MADRID: FC Barcelona's recently signed Dutch midfielder, Mark van Bommel, has spent five days in a convent in an attempt to improve his Spanish.
Van Bommel, who already speaks Dutch, English and German, learned the basics of his new language with Spanish nuns in Vught, a village close to the Dutch city of Eindhoven, leading daily El Pais reported Friday.
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