Interesting to see a three presenter shot at the top of the programme rather than close up of the two main presenters or single head shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMwcKziD7Y0
Was this done by accident? It doesn't look like Sean was necessary to be in the shot, and the name tag wasn't changed either. They did very quickly cut back to the standard two-presenter shot when they went to the boxes. Perhaps Camera 2 wasn't ready.
Interesting to see a three presenter shot at the top of the programme rather than close up of the two main presenters or single head shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMwcKziD7Y0
Interesting to see a three presenter shot at the top of the programme rather than close up of the two main presenters or single head shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMwcKziD7Y0
Interesting how?
Well they don't use that shot often, especially at the top of the hour.
Interesting to see a three presenter shot at the top of the programme rather than close up of the two main presenters or single head shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMwcKziD7Y0
Interesting how?
It would mean they are including the three presenters where it has been 2 presenters for the TOTH since Piers joined.
You don't really seem to be taking into account the fact that English is one of the most popular languages in the world and that there are many similarities between English and the Scandinavian languages. It is quite easy (in my experience anyway) to learn Norwegian, and because the three Scandinavian languages are so similar, Swedish and Danish as well. I'm sure many of us would be able to learn a Scandinavian language, if we had the need or desire to. However, because English is such a global language and it has near as become an international default, most of us have no need to, which I find rather disappointing. Frankly, I think everybody should consider learning a language because, even if you never use it, you can say you have tried it and you have made an effort. I absolutely love learning languages. I have GCSEs in French and German and am studying for a German A-Level, plus learning a small bit of Norwegian and Japanese in my spare time. However, I am unlikely to use my French, Norwegian or Japanese, but I am proud to have some knowledge and to be able to occasionally show it off.
What I'm saying is that it is less that they put us to shame with learning a foreign language, but more we don't have as much of a need to learn a foreign language. I should also mention that the education system in those countries are better and it is more difficult for adults to learn foreign languages.
Anyway, I should stop as I have already gone far enough off topic.
God natt.
Since you brought it up - is taking a foreign language required to leave school before university or college? In the US two years is the general requirement and most start in 7th grade 12/13 years old. I took four years of Spanish (would have continued but I got sick and had to do distance learning over the phone and there wasn’t a demand for Spanish 4 so I only got a 1 hour a week worth of instruction - which made it difficult to learn so I didn’t continue) but there’s not a large Spanish community here and I regret that I lost the skills. I’m slowly reacclimating myself through watching Telemundo news or telenovelas (which have captions in English) and feel decently confident listening but not sure enough of my self to speak.
Sorry for getting off topic.
I'm not sure of the rules throughout the country, but in my school, you have to do a foreign language from Year 7-9 (final year before starting GCSEs), plus a second foreign language in Year 9. You then have the option to take two foreign languages for GCSEs, just the one, or none at all.
However, I have heard about other schools where they have two timetables, alternating each week, and students study two foreign languages from Year 7.
Also, even if you can only understand a language, and can't speak it, just be proud of that. It will certainly be better that others (and I'll be honest, I only got my French GCSE last year, and my speaking is practically non-existent).
The Swedish speaking English thing is part of the reason Swedish Eurovisions appear - to us Brits - to be a cut above those hosted elsewhere, because we "get" each others humour. They do innuendo particularly well. "There was Man vs Machine... As a single woman some nights I don't get that choice!" or of course "This song is called 'Bra Vibrationer' which might confuse English speakers, as it doesn't mean what you think it means..." One of the few times you've not needed Terry or latterly Graham to try and make it funny.
When I did my GCSEs - 1999 to 2001 - we had to do one language (I chose German) and one science.
It's a Scandi thing that English is very widely spoken. When I watched Finland's Eurovision selection show, UMK, one of the composers was a guy called Thomas G:Son, a Swede. They did his green room interview entirely in English, without subtitles.
Finland isn’t in Scandinavia. Swedish is, however Finland’s second official language, so it’s strange that they’d interview the Swede in English. Maybe more Finns would understand English than Swedish, though.
Just staying on this topic, when Saara Aalto got to the semis of X Factor, Finnish TV broadcast the show to Finland as we saw it on ITV here, with no subtitling nor did they add a Finnish commentator.
Swedes and Fins also swear quite liberally in English. Going back to said Finnish Eurovision selection show (in which of course they were picking a song to send Aalto to Lisbon with, hence a high amount of UK/Irish interest) the host, former contestant Krista Sigfrieds hosted the event in Finnish but regularly declared that "This is the motherf**king year!" on Saturday night prime time television.
Likewise, last year Sweden's Melodifestivalen included two songs with several uses of the word "F**k" in, including the song that won the ticket to Kyiv, where the obscenity had to be changed from "f**kin'" to "freakin'".
Issues with the clock this morning coming out of the break at 7:35~.
GMB logo wouldn't shrink and the text box built over it as normal. All kind of squares and shapes fading in and out. Clock/flipper was lost for a good few minutes.
Issues with the clock this morning coming out of the break at 7:35~.
GMB logo wouldn't shrink and the text box built over it as normal. All kind of squares and shapes fading in and out. Clock/flipper was lost for a good few minutes.
