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| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4621 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 10 07 May 2012 at 12:13am | IP Logged |
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Roy Hodgson, recently appointed the national football coach for England, apparently speaks 5 languages well and has a working knowledge of another four. The much-travelled Hodgson speaks Swedish, Norwegian, German and Italian, in addition to his native English. He can also communicate in Finnish, French and Danish.
Quite an impressive haul for a native-English speaker, especially in the field of football. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| en.fr.es Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4604 days ago 15 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 3 of 10 07 May 2012 at 12:57am | IP Logged |
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He is an impresive guy I must admit I was surprised when I saw this about him. He has a
lot of experience managing abroad and I'm sure would be a interesting guy to have a drink with! Shame he has already been written off by many before a ball has been kicked... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4638 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 4 of 10 07 May 2012 at 4:34pm | IP Logged |
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And shame on the Sun, making fun of how he pronounces "r":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/02/fa-sun-front-pag e-roy-hodgson As a commentator in the Guardian wrote: Roy speaks five languages, that's four and a half more than the Sun. Edited by Ogrim on 07 May 2012 at 4:56pm 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 5 of 10 08 May 2012 at 10:00am | IP Logged |
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Any videos of him?
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| gurkan Newbie Sweden Joined 5270 days ago 3 posts - 4 votes Speaks: Swedish* | Message 6 of 10 26 May 2012 at 3:25pm | IP Logged |
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I can't find a video of him speaking Swedish but im sure I´ve seen him speak Swedish on
tv in the past. Anyway this is a video of him speaking Italian. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47-RhEj4dZM Edited by gurkan on 26 May 2012 at 3:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4827 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 7 of 10 05 June 2012 at 4:06pm | IP Logged |
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I have to say I was really impressed to hear about his linguistic abilities, although I
barely follow football at all, although I suppose, like many of us, I do start to watch a bit more when the World Cup comes along. This reminds me: there was an interesting (if gimmicky) series on British TV a few years ago, in which a handful of celebrities (fairly minor ones I think), were given the task of learning a language in a short time period, e.g. about 4 weeks, and then using it in a live TV situation. I remember one lady who did this successfully took part in a TV panel discussion in the TL (may have been French ... they may all have been doing French). Anyway, another of the candidates was some sort of footballing celeb, most probably a manager or a pundit, and he successfully managed a post-match TV interview in the TL. Anyone remember this, and who the participants were? It wasn't Roy though. Another candidate was a standup comic, whom I don't particularly like, but I had to admire his bravery. He seemed to carry his French audience with him, somehow or other. It's always fascinating when the popular media interest themselves (from time to time) in the thorny subject (in England, that is) of language acquisition. Didn't Michel Thomas take part in a documentary towards the end of his life, where he was teaching schoolchildren? Sadly, I never saw this. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JimC Senior Member United Kingdom tinyurl.com/aberdeen Joined 5546 days ago 199 posts - 317 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 10 05 June 2012 at 7:13pm | IP Logged |
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Here is a little about the programme mentioned above
Excuse my French Jim 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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