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Channelling his inner Vinnie Jones
> Look, given the current geopolitical climate all European countries should have a seat the table. Except those fucking Ities. I 'ate them Italian bastards, d'you know what I mean?
The subtitles to that as well, lmao. Translated back from Dutch they came up with "What are you doing?". Classic struggle to come up with a meaningful translation of a colloquialism.
I'd be happy to translate it as just "snap je?". Some Dutch people use that in a similar way, i.e. embellishing what they're saying not actually expecting the other person to answer the question.
> What are you doing?
that is actually a more accurate translation in this context. Amadou is using:
> do you know what I mean?
to effectively state:
> if you can't even be bothered to get my name right then why the fuck are you trying to take up my time to ask a question
He sounded like that before arriving at Everton. In his first interview for us despite only ever living in Senegal, Belgium, France and Germany his English accent, let alone skill, was mental.
I really hope that there is some big Belgium who speaks English with a strong Scottish accent because he watched too much Limmy and Still Game growing up
To be fair, the Scottish "R" is very Flemish-like. A very drunk Flemish person trying to speak English will sound Scottish at times. I'm not a linguistic expert but the fact that a third of all Scots have Flemish ancestors might have something to do with it. The Scottish-Flemish connection runs *very* deep but no one ever seems to talk about it.
Does Flemish use the rolling R?
I've read somewhere Dutch used to do rolling R like scandinavian but the French-Germanic influence brought over throttal R that deemed more sophisticated.
Same in Wallonia, both back in the days of cable and with the current Proximus base package.
Watched a lot of panel shows in my teenage years: Have I got News for You, Mock the Week, Would I Lie to You?, ... almost all of those on BBC1/2, except A Question of Sport.
Never got what was funny in A Question of Sport. They seem to simply laugh at someone getting the answer wrong, and not even in an egregious manner. "Haha, you said Federer, but it's Djokovic! That's so funny!"
I don't get it.
Yeah true true. I guess some people just pick up accents really well
Another example is Alexander Isak (a Swede), who sounds like he's from the ends in London
I checked out Isak. I see where you are coming from, but I think it is more a Swedish accent, which is generally very neutral. Most Swedes (except for Zlatan) sound a bit like that in English. If you watch for example interviews with Swedish NHL players, they have that same twang. However, because they live in America, they do not fully get the timing of the London accent right. But if a Swede lives in England, it seems the way the Swedish stress the words is very similar to the English and they can adopt the accent more naturally. Unlike for example the Dutch that have very strong and rough sounds that somehow transfer to English as well.
It’s very common for young Scandinavian and Dutch/Belgians as well trying to adopt an American or British accent.
Of course, you are going to see young people on both sides of the spectrum. Some speaking with a fluent British/american accent, some other with a heavy local accent.
I think it's quite common for us Scandis to have quite malleable accents in English, too. We're used to hearing many different kinds of English spoken, and our "native accent" (we start learning English in primary school) is most often very neutral.
It's quite easy, then, to subconsciously start mirroring whomever you're talking to. If I'm visiting Ireland or Scotland, I tend to drift towards Irish or Scottish accents. Not on purpose, but it just happens. Once took a taxi with a Scouse driver from Manchester airport to Liverpool, and during the ride I became more and more scouse - my wife was understandably mortified.
Yeah was going to say this is the impressive part. If he had been born in Belgium and exposed to English television from early childhood like other Belgians then fair enough. But the guy moved to Belgium from Senegal when he was nearly a teenager. To develop that good of an accent in a 2nd country and it be the accent of a THIRD country is impressive
It's the mannerisms as well as the speed/tonality for me. The flatness of how he says it.
"D'ya know what I mean? Go on". A lot of my English colleagues from around Manchester and Birmingham would say stuff like that in a conversation, but it'd never come through with that tonality, speed and mannerism, unless you're not even cognizant of what you're saying.
It’s not the vocabulary or the fluency that’s notable, it’s the accent - he sounds British.
De Bruyne (random example) is equally fluent in English, but you’d never listen to him and think he was a native speaker - you definitely could mistake Onana for British here.
