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ORIGINAL: John O.

That's exactly the problem for me when I'm playing with other musicians. We all play flamenco, but all of us speak German, an "olé" seems so out of place, so unnatural, even when playing flamenco. ...
I don't know, sometimes I think doing hellos/goodbyes and jaleos with people who aren't Spanish is kinda wack. Seems to be the norm, though.

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Is all jaleo shouted? When you hear a vocalist saying "ehhhhhhh" with that voz ronca, does that count?

I've noticed that often instead of "Ole!" it comes out "ale" or maybe "uh-le" (English 'uh').

A couple of things to add regarding this. Besides what Ricardo said, when you hear the someone say Ole and you actually hear Ale, etc... that is all really insignificant. It just has to do w/ whatever region of Andalucia you are from. I am Spanish and can tell you that you hear differences in pronouncinations in people from Sevilla, Almeria, Jerez, etc... sometimes to a foreigner, it may not be obvious but it's there. In addition, Jaleos and or cheering someone on is very important because in Andalucia, the gypsies historically speaking, have always been persecuted and cut off from everybody else. They learned to stay in close knit communities and intrinsically understand the need to be part of a group. This cheering on is traditional has no formal rules. If during a solea verse, the singer says something that you personally feel or love the way he/she says it, then you just cheer by saying "Dale", " toque bien", etc...I've personally seen women just cry or quietly whimper during a touching phrase. It is beautiful. If some of you feel more comfortable in your own native language, do it anyway. It's all great.
Ivan