Naby Keita

[BillobShaisley]

She work in special needs? My 2 have learnt Welsh, Welsh FFS! in about 3months of speaking it exclusively at school without having any practical help from parents. Kids are like a ****ing sponge for that ****.

I became conversational in Portuguese in 4 months. Not PHD grammatically correct but enough to set the world to rights. Like I said, a footballer only needs a small selection of Vocab and as it's part of their job and they have tutors and hot and cold running assistants. Language shouldn't be holding players back on the pitch for very long.

Obviously it may affect home and social life etc but meh

[Phoenix07]

This is actually pretty funny how they have these characteristics, Dalglish used the phrase "in any way, shape or form" a lot, while Klopp obviously says "Cool" a lot

I've noticed Klopp says 'that's how it is' a lot.

[Zapater]

Rafa also loves the 'winning mentality' and 'game intelligence'.

And almost every non-English speaking manager regardless of their country/language of origin likes to say 'in a good moment'.

Woy can also be attributed 'famous point' and 'famous draw'.

[Nicey]

She work in special needs? My 2 have learnt Welsh, Welsh FFS! in about 3months of speaking it exclusively at school without having any practical help from parents. Kids are like a ****ing sponge for that ****.

I became conversational in Portuguese in 4 months. Not PHD grammatically correct but enough to set the world to rights. Like I said, a footballer only needs a small selection of Vocab and as it's part of their job and they have tutors and hot and cold running assistants. Language shouldn't be holding players back on the pitch for very long.

Obviously it may affect home and social life etc but meh

She works with children and she is currently doing a Masters in Lingustics specifically focused on language acquisition within one ethnic group. I live in a boarding school with 250 students, I think either 100 or 150 of them every year are from different countries and regions around the world, the majoriy of students are not native English speakers.

I take your point about the level of complexity required to commuinicate on a football pitch and you are right in many ways he should be up to speed. But its not a given, some people take to langauge a lot better than others, I would suggest you are one of those people and Noam Choamsky would suggest you have passed that genetic element of your cognitive abolities onto you kids.

But not everybody has that experience and sometimes its not a for a lack of trying. 2 Years to get the basics down is just about right. We have lived with people from all over the world in very close proximtiy for over 15 years, I see it and hear it first hand, all people lingustics skills are not created equal.

[Nicey]

She work in special needs? My 2 have learnt Welsh, Welsh FFS! in about 3months of speaking it exclusively at school without having any practical help from parents. Kids are like a ****ing sponge for that ****.

I became conversational in Portuguese in 4 months. Not PHD grammatically correct but enough to set the world to rights. Like I said, a footballer only needs a small selection of Vocab and as it's part of their job and they have tutors and hot and cold running assistants. Language shouldn't be holding players back on the pitch for very long.

Obviously it may affect home and social life etc but meh

She works with children and she is currently doing a Masters in Lingustics specifically focused on language acquisition within one ethnic group. I live in a boarding school with 250 students, I think either 100 or 150 of them every year are from different countries and regions around the world, the majoriy of students are not native English speakers.

I take your point about the level of complexity required to commuinicate on a football pitch and you are right in many ways he should be up to speed. But its not a given, some people take to langauge a lot better than others, I would suggest you are one of those people and Noam Choamsky would suggest you have passed that genetic element of your cognitive abolities onto you kids.

But not everybody has that experience and sometimes its not a for a lack of trying. 2 Years to get the basics down is just about right. We have lived with people from all over the world in very close proximtiy for over 15 years, I see it and hear it first hand, all people lingustics skills are not created equal and its has nothing to do with intelligence or application.


* I think

[The_weatherman]

I've noticed Klopp says 'that's how it is' a lot.

Oh, yeah, I've even started to say that a lot. I can't pull of cool though

[poorscousertommy]

Someone just tell him to download the Duolingo app on his phone. I can speak a decent bit of easy Spanish after using that **** for 10 weeks!

It really is great.

[BillobShaisley]

She works with children and she is currently doing a Masters in Lingustics specifically focused on language acquisition within one ethnic group. I live in a boarding school with 250 students, I think either 100 or 150 of them every year are from different countries and regions around the world, the majoriy of students are not native English speakers.

I take your point about the level of complexity required to commuinicate on a football pitch and you are right in many ways he should be up to speed. But its not a given, some people take to langauge a lot better than others, I would suggest you are one of those people and Noam Choamsky would suggest you have passed that genetic element of your cognitive abolities onto you kids.

But not everybody has that experience and sometimes its not a for a lack of trying. 2 Years to get the basics down is just about right. We have lived with people from all over the world in very close proximtiy for over 15 years, I see it and hear it first hand, all people lingustics skills are not created equal and its has nothing to do with intelligence or application.


* I think

Agreed not all about intelligence or intent, but certainly there is something about the approach and in practice.

Total emersion is key to speed of acquisition.

[kingfunk]

Needs to start next game. What a breath of fresh air when he came on.

[Fosterbloke]

I love Naby, I reckon he'll be huge for us this season, especially against dross like Spurs, Man Utd and Watford.

[Norbs]

We need to start beating the dross

[labourRed]

Hendo isn't in great form so he's got a great chance to make a position his own. Fingers crossed for him.

[Slinky Skills]

Was very calm and assured when he came on. We probably wouldn't have got back into the game if he'd have stayed on the bench.

[McDermotX]

Done ok when he came on....I actually think Klopp was looking for some unpredictably and/or vigour from the midfield, and he did provide that, especially as we were boxing them in in the last 15mins. Get the ball back in rotation quickly etc
Lallana as well.

Overall though, anything was an improvement on what was shown by many of the players out there today, especially in the middle. Very, very disappointing.

[Shaggy]

I'll back Henderson all day long but it's surely time to give Naby a run in that number 8 role.