When votre ami Molly Arden says "Alors! J'adore le français!" or if I, on a brille pomme jour I say "English, I abhore!" — it is not that I am unpatriotic. I am un Américain fier — enorme, you might say.
However, when je regarde THIS video of Valérie Rouzeau balancing an assiette de bonbons — golden sugary fondre of language and then poem and sound and all of it and done so deliciously — I feel like weeping. Let's all commit to use two or three languages to express ourselves. A tout le moins.
Follow the English text as she reads it in French and see if you don't fall in l'amour avec her mouchoir. Someone get Molly a hanky.
[Originally posted May 21, 2011.]