retired_Elizabeth

Do coaches lose any effectiveness in their coaching ability if they don't speak the language?

i.e. an English speaker coaching in Spain?

retired_Dev C

I've noticed they usually pick up the language very quickly anyway.

retired_Newanna

Less than a season to speak fluent in a foreign language is a tad unrealistic

numtwo

Not really when they would be given intensive language training and it is a lot easier to pick up a language once you are living it. They would have to train in that language, use that language in every day life. It is quite easy to pick up languages when you live in that country and you use it every day.

retired_carol h

i usually try and have a good (native) ast man. also i always put my second nationality as Brazilian so i can speak portugese

retired_vball_star6

Living in a foreign country will help you to pick up any language quite rapidly, however, there's a difference between being fluent and being able to communicate. Also, people who speak some of the new target language already will improve more rapidly then people, like i did, move into a country where they don't have a slightest about the new language.

In real life, acquiring a new language depends on many different aspects, ranging from things you can control (amount of classes, practice time, etc) until things out of control (ex your own capacity).

In short, speaking a language fluently after one year is not impossible but it is highly unlikely, however being able to communicate is a sure can do!!

retired_ningnuo05

Imho, its a good idea if you create a multicultural squad to pick up foreign scouts, coaches and physios. I would think that Man Utd have had so much success with bringing in portugese/brazilians because of Carlos Queiroz.

I would have thought also that living in a foreign country and having to speak the language to buy things, pay bills etc etc would enable you to gain a decent knowledge of the language, at least enough for the training ground.

retired_seedless

of course, its not so much being fluent at the language but rather being fluent in football terminology. so a year is acceptable.

i mean, its not like if you get non-football related questions from journalists that you need to answer.

ever noticed how in pro tennis absolutely everyone speaks english?

retired_emily123

when u are manager of a team in a different country u learn the langage in about 6 months

retired_seedless

being a cunning linguist, i'd like to set the text language on spanish in spain, french in france.. once i did portuguese in brazil -even though i don't speak the language! its close enough to spanish to get the general idea. its fun, i'd sometimes make errors in media questions, which only made it more realistic...