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Old 21st July 2004, 04:03 AM
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Does Ayumi know English?

Just wanted to know, cause I read somewhere that she came to America to train or something, so I was wondering whether or not she was fluent in English?

If she is, I'd rather have her cross over to the American market, than Utada...
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Old 21st July 2004, 04:16 AM
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She came to New York I believe for vocal training. If you look at the extras on the LOVEppears 2nd disk, you can see pictures (?) of her visit to New York. I have the LOVEppears CD somewhere, but can't put it in right now because my drive is busy. Plus she came to the US to film the Daybreak PV and most recently INSPIRE.

Ayu's definitely not fluent, but she does know a few key English words like "Thank you," "I love you all," "Come on," "Okay," "Hello," etc. (see MTV Asia Awards "M" performance, tour performances where she talks to the audiences.) Hikki, of course, has no problems crossing over since she's exceptionally fluent in Japanese and in English.

Or you can look at it this way: Ayu is "fluent" in engrish, not English. (see Real me PV, Everywhere Nowhere, Dolls, forgiveness, LOVEppears commercial where she says "Hamasaki Ayumi. New ah-roo-bah-mooh. Love ah-peee-haaas.") But at least she tries.

By the way, check out the "Mr. and Mrs. Donut" commercials that are all in English. Ayu says "May I?" perfectly, "No" perfectly, "Thanks" perfectly (in the commercial where she is pretending to be a guy), but says "Sankyu" ("Thank you") with a horrible engrish accent. It's kinda cool to see her talking in 2 fully English conversations, even if the commercials are only 30 seconds long.

ETA: To my dear friend below, great minds think alike. Hehe.

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Old 21st July 2004, 04:16 AM
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She's definately not fluent, but she does know a few random words (check out the lyrics of Real Me or Forgiveness, for example). Also, she said "thank you" during 2002's MTV awards.
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Old 21st July 2004, 04:27 AM
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yeah. she only knows a couple of phrases. but she tries!

it's hard to crossover from Japanese to English.
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Old 21st July 2004, 05:40 AM
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My friends cousin saw her in his university somewhere. She was surrounded by bodyguards.
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Old 21st July 2004, 05:46 AM
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I just learn something today. Thanks for the tipbit guys.
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Old 21st July 2004, 05:54 AM
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if utada crossed over with Ayumi's music..shed be better off. Ayutada..:-p
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Old 21st July 2004, 07:03 AM
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Ayu is definitely not fluent in English. knowing those little phrases don't count. I know phrases like that in other languages and that doesn't mean I'm fluent in them.
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Old 21st July 2004, 09:22 AM
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well... in my opinion.. i think she is not really fluent in speakin english.. but i think she can read english words... =\ just what i feel... is like u come to America for a period of time and not recognizing and understandin english is kind of weird to me .. =\
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Old 21st July 2004, 10:35 PM
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if utada crossed over with Ayumi's music..shed be better off. Ayutada..:-p
Yeah that's what I'm thinking...
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Old 21st July 2004, 10:59 PM
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pragmatically no.
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Old 21st July 2004, 11:04 PM
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I wonder... Does Ayu title her songs herself or does she use like an English Consultant or something?
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Old 21st July 2004, 11:14 PM
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She said in an interview that she wanted to better her English and not have to use translators anymore. I'm sure she could have a bit smaller of a conversation than BoA but not much more. I've heard her many time say things in English perfectly and many times in Engrish. I think she does the 'sank yuu' on purpose though.
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Old 21st July 2004, 11:15 PM
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sankyuu is kinda cute tho..lol
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Old 22nd July 2004, 12:09 AM
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sankyuu is so cute =o

Most japanese take english throughout, some study it on the side. Its not uncommon for a japanese person to pick up something new (even at an older age). But she dropped out of highschool so if she was taking english she might not have gotten a lot of it down.
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Old 22nd July 2004, 12:39 AM
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she know english though not very good....
and a little chinese
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Old 22nd July 2004, 12:54 AM
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Yeah, I always wondered about her song titles, seeing a huge majority of them are all in English... weird. Guess there won't be any Ayu crossing over into America anytime soon =(
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Old 22nd July 2004, 02:26 AM
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i dont think her song titles were in her vocabulary b4 the song was actually made. Someone must've made it up for her. Evolution, surreal, monochrome r very uncommon words and i dubt ayu came up wiht the words herself.
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Old 22nd July 2004, 03:05 AM
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i dont think her song titles were in her vocabulary b4 the song was actually made. Someone must've made it up for her. Evolution, surreal, monochrome r very uncommon words and i dubt ayu came up wiht the words herself.
She probably used a dictionary, they arent common words but they arent uncommon. Surreal for one, if your into art--Im sure in any langauge its almost the same?
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Old 22nd July 2004, 04:48 AM
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At least she tries^^
I think she really should improve her english.
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