I was once with a landlord who is German who needed to communicate to my Russian parents. He had a friend with him to interpret German->Spanish, but I didn’t know Spanish but my wife did, so she interpreted Spanish->English, then I interpreted English->Russian. I can imagine that thats a daily task in the UN
@fuzzzone2 ай бұрын
Spanish seems like SUCH an unnecessary step in that story. A German-English speaker couldn't be found? That's nearly inconceivable.
@sherrillsturm72402 ай бұрын
There was an "I love Lucy" show about needing to travel three different languages to talk to a foreign policeman. It was very funny.
@andersjjensen2 ай бұрын
@@fuzzzone Depends on when this was. I tried to get by with English in Germany in the late 80s... Let's just say that didn't go according to my plan.
@soacespacestation85562 ай бұрын
@@andersjjensenIn the 1980s?
@andersjjensen2 ай бұрын
@@soacespacestation8556 Yes. The decade after the 70s but before the 90s.
@potats59162 ай бұрын
needing to know every regional dialect for your language AND a knowledge of a couple foreign languages is insane
@jplayzow2 ай бұрын
That's why they get paid the probably not big enough bucks
@superzigzagoon2 ай бұрын
The UK has 40 recognized dialects alone.
@herrmannmunster2 ай бұрын
@@superzigzagoon Though to be fair the UK:s representatives at the UN are hardly going to speak with a strong Scouse or Northern Irish accent. More often than not speeches at the UN are delivered using the standard/central dialect of the country and using pretty standard words rather than slang.
@ArchiWorldRuS2 ай бұрын
Russian doesn't have regional dialects thankfully. Arabic does a lot
@nulnoh2192 ай бұрын
@@herrmannmunster That's better than the Actual UK Parliament. I've seen English Parliamentarians not understanding Scottish or Irish ones.
@thomasww15822 ай бұрын
I used to interpret for medical appointments and it really is exhausting. Even though your brain gets used to spitting out what other people are saying, it’s so easy to mess up one word and then you’re behind and need to figure out how to convey what was said without getting further behind.
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
Sounds like a case for deliberate practice and cognition training.
@benjaminlynch99582 ай бұрын
It’s not easy, but it probably does help to be in a face to face environment where you can interact with both parties and ask them to slow down or repeat things. I can’t even imagine the pressure the UN translators are under without the benefit of that. You get one shot, and you can’t screw up, take a break, or ask the speaker to slow down.
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
@@benjaminlynch9958 It is easier in person but remote simultaneous interpreting was really common during the pandemic. It was tough but we managed.
@silverXnoise2 ай бұрын
@@benjaminlynch9958Also, when you screw something up, the world might plausibly end.
@JonatasAdoM2 ай бұрын
It's like trying to remember what someone has said in a conversation while also paying attention to what they're saying now. I suppose it is similar to trying to understand what was said in a previous scene while not ignoring what is being said in the current one.
@Inflight7772 ай бұрын
Did amy had to become a member of the UN to sit there and test the headphones?
@blohai2 ай бұрын
Yes actually.
@pixelorange2 ай бұрын
She represents Canada
@bosh__2 ай бұрын
Nah, Amy had to petition for Half As Country to be a recognised seat in the UN so she could sit in on one of the sessions to test it
@shinpugi2 ай бұрын
@@bosh__ I agree. the "Unknown Channel 7" from 1:11 is probably being worked on for Half As Country
@pixelorange2 ай бұрын
@@shinpugi The Half as Language spoken in Half as Kingdom
@bcrx57802 ай бұрын
1:13 The "unknown" option is just to hear the microphone audio feed without translations. Helps when there's a lot of reverb or if someone is speaking too quiet for some reason. 😊
@riccriccardoricc2 ай бұрын
Yes, I was going to comment that. I was once at a conference where they were mainly speaking French and English, and being bilingual, I found it much better to listen to that channel.
@vincentwong11272 ай бұрын
Do you know why they don't just call this option "Mic" or "Original"? You know, like a normal person will call it
@AklyonX2 ай бұрын
The language you are receiving is unknown. Fits perfectly in the selector.
@DeletedDevilDeletedAngel2 ай бұрын
@@vincentwong1127 probably because it describes the purpose, if the voice you're hearing is unknown you switch to the unknown channel to hear what the original sounds like
@JonathanCretton2 ай бұрын
The original sound without translation is actually called "Floor". You can see it at 5:07
@christoffussenegger93772 ай бұрын
The European Parliament is working in 24 languages. All languages are spoken and interpreted, and all documents are published in all 24 languages.
@sirBrouwer2 ай бұрын
I did hear that in the Irish booth Gaelic is only translated out of Gaelic as there are just not enough people that speak it. Even in Irland it self but they have picket it as there official languish to use in the EU.
@AliceTheSpider2 ай бұрын
But when it becomes 193 nations it's actually better to lessen it to something around 6 so thy will learn those instead of trying to hundred or something languages
@rschroev2 ай бұрын
The reason (or so I heard) that the European Union didn't simply choose one official language, is that that would give the native speakers of that language an unfair disadvantage in debates. After Brexit though, none of the member states has English as their official official language. Maybe this is the time to switch over to English as the only official language of the EU: it's a second language for everybody now. Except Ireland ... even though the Irish official EU language is Gaelic, most Irish people are native English speakers.
