English

[seafoid]

I was watching Klopp 
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jan/12/jurgen-klopp-liverpool-claude-puel-southampton-efl-cup

Would any English manager be able to give a speech to German media in German ?

Simon Kuper in the FT meanwhile
https://www.ft.com/content/223af71a-d853-11e6-944b-e7eb37a6aa8e

Britain has its own problems with English. Its twin centres of political power, Westminster and the tabloid newspapers, are almost entirely monolingual. Brits therefore voted for Brexit blithely unaware of how other European countries would respond. The Brexiter fantasy broadly went like this: "We'll stop immigration, keep free trade with Europe, and sign whizzo new trade deals with everybody else."Britain does have a coterie of multilingual experts (mostly diplomats) who knew this wouldn't fly. But precisely because these people understand European thinking, they are distrusted by Westminster and the tabloids. A case in point is last week's resignation of Sir Ivan Rogers, the UK's permanent representative to the European Union.Just as Donald Trump's people have ignored the US state department, the UK's Foreign Office — the one bit of the British state packed with foreign knowledge — has been sidelined ahead of the Brexit negotiations. Instead, the new department for exiting the EU will lead. Its boss, David Davis, is the man who said the Germans would give the UK a good deal because they sell cars in Britain.

"The British political class is astonishingly ignorant of the EU, whether they are pro it or against," says Charles Grant of the Centre for European Reform.The European principals in the Brexit talks understand Britain rather better. Grant continues: "They do watch the BBC, they can read English, they do read tweets of what the Daily Mail is saying." Even Angela Merkel, schooled in East Germany, taught herself English by reading the communist Morning Star newspaper.The US has just been outsmarted by foreigners it didn't understand. Britain may be next.

[Boycey]

Roy Hodgson, Paul Clement?

[armaghniac]

There is some truth in this, but only some, the British deliberately choose not to understand other people, it isn't just a question of language. They have feck all understanding of this island and it isn't a language problem.

[Take Your Points]

There is some truth in this, but only some, the British deliberately choose not to understand other people, it isn't just a question of language. They have feck all understanding of this island and it isn't a language problem.

Not what Barry McElduff and SF have been saying all week.

[Avondhu star]

I was watching Klopp 
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jan/12/jurgen-klopp-liverpool-claude-puel-southampton-efl-cup

Would any English manager be able to give a speech to German media in German ?

Simon Kuper in the FT meanwhile
https://www.ft.com/content/223af71a-d853-11e6-944b-e7eb37a6aa8e

Britain has its own problems with English. Its twin centres of political power, Westminster and the tabloid newspapers, are almost entirely monolingual. Brits therefore voted for Brexit blithely unaware of how other European countries would respond. The Brexiter fantasy broadly went like this: "We'll stop immigration, keep free trade with Europe, and sign whizzo new trade deals with everybody else."Britain does have a coterie of multilingual experts (mostly diplomats) who knew this wouldn't fly. But precisely because these people understand European thinking, they are distrusted by Westminster and the tabloids. A case in point is last week's resignation of Sir Ivan Rogers, the UK's permanent representative to the European Union.Just as Donald Trump's people have ignored the US state department, the UK's Foreign Office — the one bit of the British state packed with foreign knowledge — has been sidelined ahead of the Brexit negotiations. Instead, the new department for exiting the EU will lead. Its boss, David Davis, is the man who said the Germans would give the UK a good deal because they sell cars in Britain.

"The British political class is astonishingly ignorant of the EU, whether they are pro it or against," says Charles Grant of the Centre for European Reform.The European principals in the Brexit talks understand Britain rather better. Grant continues: "They do watch the BBC, they can read English, they do read tweets of what the Daily Mail is saying." Even Angela Merkel, schooled in East Germany, taught herself English by reading the communist Morning Star newspaper.The US has just been outsmarted by foreigners it didn't understand. Britain may be next.

If the English manager could give the speech in English it would be a good start. "Sick as a parrot" doesn't count

[LeoMc]

Steve McClaren speaks pretty passable Dutch.


It would be as good as Uncle Albert's German.