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Me too! Different mental exercise for different people, I guess. Good luck with the languages, I'll concentrate on my various brain stimuli. :thumbsup:

Ah well, you've got an app and an Ipad, so you're already two jumps ahead of me! You probably still have a passport too! Hey ho - I guess I'm where I am!

Maybe it's changed since I last tried out my schoolboy French - although I can categorically state my experiences were different to yours. Anyway too late now - my schoolboy French is too far in the past, and I don't think I could assimilate a new language now.

I should hope they have had lessons! And I never said that fluency was easy - but there are useful levels of communication below the level of fluency (which probably only comes when you start thinking in the new language, as opposed to thinking in your own language and mentally translating - and...

That's a regular problem for us English. It's not entirely our fault that collectively we're not good at speaking foreign languages - whenever we try to practice our rudimentary language skills, the other person replies in English and bang goes any chance of improving our skills!

Learning a language in classes is a whole different beast from learning a language by living in the country where it is spoken, with work-mates and employers who speak it. In Bissouma's case (or any footballer's), no doubt some lessons as well would be useful - and IMHO they damn well should be...

It's the Irish way.................................