@memesthatmakeyouwannadie31332 ай бұрын
@@sirBrouwer I can't imagine there are that many Latvian or Montenegrin speakers either. They probably can ONLY translate to English, maybe French or Russian as well.
@Emilio-gf8hm2 ай бұрын
@@rschroevEnglish is official in Ireland and Malta, both of which are member states.
@walpoleandworcester2 ай бұрын
Amy deserves a raise for being such a workhorse for the channel!
@kathrynstemler63312 ай бұрын
Yes! - but tbf everyone else has JetLag.
@tomgidden2 ай бұрын
@@kathrynstemler6331 you said the thing!! (Everyone's now contractually obliged to run around in circles yahooing obnoxiously)
@zxl72042 ай бұрын
shes being held prisoner everyone knows sam doesn't pay her
@SeptemberMeadows2 ай бұрын
Amy is my Spirit Animal 😋
@aromaticsnail2 ай бұрын
Spoiler: Amy doesn't exist, she's not a real person
@evita92842 ай бұрын
I am a translator for the UN and to be a good translator, one needs to have a good working memory. It begins with an IQ test that is an hour or so long where you must repeat numbers and test for reflexes and some puzzles. However, they look at your working memory and processing speed scores. If you do them well, you can be a translator, which you are give a year of training first. My IQ was average, at 102, but I scored highly on speed and memory, and so was allowed to be employed. It was a nerve wrecking IQ test and my armpits never sweated so much for any test lol
@sion82 ай бұрын
*+*
@ElonMuskTheOne2 ай бұрын
how do you feel about your job becoming obsolete due to modern NLP models?
@artyfarty99changingtohoiii782 ай бұрын
Woah!
@Hermoan41202 ай бұрын
@@ElonMuskTheOne lmao lets trust whatever errors the computer makes and remove all accountability
@Tinil02 ай бұрын
@@ElonMuskTheOne Hahahaha, look at this guy that knows nothing about NLP models
@jamium2 ай бұрын
I was searching KZbin for a video explaining how UN translators work a few days ago out of curiosity and found no good videos. Thanks, Sam
@dollymix52 ай бұрын
Big data
@hiromiarash1722 ай бұрын
Lovely sentiment and I’m also glad this video exists, but your story is an outright lie there’s literally: - a Ted-ed video on the subject - 2 WIRED interviews on the subject and - 3+ videos on the subject made by the UN itself And I could find all that in seconds.
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
Check out Inside Interpreting. Oh yeah, that's me. Lots of videos there on how interpreting works.
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
@@dollymix5 Machine interpreting? Yep. Human interpreting, nope.
@gamingnerdgirlz2 ай бұрын
@@InsideInterpretingI subbed thanks.
@mucaravci2 ай бұрын
Hi. Wonderful video. As an interpreter (simultaneous and consecutive) this video touches pretty much all the basics. Just wanna add a few things: - Although interpreting seems hard to the laymen, much of it is an acquired skill, meaning anyone could do an ok job with some training/experience. It takes some time to get your bearings but once you get the hang of it, you can snap into that vibe in a couple of minutes. - As Sam put it, the reason there are at least two interpreters in a booth is mostly due to exhaustion. After about half an hour you start to slip up. Especially if you are interpreting in between languages with different grammatical, syntactical structures so two interpreters switch every 30 minutes or so. I have experienced my share of exhaustion during college years and at some jobs. I remember I forgot who I was, where I was for about 1.5 hours after interpreting for about 6 hours. - And as Sam stated, most of the job is the prep work. If done right, you can go through the day easily. - The gap between the original text and the interpretation is called decalage and it is a topic of heated discussion in the translation/interpreting circles. It is heavily dependent on the aforementioned differences. - Also, you can ask the speaker to slow down (preferably brief your customer in advance) or say "The interpreter missed this part of the speech due to technical/speed issues." It may not fly in the UN but most common interpreting jobs give you that leeway. Most politicians, executives, scholars etc have experience with interpreters so they tend to facilitate your work. - The same goes for jokes, uncommon proverbs, similes etc. you can just say "The joke cannot be interpreted. Please laugh." or localize it to the best of your abilities. - There have been a few instances of famous interpreting mistakes/failures and unfortunately, it is one of the professions in which you only get to screw up big once so the best way to avoid those is to prep the hell out of your upcoming gig but I think 90 percent of the jobs are really forgiving.
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
Sounds like freelance life to me!
@mucaravci2 ай бұрын
@@InsideInterpreting its the best 😃
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
@@mucaravci "Can you do a carbon fibre safety event on Monday and Tuesday and then mountain tourism on Thursday and Friday?" "Sure. Where am I staying?" ;-)
@mucaravci2 ай бұрын
@@InsideInterpreting lol. although I hate covid with every fiber of my being. I cant help but say that it has done wonders to the freelance economy. being able to work from home is a blessing.
