Towards the end of this video Canelo speaks good English. Why doesn't he do this more often? He would be huge going on Kimmel or other American English speaking outlets. @ 2:15.
He can certainly understand English well, i’ve seen him answer English questions without a translator but speaking in Spanish. Maybe he’s just not confident enough to speak it publicly yet.
Or more likely he can’t fully say what he wants to say and would probably end up getting his quotes twisted by the media if he can’t completely put across what he wants to say. Apparently that’s the reason GGG often speaks in his native language these days too, because he was being misquoted because of his basic English.
I understand that. I can understand Hebrew perfectly well, but my speaking level is so basic that i wouldn’t be that comfortable knowing my words are going to be published in the media and taken as gospel.
I remember when Sammy Sosa was in the Congressional hearings around steroids and he was getting sh-- for not speaking English despite doing interviews for years in English. It was exactly this there is a huge difference between a casual conversation with no real ramifications and one where you can face purgery because you either misunderstood the question or misspoke your answer.
Towards the end of this video Canelo speaks good English. Why doesn't he do this more often? He would be huge going on Kimmel or other American English speaking outlets. @ 2:15.
This is speaking "good english"? Lol
He can certainly understand English well, i’ve seen him answer English questions without a translator but speaking in Spanish. Maybe he’s just not confident enough to speak it publicly yet.
Or more likely he can’t fully say what he wants to say and would probably end up getting his quotes twisted by the media if he can’t completely put across what he wants to say. Apparently that’s the reason GGG often speaks in his native language these days too, because he was being misquoted because of his basic English.
I understand that. I can understand Hebrew perfectly well, but my speaking level is so basic that i wouldn’t be that comfortable knowing my words are going to be published in the media and taken as gospel.
Absolutely. Any non native speaker should be extremely cautious about saying anything more than a coupla well rehearsed soundbites.
And I get exactly what you mean, I can folow conversational Greek and a few other languages but trying to say anything in any of em beyond basic pleasantries, pillow talk or ordering food or refreshments leaves me flailing around for the right words like a stuttering moron.
I think in Canelo's case as well there may be something of an element in him wanting to 'stay Mexcian' or appear to at least... I'm ain't gonnna claim any real knowledge but it appears there's sometimes something of a stigma amongst Mexicans around becoming Americanised or somesuch... IDK... I could be off the mark with that one though.:thinking:
Cool vid....I know how hard it is to try and speak a foreign language...and you can hold yourself back from fear of sounding silly...and just not understanding wtf is being said lol...props to anyone who can speak a foreign tongue.
He can certainly understand English well, i’ve seen him answer English questions without a translator but speaking in Spanish. Maybe he’s just not confident enough to speak it publicly yet.
Or more likely he can’t fully say what he wants to say and would probably end up getting his quotes twisted by the media if he can’t completely put across what he wants to say. Apparently that’s the reason GGG often speaks in his native language these days too, because he was being misquoted because of his basic English.
I understand that. I can understand Hebrew perfectly well, but my speaking level is so basic that i wouldn’t be that comfortable knowing my words are going to be published in the media and taken as gospel.
He should keep working on it. He understands a good amount of English. But he can't produce a lot. Only at home in his gym, without a bunch of noise, and with ES repeating highly simplistic questions.