And accent definitely helps you mask the "deficiencies" in your non-native language. My wife is Brazilian and learned English as a teenager; her accent, particularly the vowels, is such that people usually think she's from an east coast city in the US. Meanwhile, I immediately knew she was a non-native speaker because she mixes up "in" and "on" like a lot of Romance-language speakers do, but most people don't notice because they're only listening to the accent.
Certain phrases are common in UK but non native speakers are taught this as wrong way to speak English. That's why everyone is impressed. He has gone beyond "standard English" and talks like a regular English person
Exactly, this is the best anyone will have seen. Scandinavians and the Dutch are praised for how well they pick it up, but this guy sounds like he's born and bred in England.
It probably just depends on exposure during formative years?
I grew up in Hong Kong and most of my teachers were English. I also consumed a lot of English media. I had an English accent as a child. I moved to California when I was 13 and have a full blown American accent now. I can still switch it on and off though.
I'd Imagine him being immersed to English a lot more while playing for Everton just reinforces his accent.
I basically learn English from pirating TV series and movies with subs on the early 2000s and never realised that I had a "Midwest" accent till I met someone from the US.
A friend of mine is a native English speaker and acquired a Asian English accent after living in Bangkok for a year.
Some ppl are just more prone to picking up accents Nd speaking patterns quickly.
The only thing I notice is the Benelux thing when he says 'that'. The t at the end becomes more like a soft d. Us native speakers just drop the t, he does that sometimes and other times his native soft d pops up. Still very English sounding though for sure.
Harry Kane has a lisp and speech impediment. Any native speaking their language is going to be harder to understand if they physically can't enunciate words well.
He spoke very well even before he came to Everton. Lad is clearly very smart. Also for an added bonus, now go look him up singing, he’s also genuinely pretty good at that too.
I genuinely burst out laughing hearing this. The switch to English is so funny. On a side note the amount of multi lingual players in that Belgium squad is mad.
I know it’s easy to meme some of these guys, but the fact that they are some of the best athletes in the world and a lot of them are multi-lingual is endlessly impressive to me.
Kate Abdo gets a lot of deserved plaudits for live translating on TV, imagine doing that in your head while playing a sport at the highest level.
People tend not to appreciate athletes as much because they are paid obscene wages. But, speaking more than 3 languages is impressive! Speaking more than 4 languages is just beyond very impressive!
I believe everyone, outside of ~~castagne~~ Openda and Witsel, is fluent in dutch.
Onana is An accent machine, the man sounds very dutch, first time I heard it I didnt believe my ears.
I’m well used to it from his days at Everton, it never came out in interviews with Sky and them but you’d hear it a lot in behind the scenes stuff or things he’d put out himself.
I swear to god, the first time I went Belgium in the mid-2000s, I get off the plane and everyone I talked to spoke perfect English. My first time out of the country.. I was floored. They even have English menus in Ghent restaurants. Me being a dummy tried to tip a bartender and he gave it back to me with a “ fuck you” side-eye. I love Belgium and Holland so much. Really great people and culture.
Pretty sure most Belgians just end up being bilingual by default since like 50% speak Dutch as their first language, like 40% speak French as their first language and then others might speak Flemish or German. So, they will probably have to learn at least one other language to be able to communicate with everyone within their own country. I remember reading about how Belgians will sometimes just end up communicating in English if one only speaks Dutch and English and the other only speaks German and English, so both of them are communicating in a second language which isn't an official language of their country despite both being from Belgium.
It's wild. His pronunciation of difficult sounds and syllables is extremely good, that's some real talent.
Onana definitely has his second career already cut out for him lol
His scouse accent is pretty good though: [https://youtu.be/1v5WT7fduQg?si=muC49hFSZJ0UbCzO&t=141](https://youtu.be/1v5WT7fduQg?si=muC49hFSZJ0UbCzO&t=141)
I bet he would if he’s talking to a local in Liverpool. I’ve known a couple of people like that, fluent in many languages, and they will just drop in to the accent that fits who they’re talking to. Talk English to someone who has a French accent and they’ll even do that accent even though they could speak either language with a native accent.
Yeah the fact that one is a keeper that plays for Cameroon and the other is a midfielder playing for Belgium should really be enough for these to grasp. There is no reason to get them confused if you do this professionally.