@x--.2 ай бұрын
Oh! That's what all my jokes have been missing, someone to say "The joke cannot be interpreted. Please laugh," to whomever I am speaking to. Thanks for the tip!
@LaVerdad9112 ай бұрын
I went to Colombia a few years back and was the only Spanish speaker among 10 people. After 2 day of constantly translating between English and Spanish, i was exhausted. I can't imagine being a UN translator
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
They just sit at their computers all day. Now the interpreters....
@kevinl84402 ай бұрын
Thank you for spelling Colombia correctly. Even as an American it is annoying to see spelled incorrectly
@seneca9832 ай бұрын
And I assume you were doing consecutive interpretation, not simultaneous interpretation which is tougher.
@Masahane2 ай бұрын
I speak Japanese kind of well, and Portuguese and Spanish on top of that. I've never had to mix the later two, but on the very rare occurrence that I've needed to go back and forth between two languages besides English... Yeah definitely mentally exhausting
@tunim43542 ай бұрын
It's different when you are paid for it. And you get to work for the UN. They are paid quite well. And they also have a great thing to add to their resumes
@escha_b2 ай бұрын
My uncle used to be an interpreter for the UN! Don’t realize how complicated this was until watching this, he definitely left out the nitty gritty details 😂
@ElonMuskTheOne2 ай бұрын
and now his job has become obsolete
@a2falcone2 ай бұрын
@@ElonMuskTheOne How so? I still haven't seen an AI do a good interpretation. Translations, yes... But speech to speech?
@LadyViolet12 ай бұрын
@@ElonMuskTheOne You highly overestimate machine translations. Machine translations from similar languages are alright at best a decent amount of the time, but from languages that are really different (ex: Japanese and English) machine translations are still awful most of the time. I've also yet to see machine interpretation let alone good machine interpretation. Also basically all nuance can go out the window when it comes to machine translations. You would not want to have a machine interpret peace talks. You might get away with machine translating menus or something which only needs to be close enough, but something like a book would need more precise and context specific translations.
@AfonsoBucco2 ай бұрын
@@LadyViolet1 Once I tried to use ChatGPT to translate a text to tupi-guarani, it just invent random words and place it like it's true. One very known word or two: yes. A phrase? impossible.
@iac172 ай бұрын
I work in the control rooms of one of the UN's agency and can guarantee this informations are 100% accurate. in the agency I work in we only have 4 officials languages (arabic, english, french and spanish) relatively ch 1, 2, 3 and 4 on the taiden system we have equipped but we also have two spare channels ready for russian and chinese. I actually was surprised to see that at the general assembly they also have a taiden system. I always saw it as the low budget alternative to the bosch conference system. ps. most of the times the english interpreters do absolutley nothing during some meetings (since most participants speek in english) , it's hilarius to see them just chill out and get payid a fortune while the others almost never stop working.
@imark77777772 ай бұрын
Darn lazy English Americans. The technical aspect of this is so intriguing. as somebody who does A/V stuff it's interesting to see where low budget things show up in higher and productions. My current fascination is how many times OBS get used in full on broadcast.
@DudeRandom2 ай бұрын
Sometimes the other speaker would crack a joke in their own language but its impossible to translate into, so the interpreter would literally say "He said a joke, please laugh".
@chinguunerdenebadrakh70222 ай бұрын
That statement "he said joke, please laugh" probably is funnier than any joke the original speaker could have said
@dabbinghitlersmemes17622 ай бұрын
@@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022 True, but only the first time.
@COMPUTER.SCIENCE.2 ай бұрын
The UN is not comedy central, folks! 😂 Do you happen to know the difference between LEGAL DOCUMENTS & essays/fictions?? The UN is NOT a buddies gathering, they are LEGAL presentatives of countries! Please self educate and be LESS ignorant! 😂
@jgcodes20202 ай бұрын
"hey look he did the funny"
@fodonogue32 ай бұрын
Hi, I’m an interpreter (not UN, but still)! Thanks for clarifying the difference between interpreter and translator because those are very different skills and interpreters so, so often work without the level of prep and time that translators have, even at the UN level! It is TOUGH, but it is also *SO* rewarding!!
@ElonMuskTheOne2 ай бұрын
not as tough for a computer though
@fodonogue32 ай бұрын
@@ElonMuskTheOne You’re right- because they’re not nearly as efficient or culturally accurate!
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
@@ElonMuskTheOne It's harder for computers in terms of energy expenditure.
@afurryferret2 ай бұрын
@@InsideInterpreting humans expend quite a lot of energy, I wouldn't be surprised if in the near future computers pull ahead in efficiency for more complex tasks, they already beat humans hands down in "simple" ones like math. (Although I don't think HAI expressed how little room for error there is in interpreting, it will probably be quite a long while before the UN uses computer interpreters)
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
@@afurryferret It depends what we mean by efficiency. Training and running LLMs or neural models takes incredible amounts of energy. Also, neither of the current machine interpreting approaches is suitable for any interpreting that involves anything more than the emotionless passing of information. See the book, Interpreters vs Machines or the No, Mr Robot video on my channel. The Basics series on my channel also explains a lot of this stuff.
