Italian = volleyball language

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I don't know about Fernandinha, but I will investigate! hehe

Yeah, Glinka's husband is volleyball player Roberto Mogentale. Danielle Scott is married to Arruda (or something similiar) right?

Sheilla is not that bad, considering Mari . What amazes me is that American players such as Berg, Sykora and Bown speak better. And we all know the stupid stereotype that Americans do not learn another language. Completely untrue!!!

Danielle Scott's husband is more known as "Pezão" (big foot) here and his last name is Arruda, if I'm not wrong, his first name is Eduardo.
Blame me, but I had never heard about Roberto Mongetale as a volleyball player -- he's Glinka's husband for me But I was thought it was weird to see a Polish guy named Roberto

Well, all Brazilians are bad in italian, except maybe for Valeskinha... She's still learning but already has improved more than the all others together I think there's a lot of laziness there, but anyway...

I think that average americans do not learn other language because they don't need to... they don't need to make effort to be understood... and it reflects in the population -- All the american players I've seen speak at least a regular italian... and for some of them, it also amazes me how good their italian is, even in the accent...
(but truth to be told, Berg speaking italian is so funny )

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Blame me, but I had never heard about Roberto Mongetale as a volleyball player -- he's Glinka's husband for me But I was thought it was weird to see a Polish guy named Roberto

same here. never know Roberto is an italian volleyball player. what i know beofre is his name and he is glinka's husband Thanks for telling us, samba player

i think i should go to apply italian courses asap, so that i can communicate with my favourite players, hehe....

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I was surprised to hear him speaking Polish. He is really quick in learning a new language. That is great. He showed respect to Poland. Good job, Bonitta!!!

Marco Bonitta speaking in Polish
http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=LBRD-wxMo8A

The Italian volleyball leagues are really appealing~~~

In addition, is Valentina Fiorin going to practise her french? Does she have a base for that language?Thanks!

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Italian and French are similiar, so I think Vale won't have many problems learning it. They share a lot of the lexic and grammar. In addition to it, in Italy many schools adopt French as foreign language together with English, so she may have learned some French already in school. Don't forget that in the team play also Nadia Centoni, who will be helpful. Another thing that can be of help is that Cannes is a city near the Italian border.

Hai ragione!! Wish her a happy "journey" ~~~

Lindsey Berg

Ze Roberto, Berg, Sheila

Stacy Sykora speaking a mix of italian, spanish and portuguese XD

...and Italian in TV