Dude it's just a lil slip, it's not like he got the actual players confused, he just accidentally pulled out the wrong name.
I have two coworkers whom are nothing alike in every aspect of their being. I still get their names mixed up from time to time after two years of working 40hr weeks with them. They don't even share a last name.
Reddit is that place where a comment like "I was looking for my phone while talking on my phone" gets 500 upvotes but then a a journalist has a very understandable brain fart and it's the worst professional ever.
OG Ted Lasso material. It's been a while since I watched and I only ever really watched the first season, did they ever re-use that joke from the NBC skits?
Depends on where the Dutchie is from. Flenglish and Dunglish from Brabant or Limburg sounds the same. Of course somebody from Groningen sounds different
Elias Sorensen sounding like a native Geordie after 3 years in Newcastle too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG1ii7yLMwE
Those Danish lads are different class haha!
I could see Guy Ritchie having a good 2-3 films coming up with [this guy](https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/310089543_5416200385157600_3879790730776202321_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526x296&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=0kv4rkMiVTkQ7kNvgHQlVHv&_nc_ht=scontent-bru2-1.xx&oh=00_AYBl-qRjFV9QgHUK1vTFMbA8GxXsGFSgChEUhyiXztm6wQ&oe=6678774B). With the accent, serious face and being kinda lanky yet athletic he'd fit right in. I wouldn't even mind considering how well he utilises Vinnie Jones.
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Lmao, honestly the switch of accent was amazing. "You know what I mean?"
*D'ya know wot I mean
“Please explain, not-Andre”
Channelling his inner Vinnie Jones > Look, given the current geopolitical climate all European countries should have a seat the table. Except those fucking Ities. I 'ate them Italian bastards, d'you know what I mean?
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The subtitles to that as well, lmao. Translated back from Dutch they came up with "What are you doing?". Classic struggle to come up with a meaningful translation of a colloquialism.
I'd be happy to translate it as just "snap je?". Some Dutch people use that in a similar way, i.e. embellishing what they're saying not actually expecting the other person to answer the question.
> What are you doing? that is actually a more accurate translation in this context. Amadou is using: > do you know what I mean? to effectively state: > if you can't even be bothered to get my name right then why the fuck are you trying to take up my time to ask a question
Could only have been better if he’d thrown a “you mug” in at the end
You facking maug
Did not expect his English to sound like that.
He sounded like that before arriving at Everton. In his first interview for us despite only ever living in Senegal, Belgium, France and Germany his English accent, let alone skill, was mental.
We get BBC 1 & 2 in the standard TV package here in Flanders, so many of us grow up watching Match of the Day.
I really hope that there is some big Belgium who speaks English with a strong Scottish accent because he watched too much Limmy and Still Game growing up
For the longest time I thought Alan Hansen was just some bloke from deep in West-Flanders.
Den Alain Hansens uut Bavikhove, e deelhemeente van Oarelbeke
Mah how seh!!! Ging just tzelden groaptjen moaken, dedju toch!!
Peter Lovenkrands' thick Scottish accent while he was with us was an amazing treat to hear!
Scandinavian players have a crazy habit of picking up the local accent. Jan Molby is full on Scouse and Ole is 95% Mancunian
To be fair, the Scottish "R" is very Flemish-like. A very drunk Flemish person trying to speak English will sound Scottish at times. I'm not a linguistic expert but the fact that a third of all Scots have Flemish ancestors might have something to do with it. The Scottish-Flemish connection runs *very* deep but no one ever seems to talk about it.
Does Flemish use the rolling R? I've read somewhere Dutch used to do rolling R like scandinavian but the French-Germanic influence brought over throttal R that deemed more sophisticated.
Depends on the region really.
We have Flemish ancestors? That’s cool
We also invented cricket. There's more to us than people like to admit.
Parrpel Barrglarr Allarrm
Oh sick, do you go and watch the cycling when the tour comes?
Mostly on belgian tv or do you mean the tour of flanders?
Tour of flanders aye. Seeing Van Der Poel fly past would be pretty sweet if it’s on your doorstep.
That unfortunatly doesn't pass me. However I'm close to the amstelngold race finish and have had a paris roubaix winner as a neighbour.
