How do World Cup referees communicate with players?
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- Marcel Marsowhat
- I think the use of English has little to do with the fact that football originated and grew in England. Instead, English has become the international language of football both because of an obvious need for some standardization and the fact that English has started to become the lingua franca of international business. Despite being the first language of relatively few countries, it is already spoken throughout Europe and much of the rest of the world in tourist areas and in the context of trade. You might have a hard time finding someone in Brazil who speaks Turkish, or locating a fluent Japanese speaker in Copenhagen, but there are people virtually everywhere who speak at least basic English as a second or third language.
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- 01/07/2018
- John Kelly
- One detail here unmentioned is that English now belongs to nobody in a colonial sense. Being obliged to learn German or French, for instance may engender resistance in Africa, traceable to colonial animosities. English though, once a classic colonial tongue, is no longer: nobody thinks of English as England's bailiwick, nor either Australia's or the USA's, Canada or anyone else's. So, no cultural resistance makes it easier to approach. Jus' sayin'...
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- 01/08/2018
- Demafi
- "Colonial sense" the chain that started the whole thing is still present even in the modern Africa. Assimilation that was started by the French took over pretty well in the west Africa region and most Central and west Africa speak French on the East Africa countries like Kenya the youths are losing the native language, speaking English is perceived as the person is more educated and let's not forget that if it's not for the British to give the native tribes of Kenya a common language (English) that they can communicate among each other just maybe the path would have been different :)
- 17/11/2019
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