@alphaxalex16342 ай бұрын
Last time I was this early this series was called ‘That Wikipedia List’
@anshagrawal2542 ай бұрын
real
@LucasMarian-x8f2 ай бұрын
when someone is straight forward and good at what she does best. People will always speak for them. For me I can would say give Mrs Sonia Duke of finance education a try and you be happy you did
@Writer_Productions_Map2 ай бұрын
Here before the bots continue the thread
@honor9lite13372 ай бұрын
Stop the Bot! @@Writer_Productions_Map
@jaysonz51372 ай бұрын
@LucasMarian-x8f Mrs Sonia Duke shit on my dog she did it we were all begging her to stop and she just kept going it was awful there was shit everywhere the dog was fine though
@safebox362 ай бұрын
The reason there's two interpreters in the booth is also because of memory issues. The person taking notes translates so there's a written copy of the dialogue taking place, and so that any ambiguity between what the two people hear can be cleared up.
@gavinkemp79202 ай бұрын
It's also to help to cross-referencing the documents they are given or to look up technical words that might have escaped the live interpreters mind while still keeping the live interpretation running.
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
Not really. The inactive interpreter is there to support the active one. Notetaking is a completely separate function, as is translation.
@honor9lite13372 ай бұрын
Yeah? 😮@@InsideInterpreting
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
@@honor9lite1337 It is indeed.
@safebox362 ай бұрын
@@InsideInterpreting it depends on the situation but a WIRED interview with a former UN interpreter claimed that when he wasn't the one talking, he was still transcribing the dialogue from the origin language to English for later reference
@castlering2 ай бұрын
I've been an Educational British Sign Language Interpreter before I had to stop work due to ill health, and to describe the process of receiving - processing - outputting (be it BSL to English or English to BSL) is hard. I relate it to driving a car; when learning, you're aware of everything that you have to do, and that awareness causes mistakes to happen. However, after a while, you're able to just get into the car and drive without needing to think too much about what you're doing - it's second nature - but when you then start thinking too much about what you're doing, mistakes happen. Tiredness is a definite factor, like with driving, and I know that when tired, the lag (the time between language 1 and the output of language 2 gets shorter, which impacts greatly upon the quality of the output. A 10 second lag is a good aim. It's quite amazing how our minds do it....but we can.
@ethanmartinez8082 ай бұрын
Bro that is freaking insane.🤯 Live interpretation seems something unbelievable when I think about how they listen, translate and speak around same time. I can't even imagine how much their brains have to process for this. Hats off to all those interpreters.
@goosenotmaverick11562 ай бұрын
If I had to do that, I don't think I'd have enough brain power remaining to blink, much less do something important like control my bladder. 😂 Some of us can barely walk and talk, and these folks over here are like living machines that just take language and spit out other languages. The fact that with everything we have for tech, we still use a human body instead, just shows you how powerful our brains are/have potential to be. Consider my little wrinkly walnut absolutely obliterated. 😂
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
And we self-monitor too!
@atk050032 ай бұрын
@@goosenotmaverick1156 Computer translation/interpretation has improved dramatically in the last 20 years, but it still needs to improve a lot more before it can be trusted in business or politics. There are simply too many little details that matter.
@goosenotmaverick11562 ай бұрын
@@atk05003 that's exactly my point, everything has come a long way even more recently, but we still aren't there yet, and we still use humans, I think that's neat.
@ashton96992 ай бұрын
Why can some people not speak without saying or starting out with "bro"? Cringe
@saturnv24192 ай бұрын
Reminds me the joke: Mark Twain went to listen to Kaiser speech in German, halfway through the interpreter stopped while Kaiser was still speaking. Mark Twain puzzled, he asked the interpreter why did he stop. Interpreter replied: I am waiting for the verb.
@pwp87372 ай бұрын
LOL true, German has a tendency to park the verbs at the end of a sentence, and until to hear that the rest is difficult to conjugate.
@C2Talon2 ай бұрын
Professional live interpreting has got to be some crazy exhausting work. I've tried casually doing it for some friends a few times and it's just so easy to get overwhelmed, especially if you're doing it for something on television or for something else where the person isn't going to stop talking just so you can catch back up if you stumble.
@gayatriunni5492 ай бұрын
i was once doing a two way interpretation (but after each sentence not live) and it was crazy-my brain was literally going to explode i garbled sentences and said it in the wrong language to the wrong person and this is after both of these being the languages i grew up speaking-i cant even imagine what it would possibly be like for un interpreters doing all that, and live, and from their third, fourth, fifth language
@seanj36672 ай бұрын
0:10 Why does a robot have abs?
@8yourpets2 ай бұрын
To be sexy, why do you?
@Tartarus45674 күн бұрын
It's made to be like a real human, so the muscles are made to be like that.
@tuanmichigan23 сағат бұрын
Would you prefer that it has a big belly e.g. like mine?
@Tartarus456722 сағат бұрын
@@tuanmichigan same
@CynicallySarcasticReserves2 ай бұрын
Still can't fathom how they do it almost real time. I could _maybe_ manage 6 seconds of that, then my brain would fry and just speak gibberish. They can hear, translate and speak faster than I can think. Wild.