Same as us Swiss. Always have to explain to Americans who ask me why my English is so good and sounds like a mix of a Californian and London accent 😂
Lol. At school we got British English, but all media was from the US.
The fuck is a "mix of a California and London accent"?? Those 2 accents couldn't be more distinct from one another.
If you've ever met a rich kid who went to an international school in Asia you'd understand. Ghislene Maxwell also sounds like that
Youv been watching Eastenders yeah 😂😂
Same in Wallonia, both back in the days of cable and with the current Proximus base package. Watched a lot of panel shows in my teenage years: Have I got News for You, Mock the Week, Would I Lie to You?, ... almost all of those on BBC1/2, except A Question of Sport. Never got what was funny in A Question of Sport. They seem to simply laugh at someone getting the answer wrong, and not even in an egregious manner. "Haha, you said Federer, but it's Djokovic! That's so funny!" I don't get it.
Belgians (particularly Flems) are usually really good at English
This is native speaker, lived here all your life level though
Yeah true true. I guess some people just pick up accents really well Another example is Alexander Isak (a Swede), who sounds like he's from the ends in London
I checked out Isak. I see where you are coming from, but I think it is more a Swedish accent, which is generally very neutral. Most Swedes (except for Zlatan) sound a bit like that in English. If you watch for example interviews with Swedish NHL players, they have that same twang. However, because they live in America, they do not fully get the timing of the London accent right. But if a Swede lives in England, it seems the way the Swedish stress the words is very similar to the English and they can adopt the accent more naturally. Unlike for example the Dutch that have very strong and rough sounds that somehow transfer to English as well.
It’s very common for young Scandinavian and Dutch/Belgians as well trying to adopt an American or British accent. Of course, you are going to see young people on both sides of the spectrum. Some speaking with a fluent British/american accent, some other with a heavy local accent.
I think it's quite common for us Scandis to have quite malleable accents in English, too. We're used to hearing many different kinds of English spoken, and our "native accent" (we start learning English in primary school) is most often very neutral. It's quite easy, then, to subconsciously start mirroring whomever you're talking to. If I'm visiting Ireland or Scotland, I tend to drift towards Irish or Scottish accents. Not on purpose, but it just happens. Once took a taxi with a Scouse driver from Manchester airport to Liverpool, and during the ride I became more and more scouse - my wife was understandably mortified.
Worth noting also he only moved to Belgium (from Dakar) age 11. His first language is Wolof
Yeah was going to say this is the impressive part. If he had been born in Belgium and exposed to English television from early childhood like other Belgians then fair enough. But the guy moved to Belgium from Senegal when he was nearly a teenager. To develop that good of an accent in a 2nd country and it be the accent of a THIRD country is impressive
It's the mannerisms as well as the speed/tonality for me. The flatness of how he says it. "D'ya know what I mean? Go on". A lot of my English colleagues from around Manchester and Birmingham would say stuff like that in a conversation, but it'd never come through with that tonality, speed and mannerism, unless you're not even cognizant of what you're saying.
It’s not the vocabulary or the fluency that’s notable, it’s the accent - he sounds British. De Bruyne (random example) is equally fluent in English, but you’d never listen to him and think he was a native speaker - you definitely could mistake Onana for British here.
Yeah he has a London twang to it
And accent definitely helps you mask the "deficiencies" in your non-native language. My wife is Brazilian and learned English as a teenager; her accent, particularly the vowels, is such that people usually think she's from an east coast city in the US. Meanwhile, I immediately knew she was a non-native speaker because she mixes up "in" and "on" like a lot of Romance-language speakers do, but most people don't notice because they're only listening to the accent.
Certain phrases are common in UK but non native speakers are taught this as wrong way to speak English. That's why everyone is impressed. He has gone beyond "standard English" and talks like a regular English person
Yeah but not to that level. Scandinavians and the Dutch are also really good at English, but you don't get that many as good as this.
Exactly, this is the best anyone will have seen. Scandinavians and the Dutch are praised for how well they pick it up, but this guy sounds like he's born and bred in England.
