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If we get 4 great years out of a player and make a massive profit then that’s great. We now have a scouting team in place that is on top of things so there will be a conveyor belt of players that will just replace guys we sell for a fortune. I’m quite excited about the lad Vuskovic too and by the time we sell the dragon for £150 billion to Real the Croatian will be ready
All good points. It doesn’t take any intelligence to learn a language from a young age. There are plenty of extremely thick people in Korea (statistically) and Korean is hard as shit to learn.I will say, I think there has to be some kind of neuroplasticity or whatever going on if someone is taught to learn a second language from a very young age. I always get the impression that in Europe, the English-speaking world has enough influence that loads get taught it early on. From there, it seems to be easier to pick up subsequent languages.
One of the thickest guys I ever knew at uni was brilliant at Spanish, and I put that down to him growing up in Bedford with an Italian-descended family where he was taught Italian as a toddler onwards as well as, obviously, English. I think doing a foreign language from Year 7 onwards, as we do here, is far too late a starting point.
On top of that, many places are so accommodating for English speakers that we don't have as much pressure to learn anything else, too.
you had to trawl deep to come up with that one.
These comments were intended to be a compliment with also a reflection that “we only speak one language!” I get it but I think your defensiveness was misplaced.That is... how to say...
Borderline insulting to me (as also more or less of Eastern European).
What do you think we do in schools? Play with cow turds and build towers from them?
Or are we just intellectually inferior due to the latitude we pop out from our mothers vags?
I don't get it.
Why is it surprising that we speak an international language that is most universal in the whole wide world?
You do understand that most Eastern European countries are fairly small, so they don't have everything in their native language (classic literature, science papers, movies, poetry, software... well almost anything)?
It is matter of surviving in global world right now.
So stop being surprised. We do not in fact play with cow turds, we study the skills we need to do well in modern world.
No, it is not about joining EU.
It is about question if country faces towards east or towards west.
In 1991 (same year I was born) the iron curtain fell. We in Eastern Europe knew that we want to escape the claws of Russian Bear (you can see why first hand in Ukraine right now). And people started to learn English. The universal language of the West.
I think I am on the brink from where the divide goes. But people who went into school system on 80's did not have the access to it, thus they were not exposed to English early on.
But youngsters speak English very well... cause well... we have to
I wonder whether he is a groper?
Favounite fishy pun…..RADU ARRIVES IN LONDON….work it out.
Try angling. It's very relaxing.
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"Shin", confirmed by my Romanian chum here.
It’s sheen rather than shin but I’m just going to call him Drago."Shin", confirmed by my Romanian chum here.
I've told him he's now only my second favourite Romanian, he hasn't taken the news well
He looks like a nonce magician.Here he is. Florin Manea, Radu's agent. Looks very honest & trustworthy.
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That is... how to say...
Borderline insulting to me (as also more or less of Eastern European).
What do you think we do in schools? Play with cow turds and build towers from them?
Or are we just intellectually inferior due to the latitude we pop out from our mothers vags?
I don't get it.
Why is it surprising that we speak an international language that is most universal in the whole wide world?
You do understand that most Eastern European countries are fairly small, so they don't have everything in their native language (classic literature, science papers, movies, poetry, software... well almost anything)?
It is matter of surviving in global world right now.
So stop being surprised. We do not in fact play with cow turds, we study the skills we need to do well in modern world
No, it is not about joining EU.
It is about question if country faces towards east or towards west.
In 1991 (same year I was born) the iron curtain fell. We in Eastern Europe knew that we want to escape the claws of Russian Bear (you can see why first hand in Ukraine right now). And people started to learn English. The universal language of the West.
I think I am on the brink from where the divide goes. But people who went into school system on 80's did not have the access to it, thus they were not exposed to English early on.
But youngsters speak English very well... cause well... we have to
I suppose the fact that the word stress is on the last syllable lengthens the vowel sound, making it closer to /i:n/ than /in/. The same thing happens in Spanish.
I swear to fuck I thought I was back in school!
