Emi Martinez boasts of enviable fluency in three different languages, despite coming from Argentine himself - so, what's the secret behind his incredible talent?
“I had a really good teacher – she’s now Unai Emery’s English teacher!” said Martinez in his interview to the Royal. “I hadn’t seen her for so many years but now I see her every day at the training ground. I’m thankful for the English she taught me, it was a massive help for me.
“I was able to pick up the language quite easily, but in the first six months, it’s always difficult. The main thing Arsenal wanted me to learn was the defensive words in football, ‘get out,’ ‘left, right shoulder’ and other things. I managed to get that in one week thankfully – I also speak Portuguese fluently and understand Italian as well.”
