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montmorency
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 Message 25 of 29
03 May 2013 at 12:50pm | IP Logged 
Serpent wrote:
shk00design wrote:
I can see this approach works to a certain extent
but you are being too restricted to sports terms used in the language.
Not
really, you learn surprisingly many "normal" words. Commentators talk about everything,
among other things the players' health (!!!), the weather, even the hobbies of the people
involved (or their jobs if you're watching Andorra:))


Especially in cricket where nothing much seems to happen for hours... :-)

The BBC "Test Match Special" on radio is something of an institution, renowned for its
usually amusing commentaries about everything, even occasionally cricket :-)
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Chung
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 Message 26 of 29
21 May 2013 at 5:49pm | IP Logged 
I stumbled on this clip of several announcers calling Canada's winning goal for hockey at the last Winter Olympics. Even without the visuals (which are very easy to find anyway), the play-by-play of the goal as done in various languages was fun for me to compare.

The announcers from France were more into it than anyone else and if I didn't know French, I would have thought that it was France that won the gold medal. Korean sounded interesting in a good way on the play whereas I couldn't help rid myself of the idea of watching a soccer game when hearing the British and Spanish announcers.
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Serpent
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 Message 27 of 29
21 May 2013 at 9:17pm | IP Logged 
Awesome post!
Hehe yeah this sounded like football :D in almost all languages tbh. Italian and Korean are maybe the only exceptions. And to some extent German, just because the word Tor was absent. Do they use Scheibe in hockey?
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Chung
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 Message 28 of 29
21 May 2013 at 11:19pm | IP Logged 
Glad that you liked it, Serpent. :-) In the description of the video, there's a link to a .mp3 on Google docs which has all of those voices and more including a Polish play-by-play and a Finnish one with Mertaranta, but none of them beat that call from France TV. Mon Dieu, that was a wild one.

I found a clip with the visuals replayed five times with a different set of broadcasters each time (yes, including the one from France :-)).

I can't tell you about Scheibe (ScheiBe?) since I've never watched a German broadcast of a hockey game.
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Duke100782
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 Message 29 of 29
02 June 2013 at 9:34am | IP Logged 
I should keep watching MMA in Chinese on the Chinese site Youku (they don't have YouTube here). I tried
it a few times, I should get back to it. I've been watching the Chinese MMA promotion RUFF. I'd really like
to learn the Chinese terminology they use, especially since I'm quite active in the sport here in China.


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