Amadou Onana

[AV84]

I asked the other day why his English is so good but no one replied. Is it just because he's really clever, do we think?

Well going by what was on his tablet when pictured on the plane, he looked like he was watching Love Island, so maybe that's where he is getting a lot of his lessons. Although you did say his English was 'good', so maybe not.

It wasn't Love Island. It was Anyone But You. And it was the promo pic that was used for it, so entirely possible he wasn't even watching it, it was just coming up as an advertisement the way things do on Netflix when you don't interect with it for a minute.

Not that it matters, obviously.

[Sexual Ealing]

He's fluent in a number of languages.

I know, but so is Emery. Onana's nailed the accent.

[eye digress]

Most of the Everton fans that I've read seem mainly annoyed that they're not getting the £80m from Arsenal or Bayern that they'd talked themselves into thinking they were getting.

Which is also what we mostly thought about Dougie, in fairness.

[cdbearsfan]

His dad is from Cameroon, could be from the English-speaking part?

[AV84]

He's fluent in a number of languages.

I know, but so is Emery. Onana's nailed the accent.

The accent most likely comes from watching TV and films. A lot of mainland Europeans learn English from an early ago, so would have a basic knowledge of it, but the accent has to have come from hanging about with a lot of London lads, or watching a lot of Top Boy or The Only Way is Essex and the likes.

[Mister E]

He's fluent in a number of languages.

I know, but so is Emery. Onana's nailed the accent.

The accent most likely comes from watching TV and films. A lot of mainland Europeans learn English from an early ago, so would have a basic knowledge of it, but the accent has to have come from hanging about with a lot of London lads, or watching a lot of Top Boy or The Only Way is Essex and the likes.

Hi, Eastie - how's tricks?

[PeterWithesShin]

He's fluent in a number of languages.

I know, but so is Emery. Onana's nailed the accent.

By things said Emery struggled with learning both French and English. Onana seems to have sailed through learning languages, some people are just naturally good with them, others not so much.

[AV84]

He's fluent in a number of languages.

I know, but so is Emery. Onana's nailed the accent.

The accent most likely comes from watching TV and films. A lot of mainland Europeans learn English from an early ago, so would have a basic knowledge of it, but the accent has to have come from hanging about with a lot of London lads, or watching a lot of Top Boy or The Only Way is Essex and the likes.

Hi, Eastie - how's tricks?

I don't know what that means.

[Sexual Ealing]

He's fluent in a number of languages.

I know, but so is Emery. Onana's nailed the accent.

By things said Emery struggled with learning both French and English. Onana seems to have sailed through learning languages, some people are just naturally good with them, others not so much.

I get all that, but I know people from all over the world who speak great English, but you can always tell where they're from (broadly). I've never heard somebody who's only spent a couple of years here with such a lack of their own accent when using it. Anyway, I thought he must have grown up here or something, but no, he's just a genius.

When I speak Spanish to non-Mexican Spanish speakers, I get told I have a Mexican accent (which is a total thrill), but they mean I sound odd because I'm clearly a British person with a slight Mexican accent, which is weird to them. This lad's just got it. Fair play to him.

[Mister E]

He's fluent in a number of languages.

I know, but so is Emery. Onana's nailed the accent.

The accent most likely comes from watching TV and films. A lot of mainland Europeans learn English from an early ago, so would have a basic knowledge of it, but the accent has to have come from hanging about with a lot of London lads, or watching a lot of Top Boy or The Only Way is Essex and the likes.

Hi, Eastie - how's tricks?

I don't know what that means.

Eastie is a former poster on here  - before flouncing off - who seemed to have an uncanny and intimate knowledge of the life of our players.

[Ads]

I get told I speak like a Mexican too when I butcher Spanish. Hail to all the Hollywood Cartel influences.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm shit with languages, French at school and then when older dating a Swedish woman and a Persian woman (not at the same time). Wasn't through lack of trying but apart from a few basic words my brain just wouldn't retain languages.

[Clark W Griswold]

I'm shit with languages, French at school and then when older dating a Swedish woman and a Persian woman (not at the same time). Wasn't through lack of trying but apart from a few basic words my brain just wouldn't retain languages.

I normally retain the naughty words and that’s about it.

[Sexual Ealing]

I was terrible until I lived in a place where nobody spoke English. Necessity is the mother of invention and all that.

[LeeB]

I was terrible until I lived in a place where nobody spoke English. Necessity is the mother of invention and all that.

I found that when I worked in Falkirk for a while.