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beano
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07 May 2012 at 12:13am | IP Logged 
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.
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07 May 2012 at 12:57am | IP Logged 
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...
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07 May 2012 at 4:34pm | IP Logged 
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

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08 May 2012 at 10:00am | IP Logged 
Any videos of him?
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26 May 2012 at 3:25pm | IP Logged 
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

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05 June 2012 at 4:06pm | IP Logged 
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.


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05 June 2012 at 7:13pm | IP Logged 
Here is a little about the programme mentioned above
Excuse my
French


Jim


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