BTW, that game at Boro which was the first live game on satellite TV - can you remember which competition it was in because I can't think of it?
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I seem to remember it being said it was the first (at the time) but I checked this a while back and could find no evidence or reference to it being the first.
I recall a really good ZDS/Simod Cup match v Villa, when they were under Taylor and pretty smart. I'm sure, due to injury, we ended up with 9 men, and handled ourselves pretty well until they scored a last minute goal.
You’d be surprised. Some not as good as others but enough to have a limited conversation. The driver employed to chauffeur from the airport doesn’t speak a word of English. It’s a necessity as we supply worldwide from our site in Spain and English is the international language of choice.
Au contraire, amigo Yah= the States and Canada .Non= France, Belgium and Switz Ja ja = Switz and Germany Si si si = Italy and Spain,optional Portuguese Piece of piss
I remember my mate, who had never been abroad before, back in 1972 being amazed when he asked a woman who was sweeping up in the station in Rotterdam for directions, speaking ever so slowly to her and she answered in perfect English. As I said imagine a Dutch person asking anyone in England for directions and getting an answer never mind someone sweeping up in a station. Nearly every time we went on a tram or train kids spoke to you wanting to practice their English.
I remember it being quoted once as the rather surprising trailblazer. Probably the audience was measured in the dozens.
I was hoping to learn Spanish - they aren’t interested as they only want to converse in English. Most of my Spanish colleagues speak multiple languages fluently. There’s a Dutch chap based in our Spanish Office and he speaks 6 languages fluently.
In my first job the manager was a Spanish bloke. Spoke English that well he had spent time in Switzerland teaching English to an ambassador's son. Fluent in German, Dutch, Italian and French as well. Diplomas all over the office wall but the most prominently displayed thing was one stating he had played for Real Madrid's 5th team as a junior. Apparently that was desired by parents as Real took kids out of the state system and gave them a good education so those who didn't make it would have a good start in life.
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As it turned into a language thread - my take on things is that other countries in Europe can be better off. Some places speak English very well as they learn it from when they are very young at school. Yet at the same time these places still have their own unique language and the culture that will go with it and that will still dominate among themselves for the local people, though people who migrate there can still communicate in English in the cities they go to. We on the other hand don't have a unique language because it's the main international language of communication now. The language of our media will be understandable by most who come here. This is surely a very major difference between our country and the rest of Europe
