https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bunde...mpions-league-world-cup-rb-leipzig-usmnt-5269 "For incoming Leipzig head coach Julian Nagelsmann – renowned for his ability to take players up a level – Adams is the perfect student. “He’s already watched me and told me that he is happy to train me,” the 10-time USA international said of his first meaningful conversation with the former Hoffenheim strategist. “We talked about the future, and it's going to be incredibly exciting to be coached by a great coach like him soon. It’s definitely exciting to have a coach that’s coming in that already has faith in you and has watched you. He plays a unique style of play. His attention to detail and how he focuses on each individual player on the pitch and the role that they’re going to play is unlike many coaches in the world." Sounds promising ...
I will say, I hated to see Tyler pulled from the Gold Cup due to injury, but given the changes at at RB Leipzig, with a new head coach and Marsch moving on to Salzburg, this may work out to be in Adams' best interest.
Based on his injury anyone have an estimate on when he’d be ready for full training again? Hoping his injury doesn’t derail his preseason.
Interview (in German): https://www.goal.com/de/meldungen/t...isterschaft-feiern/1wm30du2uzrhq1593g8gu9mw31 What about your German language skills? Adams: It's definitely not an easy language, but just coming over is the best way to learn German. I already know a lot of vocabulary, but just the sentence construction makes me still big problems. My biggest problem is that I do not want to speak until my German is really good. We have a lot of foreign players on the team and often speaking English is the easiest way. Even the staff in the club usually speak English with me, so I have to continue to be patient.
It def hurts your fluency when folks rather speak English to you. That's what hurt my learning Swedish back in 09. No one wanted to bother waiting for me to form a proper sentence.
Americans are used to people butchering English because we have so many immigrants, not to mention we butcher it ourselves. But in Lithuania, where my wife is from, they look at my like I’m speaking Klingon when I say something simple like “taip” (yes). My father-in-law speaks German with me instead of Lithuanian. I don’t speak German but that keeps him from hearing me speak Lithuanian. Then again, maybe it’s just to get me not to speak at all.
I learned German, and a love for soccer, primarily by getting drunk with old German dudes at bars across Germany. Granted, Tyler becoming a drunk is probably not good for his YA and USMNT career...but what I'm saying is he just needs to go for it and take the weird comments he's bound to make auf Deutsch in stride.
I learned my terrible French (my wife won't speak French with me, "for the same reason I don't run my nails down a chalkboard repeatedly") by drinking a lot of red wine, smoking filterless cigarettes and just blabbing. It led to a long Galois habit I finally broke, which is probably not ideal, but French people will talk to me for hours, since my fractured French is apparently "cute..." My kids just put their fingers in their ears when I try... The French appreciate you trying. The Dutch in the countryside too. And Germans only have patience for bad German when drinking. Say any more than "Ciao" in Italy and every Italian will commence to address you like you are a fluent as a native son.
In France -- outside of Paris anyway -- I have found that a simple bonjour and/or merci will get the locals to put me out of my misery and switch over to English. As you say, in Italy, that sort of fluency leads to a more formal conversation in the local language. But I'd rather have that than what my wife deals with in the United States. She has a PhD in English and has lived in the States for most of her life at this point, but because of her accent, she gets people asking where she's from and welcoming her to America nearly every day.
I don't mean to take this off topic, and while I never welcome people to America, I ask everyone where they're from. I now preface it with "I know we're not supposed to ask, but where did you grow up?" - because I'm really interested. Uber and Cab drivers often have the best stories. I ask Americans that too, BTW. Ok, back to the other OT discussion that helped start... I'll go look for Tyler Boyd transfer tweets as penance.... I mean Adams... ahhhahahahh. This is why we can't have nice threads!
My wife cringes when I ask people where they are originally from. I do it out of interest and a chance for some commonality(usually through soccer). She believes it is offensive but it often breaks the ice when you can find out a can driver is Ethiopian and have a 30 minute conversation about Gedion Zelalem
That is so true about Italian. I've been a few times and I speak (at most) 10 words and whenever I try they speak to me as if I'm a local. It's quite a warmfilled response.
Italians are the least bi-/multi- lingual Europeans I have encountered. Especially in the North. Given that the global influence of the Italian language is about on the scale of Serbo-Croatian, this is bizarre to me, if only for economic reasons.
A map of the "Knowledge of English in the EU" Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language_in_Europe
Great find! I’d say Milan and Rome accounts for Italy’s 30 to 49 %. I’d probably put Germany as high as Scandinavia but I’m probably not accounting for Rural Germans. I admit I encountered little English in the Black Forest but everywhere else I found Germans to speak remarkably good English. Spain I would agree with but, then, Spanish has enormous global influence. Portugal, I wouldnt know. My first trip there will be next year. France is definitely more multi- lingual than Italy. Thanks for posting. Linguistics is a hobby of mine.