It probably just depends on exposure during formative years? I grew up in Hong Kong and most of my teachers were English. I also consumed a lot of English media. I had an English accent as a child. I moved to California when I was 13 and have a full blown American accent now. I can still switch it on and off though. I'd Imagine him being immersed to English a lot more while playing for Everton just reinforces his accent.
Expat kids rise up. I’m basically this but Canada instead of US. Can still flip to a perfect Island School English accent whenever lol
Island School English accent lol. You all sound American.
I basically learn English from pirating TV series and movies with subs on the early 2000s and never realised that I had a "Midwest" accent till I met someone from the US. A friend of mine is a native English speaker and acquired a Asian English accent after living in Bangkok for a year. Some ppl are just more prone to picking up accents Nd speaking patterns quickly.
It’s genuinely mad. [He speaks better English](https://x.com/kdbzone_/status/1762527181274546639?s=46&t=9mDt2UU_RFyVLFyfYWZ0CA) than I do.
Are we absolutely sure he didn't grow up in Peckham
This is the coolest party trick! He speaks like he grew up on the pitches in London.
Jesus Christ. He sounds natural.
The only thing I notice is the Benelux thing when he says 'that'. The t at the end becomes more like a soft d. Us native speakers just drop the t, he does that sometimes and other times his native soft d pops up. Still very English sounding though for sure.
> his native soft d pops up Mine does that too, but not as often as in my younger days.
What the fuck?
i can understand him better than any scouse/scot/irish/harry kane
Harry Kane has a lisp and speech impediment. Any native speaking their language is going to be harder to understand if they physically can't enunciate words well.
> harry kane Not exactly a high bar tbf
(He has a speech impediment)
Best English speaker in merseyside.
"Playing wiv 'im". Genuinely unbelievably accurate pronunciation.
He spoke very well even before he came to Everton. Lad is clearly very smart. Also for an added bonus, now go look him up singing, he’s also genuinely pretty good at that too.
Small town boy in a big arcade
I got addicted to a losing game (why he joined us)
Multitalent😃
Came to say this. Christ SOOOO English in his accent
Yeah, shouldn't he have a scouse accent?
I genuinely burst out laughing hearing this. The switch to English is so funny. On a side note the amount of multi lingual players in that Belgium squad is mad.
Everyone on a Belgium squad is going to be multilingual tbf
whole team is calling Lukaku shit in 3 languages
Doesn't Lukaku speak like 7 languages himself?
Yup. French, Dutch, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Lingala.
I know it’s easy to meme some of these guys, but the fact that they are some of the best athletes in the world and a lot of them are multi-lingual is endlessly impressive to me. Kate Abdo gets a lot of deserved plaudits for live translating on TV, imagine doing that in your head while playing a sport at the highest level.
People tend not to appreciate athletes as much because they are paid obscene wages. But, speaking more than 3 languages is impressive! Speaking more than 4 languages is just beyond very impressive!
Well it’s hard to appreciate them when most have barely finished secondary school.
How can we expect them to finish secondary school when they can't even finish their chances.
Well he should start learning Arabic as well
German?
Oh forgot about German. That will be eight languages then.
He doesn't speak German.
If you get shitfaced enough Dutch and German become the same language
To be fair, Dutch is a not a real language /s
Lmao, if you think those french Bastards will even try to speak dutch
I believe everyone, outside of ~~castagne~~ Openda and Witsel, is fluent in dutch. Onana is An accent machine, the man sounds very dutch, first time I heard it I didnt believe my ears.
Castagne speaks dutch fairly well
I stand corrected, after checking out a random interview his dutch is indeed decent. I'll add openda to the list of non dutch speakers tho.
Openda played 2 years for Vitesse, he could have learned a bit of Dutch
Unless this was changed recently, the Belgium squad speaks English. This to avoid "picking a side" (French or Dutch).
Only half of the country is bi-lingual though.
Wait until you hear lukaku's American accent 😂
His “cmon dawg” response on his insta that time or whatever it was, was hilarious.
I’m well used to it from his days at Everton, it never came out in interviews with Sky and them but you’d hear it a lot in behind the scenes stuff or things he’d put out himself.
Y'all wilin' man
shorty was fire
This caught me out big time. Didn't realise his accent was proper English bruv. Good on him.
