How to speak a language - Children say it best I had the privilege to visit Trafalgar Junior School in Richmond England recently to watch children learning Spanish with KLOO.  It was a really humbling to see such enthusiasm for the game - of both the young students and their wonderful teachers.  You can watch how the school uses KLOO here. I enjoyed going round the tables and asking what they were learning. One girl set about explaining the game to me....as children often do - she made it so simple. So this is how you make [...]

Mono v Multi-lingual Premiership football managers - who comes out on top? Update: I wrote this 3 years ago - if you look at the Premiership today (13 November 2016) it is clear - you HAVE to be multilingual to be a succssful manager. The highest ranking club is managed by a monolingual is Burnely, managed by Sean Dyche...currently 9th in the league. All above them are managed by multi-linguals. In today's top flight football, teams are typically made up of players from many different countries. For that reason it is assumed that football managers that can communicate with [...]

World class football managers learn languages At KLOO we are always banging on on about how languages can benefit many parts of your life. Your career, holidays, mental agility and even your health can all improve by learning languages. Listening to a match on BBC Radio 'Five Live' the other day, the commentators were talking about the impact of languages on the performance of football teams - or more specifically on the ability of the manager to successfully manage the football team. The commentators began by musing about how the new manager of Tottenham Hotspur, Tim Sherwood, was being held [...]