@LRM12o82 ай бұрын
Years (or decades) of training makes incredible things possible
@goosenotmaverick11562 ай бұрын
Very specialized brains It's absolutely insane, unbelievable, unfathomable, what we are capable of as humans when we use our wrinkly brains in specialized ways like that. It's so cool. We spend so much of our lives "changing gears" between tasks, it's amazing what happens when you spend so much time in just one "gear" The things this channel and it's comments makes me think about 🤔
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
Training, hard work, more training.
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
@@goosenotmaverick1156 Simultaneous interpreting involves true, 4-way multitasking, for an easy speech.
@sino_diogenes2 ай бұрын
I bet you'd be able to do it for a lot longer if you trained on doing it for years and years.
@sohansaha46932 ай бұрын
2:55 the way i froze every part of my body just from reflex actions at this point
@SsNiPeR12 ай бұрын
lmao
@lesleyvids26102 ай бұрын
I experienced real time interpretation at the CJEU in Luxembourg this year and it was a truly magical experience.
@sirBrouwer2 ай бұрын
I had the same pleasured but then in the Brussels parlement. according to the people working there the UN version is in a way easier. as they use 6 official lingua franca. the EU has 23 (Austria and Germany bith use German) Belgium and the Netherlands both use Dutch)
@jbird44782 ай бұрын
@@sirBrouwer 24 actually. English is still an official language of the EU, despite not being the primary language of any of its members.
@varana2 ай бұрын
@@jbird4478 While Ireland may list Irish first for political reasons, English is still an official language (and the one which 90+% of Irish people may want to have things translated into).
@jbird44782 ай бұрын
@@varana Yes, true. I was kind of hesitant on how to phrase it for that reason, and that's why I opted for "primary" language rather than official or native. English btw is also an official language of The Netherlands (due to the Dutch Caribbean).
@isaiasabinadisosagarcia9362 ай бұрын
3:03 As a former spanish-english interpreter, I felt that
@ElonMuskTheOne2 ай бұрын
and with modern NLP models, they are not even dime a dozen anymore :)
@SimonASNG2 ай бұрын
5:46 I spoke at one of these things and had to meet with the interpreters the day before. They went thru my speech, took notes, asked questions on the technical jargon, etc. so that as I was giving it, they all pretty much had it written out in their languages and were not live interpreting at all. Then there was a Q&A afterward for about half an hour and that was a live translation from the audience and back again. Pretty surreal experience.
@miguelpadeiro7622 ай бұрын
Ludwik Zamenhof sitting in the back, brooding, "They could all be speaking Esperanto..."
@thezipcreator2 ай бұрын
I think Esperanto would be too eurocentric to be used at the UN
@miguelpadeiro7622 ай бұрын
@@thezipcreator Oh yeah, just find the whole esperanto experiment funny
@keiyakins2 ай бұрын
Schleyer crying in Volapük
@doktorhabilitowanystanczyk2 ай бұрын
@@thezipcreatorfour out of six of the official UN languages are European, they're eurocentric already lol
@seneca9832 ай бұрын
@@thezipcreator Well, maybe they should then use Lojban instead.
@Mantelinorsu2 ай бұрын
Thank you for making a distinction between translation and interpreting!
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
Yey!
@danielbishop18632 ай бұрын
There's a similar distinction in terminology with computer programming language. A "compiler" translates human-readable source code into an executable program, which can then be run without requiring the compiler. An "interpreter" reads the source code and executes statements at runtime as-needed, requiring the interpreter to be used every time the program is run. And there are hybrid approaches between the two.
@ZergrushEddie2 ай бұрын
The stakes are also insane. Krushchev's "we will bury you!" statement was possibly mistranslated. It was taken by NATO as an explicit threat of nuclear war but it is possible that a closer translation would be "we will be at your funeral", more akin to "we will outlive you." That's far less of a direct threat and, again, the stakes are literally nuclear war.
@Alexandrosaur12 ай бұрын
every first gen immigrant had to be an interpreter for their parents at least once
@sion82 ай бұрын
I call it “the designator interpreter”!
@pwp87372 ай бұрын
simple sentences and thoughts are one thing, but getting into often heated political debates where nuance plays a major factor is on another level.
@sion82 ай бұрын
@@pwp8737 Simple?! Have you ever taken a grandparent to their doctor's appointment and then translated what their doctor's were saying?
@notfunnydidntlaugh682 ай бұрын
@@sion8they're agreeing with you. They're saying that simple things are easy for every day, but political stuff and nuanced topics are harder
@DannyBeeVegas2 ай бұрын
My cousin worked at the UN as an interpreter. She can translate to/from English, Danish, and Filipino/Tagalog.
@Sinthoras1552 ай бұрын
Jokes on the UN, the EU has real-time translation in 24 languages for the parliament
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
Interpreting...
@obinator90652 ай бұрын
just make it mandatory to speak English...
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
@@obinator9065 No.
@keiyakins2 ай бұрын
@@obinator9065 why English? German is the most common first language in the EU. All three main cities where things are done use French. One of those would make more sense.
