{"id":833,"date":"2010-08-07T16:23:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=833"},"modified":"2010-08-07T16:23:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:23:38","slug":"language-learning-not-just-for-celebs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/07\/language-learning-not-just-for-celebs\/","title":{"rendered":"Language learning &#8211; not just for celebs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Angelina-Jolie.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Angelina-Jolie-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Angelina Jolie\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-834\" \/><\/a>Angelina Jolie recently proclaimed her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/moviestvmusic\/news\/angelina-jolie-i-love-speaking-russian-2010127 \">love for the Russian language<\/a>, but language learning isn\u2019t just for A-list movie stars \u2013 as footballers from Manchester City recently showed.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst Jolie learned Russian for her new movie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0944835\/\"><em>Salt<\/em><\/a>, the footballers picked up some Arabic for the launch of a website in the United Arab Emirates. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/sport\/football\/3082156\/Its-Manu-Arabayor.html \"><em>The Sun<\/em> reports<\/a> they had varying degrees of success, with the club\u2019s Arabic media executive saying &#8220;I was surprised how fast some of the players picked it up. Adebayor was especially good.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The footballers and Jolie had a common purpose for their learning \u2013 it was required for their work. And whilst they might not be fluent in the languages, they definitely made an effort. <\/p>\n<p>Angelina also pinpoints one of the reasons for her success \u2013 practice!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just had to practice over and over and over and I was told that I was getting it wrong a bunch of times and I had to keep practicing. (Source: US Weekly)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angelina Jolie recently proclaimed her love for the Russian language, but language learning isn\u2019t just for A-list movie stars \u2013 as footballers from Manchester City recently showed. Whilst Jolie learned Russian for her new movie, Salt, the footballers picked up some Arabic for the launch of a website in the United Arab Emirates. The Sun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,27,40,252],"tags":[554,25,821,820,822],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic","category-hints-and-tips","category-language-acquisition","category-russian","tag-language-practice","tag-languages","tag-learning-arabic","tag-learning-russian","tag-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}