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montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4830 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh
| Message 9 of 10 06 June 2012 at 12:57am | IP Logged |
Thanks for the reminder. :-) I like the point made that the programme was criticised for
being sited in Provence, a bit like expecting French people to "larn Geordie"! :-)
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| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4624 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian
| Message 10 of 10 07 June 2012 at 1:17am | IP Logged |
montmorency wrote:
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? . He seemed to carry his French audience with him, somehow or other.
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The football guy was Ron Atkinson, who was very well known as manager of Manchester United in the 80s. He did well with the French but bear in mind he worked in Spain for a while so his knowledge of Spanish probably enabled him to hit the ground running.
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