@fuzzzone2 ай бұрын
@@keiyakins Because English would mean that no one at the table had a native speaker advantage, now that the UK is out. Not technically true, since most Irish folks natively speak English but Ireland isn't generally considered either a problematic or a dominant power in the EU so it's perhaps less of an issue than German or French or whatever would be. That and nearly everyone sitting in the EU parliament already has at least a middling understanding of English, which can't be said of German etc. It is, after all, the lingua franca of the internet and global commerce.
@SchweppeOrtolf2 ай бұрын
*No man is too rich til you leave the earth you leave with nothing*
@IshiharaCrowl2 ай бұрын
well at least the rich achieved something in life before that person dies. his kids will probably inherit the fortunes and pass on to the next generation. cycle of life.
@EnocksonFerrall2 ай бұрын
true.but.i.wont.die.poor
@YambaoDebien2 ай бұрын
We live in this earth, we gotta play our part...He's living life while he is still alive...
@HarsinGiessler2 ай бұрын
Yeah got to play your part start early with diversified investments in stocks, bonds, and real estate. Maximize contributions to tax-advantaged accounts like 401(k)s and IRAs. Regularly review and adjust your strategy to ensure security.
@LorangeBrodhead2 ай бұрын
People dont understand that the prices of things are never going back down. This inflation is deeper than we think. Those buying groceries are well aware that the real inflation is much over 10%. The increments dont match our income, yet certain investors still earn over $365,000 in stocks and assets. Wish I could accomplish that.
@BlankPictures-12 ай бұрын
I accidentally read the title as "How the UN untranslates everything in real-time."
@SofaKingShit2 ай бұрын
Misreading things is a sign of being a very good interpreter.
@EEEEEEEE2 ай бұрын
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@A.H._2 ай бұрын
dude, i read “how to untranslate everything in real time”. i was very confused but my interest was positively picked 😂
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
Great video! I do that job but for commercial clients and churches. I have seen all sorts of conditions from interpreting in a field while dumper trucks drove by to a chateau in France with really fancy food.
@IanHobday2 ай бұрын
This is amazing very accurate picture of how interpretation works. It is SO much easier to interpret into your native language. Huge kudos to people who can do it both directions.
@mrobbins1292 ай бұрын
Wendover productions would pay the 96 francs. Step it up!
@JoeJaJoeJoe2 ай бұрын
I think the Wendover guy stole money from the Half As Interesting guy
@genevarailfan39092 ай бұрын
@@JoeJaJoeJoe He did, but then the Jet Lag guy stole it to pay for a flight to Australia.
@deadboy99552 ай бұрын
If only it cost 48 francs
@danielbishop18632 ай бұрын
That's 106.97 USD, in case anyone was wondering.
@JoelNordlander2 ай бұрын
Marshmallow-In-Mouth is actually just Danish
@TXnine7nine2 ай бұрын
And here I thought it was Dutch. 😂
@nolimo25932 ай бұрын
😢😢😢😢😢😢
@brianarbenz13292 ай бұрын
It’s Cajun.
@ender72782 ай бұрын
That would be Danish-in-Mouth.
@seneca9832 ай бұрын
@@TXnine7nine Dutch may sound weird or funny, but that's subjective. Danish, on the other hand, has several rare (or even unique) phonological features making it more unusual.
@frondeskias2 ай бұрын
You should do a video on the interpreter services in the EU parliament where they have 24 official languages!!
@furTron2 ай бұрын
This. And you can watch live translation from the Parlament in Internet and switch languages like tv channels
@the_soggster34642 ай бұрын
My professor knows people who do real time interpretation and she had done it before. She said it is one of the most exhausting things shes ever done. Anyone hiring has always been opposed to the high price for hiring two interpreters to take turns. But they need it lmao
@MrStrocube2 ай бұрын
“English/Spanish interpreters are a dime a dozen.” Thanks so much.😢 It’s also true, lol! 😂 I work as a Spanish language interpreter for the LA Co. Superior Court. People have no idea what we do or how we do it. Thanks for getting the information out there.
@ElonMuskTheOne2 ай бұрын
with modern NLP models they are not even a dime a dozen anymore
@MrStrocube26 күн бұрын
@@ElonMuskTheOne Actually, I know first hand, that at least the LA Co Superior Court cannot find enough qualified people to fill a major shortage of interpreters. NLP models or not. The court, at least for now, cannot use machines, they have to use actual human beings. I’ve also seem many of those machine translations, they are a joke. Interpretation is different than translation, because it is verbal and done in real time. Whereas translations are written documents. I have yet to see any machine that can interpret accurately in real time, in a courtroom setting. Does not exist, yet. And may never exist, for all I know, Elon. 🙄
@atk050032 ай бұрын
I've done simultaneous interpretation for a bilingual congregation. It is exhausting. After the first Sunday I had to rest for about 10 minutes before I could hold a normal conversation. I'm barely fluent enough in my second language to interpret simultaneously (I still struggle with several accents). The idea of doing relay interpreting in a high-stakes setting is terrifying.
