Yeah, I understood “it happened really fast” and something like “I’m not gonna say what he said, but it was very personal,” and “je m’excuse especially to les enfants” (well without the part that got translated to english in my brain, but you know what I mean), and the part about saying he regretted it would be like saying what Materazzi said was OK, which he could never do “sur tout pas.”

It’s kind of like listening to the Chinese news for me. All I can understand are the propositions, until someone prompts me (I’ve read articles in English about the interview), and then I can start guessing what the phrases are, matching what I know was said to the sounds. Which is kind of sad, considering I’ve been exposed to Chinese since birth, but my level of sophisticated Chinese comprehension is about the same as for French, which I studied lackadasically at best.

Yeah, I can tell that the interviewer says “d’accord” and “on y va” har har

Also, listen to the heartbroken French commentators: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5OyFi9Csg
AH NON!!! O ZINEDINE!!! AH NON!!! PAS CA!!!!! PAS CA!!!!! PAS AUJOURDHUI!!!!! QU’EST-CE QUE TU AS FAIT??!??!?!!? AIII YAI YAI YAI YAI YAIII!!!!! C’EST CARTON ROUGE AH NON!!!! AH NON!!!!!! C’EST PAS POSSIBLE!!!! hahahaha, it’s so depressing. SORTIER A CARTON ROUGE!!! C’EST LA DERNIER FOIS (?) !!!

So like, I dunno why I’m still so obsessed over this. Happens sometimes, I latch onto something and fail to get over it while the rest of the world moves on. Can you direct me to a “I went from not giving two shits about football to being completely obsessed with a tragic star in roughly 2 days’ time” support group? I’d appreciate that a lot