Multi-lingual World Cup Have Your Say

I shall be glad when its all over! Surely there are more important things in this world that need doing.

Ben~Thanks to the BBC for providing this excellent service; Already contributed to the idea....

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I take it we are in for four full weeks of a purely English perspective on the British Broadcasting corporation. The BBC's pundits and commentators seem to be entirely chosen from within the English nation, despite the BBC broadcasting to the whole of the UK. which comprises a bit more than england. Yes those countries may not be represented in south Africa, but maybe just maybe we want to watch this WORLD event without continual references to "The premiership,Rooney, Beckham, 1966 and The hand of God" , in every single match which does not involve England. Ill be keeping statistics as to how many English references are made by commentators and pundits during games which do not involve England. I expect my pen will be busy.!!!

Hello,
can somone help me, please?
On the BBC World Cup coverage it says:
"All BBC matches will be available to watch live online"
Yesterday all I could find was the live radio broadcast.
For 30 minutes I tried navigating through the bbc web page.
I can't use ITV, because I use a Linux box and there was no way
I could get that web page working.

Will there be a link on BBC.com somewhere to that live coverage in video?

Regards,
Peter

" the tool will automatically translate your opinions - so they can be read in a multitude of languages."

Actually the tool sometimes provides bizarre translation if the comment contains misspelt words. In case of Arabic, there are some who write in their local Arabic which is not recognizable by the system. Here is an example that I found on this page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/worldcupteamtalk/

[Arabic] استظافة افريقيا المونديال العالمي شئ رائع نتمنى التوفيق للفرق] المشاركة

Astzafp Africa World Cup is nothing great hope for success for the participating teams]

Actually the correct "human" translation should be: Africa hosting the World Cup is great. We wish success for the participating teams.

Here is another one, which doesn't make sense because of automated translation:
جزائرية, قسنطينة, الجزائر | 16:43 GMT

No Adhan Allen Algeria much stronger than her
[Arabic] لا اضن الن الجزائر اقوى منها بكثير

The correct translation should be:
I don't think Algeria is much stronger than her/it

Another one which is far different from the original because of Arabic misspelling:

Mtphal very nice to enjoy the Hate
[Arabic] متفال جدا للاستمتاع بكره جميله

Actually the correct "human" translation should be: I am very optimistic about enjoying beautiful football.

Hi just wanted to say how disgraced I am with all those England supporters who have turned back on their team. Just ask yourself this.... Could you continuously run 6 miles in 90 minutes? the answer for 99.9% of you is no and what's harder is performing under pressure at the same time!

So next time you become disappointed with a loss of your own team, remember that they did everything they could and focus on the positive aspects of the match e.g. not losing or trying as best they could.

Being a proud England supporter myself I'd also like to suggest to the England team that they need to have at least 2 players in the penalty area when they're trying for a goal as I've noticed throughout the world cups that when the ball is at the corner of the penalty area and the player with the ball is avoiding being tackled by the opposition, he has no one from his team to pass to to score goal and tries his luck at shooting from a far which is really hard and usually results in a no goal.

COME ON ENGLAND WE CAN DO IT! xxx

P.S. Special mention for the Swiss team who fought like their Lion (Lion monument in Luzern)against Chile but unfortunately didn't win. Hey I know I'm an England supporter but I can't lie when I see persistence from other countries also.