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
I help churches set up interpreting better.
@Chriss1202 ай бұрын
I'd expect the unknown channel to just be the original, whatever language is spoken.
@seneca9832 ай бұрын
They shouldn't need a channel for that because you can the original sound directly without a headphone. Though, maybe that could be useful for the hard-of-hearing.
@sonsofwar98192 ай бұрын
@@seneca983 someone else said it's just raw audio incase the speaker talks low, or the room has bad acoustics
@RannieRocket2 ай бұрын
Actually they do ask the speakers to slow down, and sometimes stop interpreting altogether if the quality is too bad or it becomes impossible to interpret (some meetings interpretation is mot covered or if it runs over they leave). At that point usually the chair interrupts to have the speakers slow down
@shadymorsi43472 ай бұрын
i love it that this channel evolved from reading wikipedia articles (that wikipedia list) to actual having correspundents and live research... what a evolution... keep on the good work sam
@qtluna79172 ай бұрын
Every regional accent is the real struggle here I feel. At what point is a language not close enough to be a regional accent. For some this might be more chill, but given how fragmented the colonial powers languages got, and how some people have very strong accents, this can't be that easy.
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
Accent month in interpreting school is a whole thing!
@atk050032 ай бұрын
@@qtluna7917 The lines between "accent" and "dialect" and between "dialect" and "language" can be poorly defined at times. Spanish and Portuguese are separate languages, but a given pair of a Spanish speaker and a Portuguese speaker may be more similar than a Southern US English speaker and some Scottish English speakers, who speak different dialects of the same language.
@jinjysbro2 ай бұрын
And then image that in English, where a large number of people speak it as a second language so the amount of accents you would be exposed to is probably bonkers!
@Alex-zs7gw2 ай бұрын
@@atk05003unless the Scottish person was speaking Scots or Scottish Gaelic - no ...just no. We have an incorrect understanding of dialects in Anglophone countries. Ask an Italian about differences in dialects ...or the difference between castellano and gallego. We have local slang, pronunciation variances, grammatical quirks sometimes considered outside the "standard" - but nothing to the same degree of difference between Spanish and Portuguese. There's more accents and 'dialects' in the UK than the rest of the English speaking world combined...but it's all the same language at the end of the day.
@atk050032 ай бұрын
@@Alex-zs7gw My example was slightly tongue-in-check, and there are better examples that I don't remember off the top of my head, but I have heard southern Brazilians speak a dialect of Portuguese that is closer to Spanish than most of them will admit. The point is, the difference between a dialect and a separate language is a bit fuzzy and is largely a cultural difference. Two languages might be quite similar and two dialects within a single language might have a lot of differences.
@Stratelier2 ай бұрын
3:41 - "I Google Translated a diplomatic negotiation through 100 languages and got this..."
@poundlandvodka2 ай бұрын
As a professional interpreter it's great to see HAI talking about my profession, and actually batshit insane to see you actually read the UN-AIIC rates and conditions agreement. Truly, no-one is doing it like Sam and Amy.
@oliverfalco70602 ай бұрын
I love how amy teleports everywhere
@CompanionCube2 ай бұрын
3:53 lichtenstein, sweden, and iceland certainly can speak english
@jinjysbro2 ай бұрын
In this word where everyone is learning English, I think it is less about the second language abilities of the speaker and more the possibility of being able to give a speech in your native language. For example, though the president of El Salvador speaks English quite well, he still gave his UN speech in Spanish.
@belstar11282 ай бұрын
i am not sure about Lichtenstein since they speak German and if its like Germany then you find that over half the population only knows German or broken English
@minamagdy41262 ай бұрын
Isn't Liechtenstein the only German-speaking country where no other language is widely known, though? Most of them there speak only German
@LoseMike-og9in2 ай бұрын
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@LoveFrank-cp7tv2 ай бұрын
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@VeraW.Talley2 ай бұрын
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@KateShawn-jv6wh2 ай бұрын
How can one find a verifiable financial planner? I would not mind looking up the professional that helped you. I will be retiring in two years and I might need some management on my much larger portfolio. Don't want to take any chances.
@VeraW.Talley2 ай бұрын
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@VictorB.Henrickson2 ай бұрын
She appears to be well-educated and well-read. I ran an online search on her name and came across her website; thank you for sharing.
@Rudnaz_1272 ай бұрын
My Nanna was an interpreter for Spanish in the UN for a short amount of time before leaving because she wasn't exactly ready for how fast she needed to interpret & speak.
@josephwodarczyk9772 ай бұрын
She still got to keep the bragging rights, and that's all that matters.
@antoineletreguilly68592 ай бұрын
It would have been so neat to have a Babel sponsorship for this episode
@kacperkonieczny73332 ай бұрын
That is a Babylonian mistake on their part.
@johncrwarner2 ай бұрын
In the European Union when it was the EEC they said that the Danes always laughed last.
