'It is I, Etienne de Nogood speakings. Leesten very carefully, I vill say ziss only vonce. I vill come down your main passage and you vill put all your valuables in my leetle duffel bag. Are zere any questions?'
Everyone started speaking at once, 'What's he saying?', 'We don't speak French!', 'You'll have to speak in English', 'What's he going to do down our back passage??', 'Why can't he say it again?'