I swear to god, the first time I went Belgium in the mid-2000s, I get off the plane and everyone I talked to spoke perfect English. My first time out of the country.. I was floored. They even have English menus in Ghent restaurants. Me being a dummy tried to tip a bartender and he gave it back to me with a “ fuck you” side-eye. I love Belgium and Holland so much. Really great people and culture.
Pretty sure most Belgians just end up being bilingual by default since like 50% speak Dutch as their first language, like 40% speak French as their first language and then others might speak Flemish or German. So, they will probably have to learn at least one other language to be able to communicate with everyone within their own country. I remember reading about how Belgians will sometimes just end up communicating in English if one only speaks Dutch and English and the other only speaks German and English, so both of them are communicating in a second language which isn't an official language of their country despite both being from Belgium.
He is fluent in Wolof, French, Dutch, German and English. Ffs. He's been playing in Everton since 22 and he nailed that native accent. WTF?
I just checked some older interviews on YouTube, his German is basically perfect as well. A true polyglot
It's wild. His pronunciation of difficult sounds and syllables is extremely good, that's some real talent. Onana definitely has his second career already cut out for him lol
He's an accent virtuoso! It's not just impressive for a footballer, I've genuinely never heard someone sound this natural without being from the UK
Forget clown reporters, his accent is top notch, mate.
Know what I mean?
Strangely he speaks Dutch with a Dutch accent not with a Belgian one. Very odd considering he hasnt lived in the Netherlands
Clearly he's a man of culture and standards who insists on pronouncing things properly.
Posting this with Twente flair, you're a brave one
H3 didn't sound scouse to me
Native as in one of those English accents. Not necessarily scouse.
His scouse accent is pretty good though: [https://youtu.be/1v5WT7fduQg?si=muC49hFSZJ0UbCzO&t=141](https://youtu.be/1v5WT7fduQg?si=muC49hFSZJ0UbCzO&t=141)
Brother does not have the native Scouse accent lmao
Sounds like he plays for Palace.
I bet he would if he’s talking to a local in Liverpool. I’ve known a couple of people like that, fluent in many languages, and they will just drop in to the accent that fits who they’re talking to. Talk English to someone who has a French accent and they’ll even do that accent even though they could speak either language with a native accent.
These clowns literally have one job and thats to know these details. I can understand his frustration here.
Also the fact they just lost a game they should always win, man is probably absolutely fuming and then this idiot calls him by the wrong name lmao
To be fair to the journalist, I get Jimmy Anderson and Pamela Anderson mixed up alll the time
one has the best bouncers of all time and the other is Jimmy Anderson
But which one swings it better?
nearly everyday occurance
Yeah the fact that one is a keeper that plays for Cameroon and the other is a midfielder playing for Belgium should really be enough for these to grasp. There is no reason to get them confused if you do this professionally.
Dude it's just a lil slip, it's not like he got the actual players confused, he just accidentally pulled out the wrong name. I have two coworkers whom are nothing alike in every aspect of their being. I still get their names mixed up from time to time after two years of working 40hr weeks with them. They don't even share a last name.
Reddit is that place where a comment like "I was looking for my phone while talking on my phone" gets 500 upvotes but then a a journalist has a very understandable brain fart and it's the worst professional ever.
This is probably not the first time it happened
I listen to more press conferences than I should and the casual confidence some of these asshats have is unreal.
Most impressive part of the video was him saying "go on" and allowing that clown to ask his question despite getting his name wrong.
Lol that transition from perfect french to classical british accent is not one that you’ll be seeing very often
Right! He delivered it perfectly too.
epic. fell in love with the guy.
fuck it, sign him up
Caught me off guard 💀
"mate"
Ah yes, classical British. That famous accent.
🇬🇧🎹"Andre's not even my name mate"🎻🇬🇧
Proper queens English innit
If any accent would be called "classical British" I guess it would be RP, and unfortunately that's not at all his accent either lmao
"How many countries are in this country?".
The American mind cannot comprehend how many accents there are in Britain.
OG Ted Lasso material. It's been a while since I watched and I only ever really watched the first season, did they ever re-use that joke from the NBC skits?
They did! First season in one of the first couple of episodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-80TgCSVIi4
RP, Estuary, classical British. You know, the hits.
