Rising rising star Roberto Campos has credited Taylor Swift’s music for helping him with the linguistic barrier after moving to the United States.
The 21-year-old revealed that learning English was one of his difficulties by moving to the United States in adolescence.
However, Campos spoke with the Free Press Strait on March 5 without interpreter and thanked American Pop Music for his progress. In doing so, he filed the name of the winner 14 times.
“Thank you, Taylor Swift,” Campos said with a smile in Detroit Tigers spring training in Lakeland, Florida.
Campos was 13 years old when he moved from Cuba to continue his dreams of becoming a professional baseball player.
At 16, Campos signed a minor league contract with tigers which included a bonus of $ 2.85 million. At the time, it was the biggest bonus that the tigers had attributed to an international free agent.
The Roberto Campos baseball phenomenon thanked Taylor Swift’s music for helping him learn English
The 21 -year -old drew strongly on American pop music, movies and television to learn the language
During the signing, Campos was responsible for playing the minor league ball for the West Michigan Whitecaps of the High-A subsidiary of Tigers in the suburbs of Grand Rapids.
“My Latin friends said,” Hey, my brother, you have to learn English because it’s difficult when someone speaks to you and you don’t understand anything, “Campos told the Free Press Strait.
To learn the language, the outfall said that he was watching action movies and comedies on Netflix with subtitles, put his phone in English and watched videos to extend his vocabulary.
“It’s great. Sometimes I am in my room and I say: “Dude, I did it. Because when I got here, I said, “I’m never going to learn English because it’s so difficult for me. But now, whenever I can answer a question, I feel good. Dude, in me, I have the impression, yeah, ”added Campos.
The Tigers star also noted how to improve communication with coaches and teammates made things much easier and pleasant.
Campos thanked the artist 14 times a grammy winner in an interview with the Detroit Free Press
“They treat me as if I am one of them,” said Campos. “I feel good every day that I come here.
While Campos continues to make an effort on and off the field, the manager AJ Hinch took note of his progress.
“It’s a good lesson for all of us on patience,” said Hinch, 50, to The Free Press. “The acclimatization process is not only to learn about baseball. He had to learn to live in a different country, in a different language and to interact with many different people.
Hinch added: “It looks like it took a long time because of our lack of patience as an industrial, not nothing he has or did.
