Achievement off the field: Arsene Wenger wins the Guardian’s 1st Public Language Award. Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images
The public has voted Arsene Wenger, Arsenal football club’s manager, as their 2013 language champion. Wenger’s longstanding dedication to the languages, and his work championing language understanding for kids by way of sport, was recognised at an awards ceremony on Wednesday 27 November held in central London.
“Currently being voted Britain’s initial ever public language champion is an amazing honour,” Arsene Wenger mentioned. “I am quite proud that Arsenal and I can assist raise the profile of language learning in colleges.”
Wenger is the 1st recipient of the Guardian’s language award, announced right now alongside the British Academy’s 2013 schools language awards winners. The public language champion award is part of the British Academy and Guardian’s language studying series and campaign to commence a nationwide debate on language understanding.
Wendy Berliner, head of specialist networks at The Guardian, mentioned: “This award is a important component of a two-yr dedication with the British Academy to raising public dialogue above language finding out. There have been five very worthy folks in our brief listing, which was opened to a public vote, and it is superb to see the work of the multilingual Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal Double Club [its progressive language-educating programme] recognised in this way.”
During Wenger’s illustrious job at the helm of Arsenal – he started out as manager in 1996 – languages have played a vital part. Wenger is fluent in English, French and German and learned Japanese while coaching Nagoya Grampus Eight in Japan.
In 1998, following the productive league and cup double-winning campaign led by Wenger, Arsenal set up its Double Club to fuse training and football for young men and women, with a specific target on languages.
Wenger added: “I hope that this award and Arsenal’s Double Club can show that understanding a new language does not often have to be a challenge and sport can support make it pleasant understanding.”
Arsene Wenger crowned public language champion
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