No les gustaba mucho el fútbol

[irmamar]

They didn't like ... much or very much?

¿Cómo es fútbol en inglés británico, soccer o football? Siempre me hago un lío con esta palabra (será porque no me gusta...).

Thanks.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by irmamar

They didn't like ... much or very much?

¿Cómo es fútbol en inglés británico, soccer o football? Siempre me hago un lío con esta palabra (será porque no me gusta...).

Thanks.

Football. Soccer en realidad es football, solo que en USA llaman footbal a una especie de rugby glorificado...

[pjt33]

Inclino hacia "They don't like football very much", aunque "They don't like football much" también está bien, y "They don't much like football" es aceptable (más formal).

[bobjenkins]

They don´t much like football - suena británico




PD el título es herejía

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by irmamar

They didn't like ... much or very much?

¿Cómo es fútbol en inglés británico, soccer o football? Siempre me hago un lío con esta palabra (será porque no me gusta...).

Thanks.

Yes I know that you don't like the soccer.

It's soccer.

[pjt33]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

Yes I know that you don't like the soccer.

It's soccer.

No, Chileno tiene la razón. Irma ha preguntado específicamente sobre el inglés británico, y "soccer" es un estadounidismo.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by pjt33

No, Chileno tiene la razón. Irma ha preguntado específicamente sobre el inglés británico, y "soccer" es un estadounidismo.

¿Mexicano o americano?

(Ya no puede ser brasileño)

[CrOtALiTo]

The Brassily soccers isn't like to Mexican soccer.

Here is named as let's go a play a cascarita.

[irmamar]

And "much" or "very much". My book says "much", but I think I could say "very much", couldn't I?

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by irmamar

And "much" or "very much". My book says "much", but I think I could say "very much", couldn't I?

Yes, you could. According to my wife in the background, the difference between them is very subtle. So subtle in fact that she can't define it. I think they can be used interchangeably.

By the way, there used to be just football in England, until the school of Rugby invented a variation of football involving cheating by holding the ball in your hand, and much more violence. This was known as Rugby football, then just Rugby. The original football was known as Association Football, and Association was later shortened to Soccer. That's one theory, anyway, and who cares?

[pjt33]

Originally Posted by Perikles

By the way, there used to be just football in England, until the school of Rugby invented a variation of football involving cheating by holding the ball in your hand, and much more violence. This was known as Rugby football, then just Rugby. The original football was known as Association Football...

Nonsense. Each public school had its own variation of football. Someone at Cambridge University decided to get together representatives from different schools to agree some consensus rules, so that people from different schools could play together - they met in a room in Trinity College which today has a plaque commemorating the event and costs about £200 more per term than the equivalent room on the next staircase - and this led to Association football being defined at about the same time as the innovation of carrying the ball in Rugby.

[Perikles]

I stand corrected, but hardly nonsense.

[hermit]

Re: "Who cares?"

Heresy with humour...I laughed out loud...

[pjt33]

I was using the word in the idiomatic ("not true") rather than the literal ("not grammatical") sense.