In this football language podcast we look ahead to the 2024 Euro final that’s taking place this weekend between Spain and England. You can read the transcript for this podcast below, while you can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions or questions then you can contact us at admin@languagecaster.com.

 

Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2024 Euro Final Preview

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DF: You’re listening to Languagecaster.com’s football-language podcast.

Hello and welcome to the show for everyone who wants to practise their English and who loves the beautiful game of football. My name is Damian and I am in a sunny London…this is a lovely surprise after so much rain here in the UK. And I am one half of the Languagecaster team, the other of course is Damon who is based in Tokyo, Japan. Now, I hope you are all doing well and looking forward to the big football matches this weekend: the Copa America final in the US between Argentina and Colombia and the European Championship final in Germany and this one sees Spain take on England.

And so, on today’s show we are going to take a look ahead – we are going to preview – that Euro final and look at some language to describe both Spain and England. We will also explain some of the words and phrases you might hear in the Euro 2024 final, we’ll look back at some of the phrases from the tournament and of course we’ll offer some predictions.

Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in German)

DF: Yes, you are listening to Languagecaster and that message or stinger was in German. Germany of course have been the hosts of this tournament and their team did fairly well – they were beaten in the quarter final (the last eight) by Spain. So, Germany is the name of the country and German is the word (the adjective) we use to describe someone or something from that country and also the language that they speak there. You are going to hear some more messages or stingers in different languages throughout the show. Try and guess what languages they are and try to decide what the country is called as well. There are seven more of them and all of the languages are from teams that played in the 2024 European Championship. We will explain the countries and languages at the end of the show.

Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in French).

OK, that was the second stinger of the show – what language do you think that was? I will give you a clue – this country’s football nickname is ‘Les Bleus‘, they won the World Cup in 2018 and they also lost in this year’s Euro semi final.

2024 Euro Final

Right, in the next section of the podcast we are going to look at the two finalists.