A man has won the French Scrabble world championship despite not speaking the language.
Non French speaker wins French Scrabble
Nigel Richards defeated his French-speaking competitor in the final in Belgium on Monday (20.07.15), eight weeks after he picked up a French dictionary for the first time to try and learn all of the words.
A friend of Nigel's, who is from Christchurch in New Zealand, said: ''He doesn't speak French at all, he just learnt the words.
''He won't know what they mean, he wouldn't be able to carry out a conversation in French I wouldn't think.''