Zlatan, les guignols et le verbe zlataner

Le verbe Zlataner, bientôt dans le dictionnaire ? Amoureux des mots, de la langue française et de… football, Bernard Pivot est revenu sur le phénomène Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Sur France Inter mardi matin Pivot répondait à Pascale Clark. La journaliste lui demandait son avis sur la possible attribution du plus grand prix littéraire suédois à Zlatan Ibrahimovic pour son autobiographie Moi, Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Et Bernard Pivot de répondre avec humour :« Ils ont tort, ils devraient carrément lui donner le Nobel ». Mais le phénomène Zlatan déferle aussi dans la langue de Molière. Le verbe zlataner créé par les Guignols de Canal Plus est repris dans tous les médias à la manière de « schtroumpfer » utilisé à toutes les sauces dans le monde des petits êtres bleus. A quand l’entrée de « zlataner » dans le dico ? L’homme de la dictée a sa réponse : « Zlataner est un néologisme mais on ne sait toujours pas ce que ça veut dire. C’est assez amusant de voir un mot inventé comme celui-ci « zlataner », vu la popularité extraordinaire de ce joueur de football, et de voir le sens que va prendre ce verbe « zlataner » dans les semaines et les mois à venir. Ça va être intéressant ».

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Learning a language opens up another world

I arrived in Sweden in October last year without any knowledge of the place, its culture or its language. One year on, I still feel that I am only scratching the surface of integrating into the Swedish way of life.
It has been very difficult to learn Swedish for two reasons: first, the Swedes almost all speak perfect English; second, all the language training is grammatically based. As someone who was educated without learning English grammar, it is now twice as difficult to learn a foreign language. Persistence has been the only way to learn and I am now able to have full scale conversations.
I would say that if you plan to come and live in Sweden or any of the Scandinavian countries you will be made more welcome if you make the effort to learn the language. Sir Trevor McDonald's comments about a monolinguistic society are absolutely true - learn another language and the world opens up for you.

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