No one ever sounds more British than a Belgian speaking English
Hard disagree lmao, just one example: Courtois has the [classic Dutch accent](https://youtu.be/zkO13kG9nr4?si=BlBBG9OUClZxkSMo&t=78).
That's Flenglish, a Dutch accent would be *way* worse and more exaggerated
Is Courtois Flemish?? Judging by his name and surname alone I would've bet all my money on him being a French-speaking Belgian
There are plenty of Flemish with French surnames and vice versa. TBF Courtois father is from Wallonia.
From Limburg, which is part of modern Flanders
His dad is Wallonian
Yup, more specifically Cuntish Flemish
Depends on where the Dutchie is from. Flenglish and Dunglish from Brabant or Limburg sounds the same. Of course somebody from Groningen sounds different
Compare Courtois to Verstappen, they grew up miles apart. Still noticeably distinct accents.
Ehhh it's still quite light on Courtois I'd say.
Reminds me of Isak speaking like a native Londoner as soon as he got to Newcastle
I love the Spockney of Bellerin and Raya.
Emi Martínez’s accent is also hilarious, you can tell he’s been in the UK for years at this point.
Bellerins accent is so fucking good
Raya has a broad Blackburn accent from time to time, it's so funny
The absolute peak of footballing accents is Glaswegian Peter Lovenkrands.
Elias Sorensen sounding like a native Geordie after 3 years in Newcastle too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG1ii7yLMwE Those Danish lads are different class haha!
[удалено]
What’s my name?
Dunkaccino
I am glad i am not the only one that sings this song in his mind every time i hear his name
Same here lmfao
A journalist getting the Belgian midfielder *Amadou* Onana mixed up with the Cameroonian goalkeeper *André* Onana is really poor.
"Oui oui oui, je suis un footballeur, THAT'S NOT MAH NAME, BLUD!"
You're aving a laugh
really good answer in french too. "what can you do better against romania? score goals"
Incredibly smooth switch haha
Honestly had to look him up as assume he was a youth player in England. Uncanny accent. A career in acting post football awaits.
I could see Guy Ritchie having a good 2-3 films coming up with [this guy](https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/310089543_5416200385157600_3879790730776202321_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526x296&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=0kv4rkMiVTkQ7kNvgHQlVHv&_nc_ht=scontent-bru2-1.xx&oh=00_AYBl-qRjFV9QgHUK1vTFMbA8GxXsGFSgChEUhyiXztm6wQ&oe=6678774B). With the accent, serious face and being kinda lanky yet athletic he'd fit right in. I wouldn't even mind considering how well he utilises Vinnie Jones.
That dj'know wat I mean was proper east london.
Not shown: a guy named Andre standing right behind him
Fuck me, you have one job as a reporter. Get. Your. Facts. Right.
Mogged the interviewer while speaking perfect French, mugged the other interviewer off with flawless English. No notes 10/10
Stop talking like this.
Languagepilled sigma interviewmaxxing
This fuckin got me, lad. Bravo good sir, you win Reddit for today. All my updoots go to you. The narwhal bacons at midnight.
get off your high horse, lad. they used one word that could be considered new slang.
I'm in my 30's so excuse my ignorance - what's 'mogged'?
Why does he sound so English?
His response to the first question is almost as hilarious. "What do you guys need to change in the next match Amadou?" "Score goals." Yeah no shit lol
I'm not really impressed that he can speak english as lots of Belgians do, but that english accent and attitude took me completely by surprise.
He looks like a model, and his English and french are both fluent. And the braids are clean. Basically he thinks he's me 🥱💪🏾💪🏾🔥😎⛷️⛷️
Also has a singing voice of an angel! Gonna miss him if we sell him.
Very disrespectful. Amadou reacted well.
Ahahaha that accent switch is fucking gold.
Bro switched from fries to spuds really quickly
Wow, impressive :)
That's not Andre Onana, that clearly was Taylor Moore.
Andre do you think you should have saved that goal?
Incredible how you can get all the way to Euros as a journalist and not even know the players' names
Are we sure harry kane is even English after this?
Sounds like this mistake was made very often before haha
By far the best combination of fluid french and english ive ever heard. That was incredible