@andrealauer44932 ай бұрын
That frazzled "BUT SAM!!" made me laugh so hard 😂😂
@NateJGardner2 ай бұрын
I wonder how often someone in the UN zones out and just cycles through the languages
@joseville2 ай бұрын
RIP when a speaker uses a word that has no translation into the target language lol
@ShaggyEye2 ай бұрын
Almost never happens. In the worst case, you say the word as it is and insert a short explanation. Like, say, "Russian perestroika, a period of reforms in the 1980s..."
@ClockMaster-mq2hm2 ай бұрын
@@ShaggyEye German ... Schadenfreude "damage-joy" (““The feeling of pleasure derived by seeing another’s misfortune.””) Fernweh "remote~far~distant-sickness" (“desire to travel, a longing for far-off places”) Sturmfrei "storm-free" (“When your parents are away, and you have the whole house to yourself.”) Ohrwurm "ear-worm" (“when you get a song stuck in your head, and you (have to) keep singing it over and over again..”) Backpfeifengesicht “A face that begs to be slapped.” (self-explanatory, I guess ... ) Erbsenzähler "pea-counter" (“Someone who is obsessed with details and a bit of a control freak.”) Dreikäsehoch "three-cheese-high" (“a small child who is only as tall as three wheels of cheese stacked on top of each other”) zu verschlimmbessern "to enworsen-improve" (“To make something worse by trying to improve it.”) Wanderlust “A strong desire to travel.” Zugzwang "decision~move-enforcement" (“To be forced to make a decision.”) Weltschmerz "world-pain" (“Mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state.”) ... amongst others ...
@danielmartins43672 ай бұрын
Portuguese has that. 'Saudade'. I guess all languages sorta do. Roughly translates to Longing or Yearning, but not quite. Like feeling nostalgic or missing someone, something, somewhere..
@Georgggg2 ай бұрын
Thats where interpreter have to improvise and prove their skill.
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
@@joseville No such thing if the interpreters are good.
@blendertests54932 ай бұрын
You mentioned that there are part-time translators that step in if there's more work that needs to be done, but that's not the only kind of part-time translator for the UN. The UN also employs some part time translators for more obscure languages, where they only occasionally need a translator for that language. My high school Spanish teacher also worked part-time as a UN translator. Her native language was Ladino, an endangered language originating from small Jewish communities in northern Spain. She was also fluent in 6 other languages, including English, Spanish, and French. The UN doesn't usually need a Ladino translator, but when they do, a professional translator who natively speaks the language and is fluent in at least 3 of the core UN languages is very valuable.
@m0basheri8152 ай бұрын
UN Interpreter here; It was amazing & surprising at the same time seeing this stuff getting covered! Super niche subject. TYSM!❤️🇺🇳
@yora5542 ай бұрын
how can i apply
@moinmeister20792 ай бұрын
i dont like the un stop interpreting
@regexrationalist3462 ай бұрын
That's so cool :D Any fun stories or facts you can share?
@sethdaugherty51622 ай бұрын
So when is the brick 2.0 video coming?
@jonahplayscello2 ай бұрын
@@sethdaugherty5162 nebula
@Game_Hero2 ай бұрын
it already did?
@ahha63042 ай бұрын
Back in 2015 I was a part of Universal Periodic Review regarding of LGBTIQs+ rights in Thailand, and what I saw is that they having real interpreter sitting in their boxes doing real-time translation from word to word in almost exact match to the sentence in such sudden time. I know myself I didn't need any translation tool but when someone who came from Malaysia and Indonesia and their strong part ain't English, I use it, and since I have Southern Thai Muslim Stepmum I know few Malay/Indonesian words and found that the accuracy and speed is just insane. I respect those people. I used to be interpreter 3 times, and no more because my skill ain't that high.
@honjokun06152 ай бұрын
Oh my ... could I have possibly found a fellow Thai on an English based KZbin channel? ถ้าใช่ เย้ๆ นานๆ ทีเจอคนไทยในคลิปแบบนี้สักทีนึง 😊 Begitu, anda tahu Bahasa Malaysua sedikit-sedikit juga, ya?
Its astonishing how somewhat accurate that scene in the Bond movie was where someone was killed through a loud sound with these…
@Lillia-nu2xt2 ай бұрын
Dude, your videos are awesome, keep it real
@jamcdonald1202 ай бұрын
0:30 the illuminadi, obviously
@chaosfenix2 ай бұрын
As someone who has done live interpretation I can attest that it is exhausting. It is probably the most exhausting mental task I have ever done. A few minutes is fine but if you do it for a couple of hours it really wears you out. It gets more exhausting when someone doesn't understand public speaking. The cadence of how you speak matters a lot and it can get really frustrating when you have someone who uses a lot of slang or idioms or has a habit of not finishing their sentences.
@notmenotme6142 ай бұрын
Airline Pilots and Air Traffic Control solve this problem simply by having everyone speak English on the radio.
@olfrygt2 ай бұрын
When your communication is limited to about 100 predefined, highly standardised interactions that may fly (haha). For political discourse and the exchange of complex ideas you will end up with poeple saying only what they _can_ say, not what they _want_ to say.
@TheHungarianMan2 ай бұрын
This was a really interesting video, because I and my father did probide interpretation for conferences for many years in Hungary. It was great to hear how they do it in the highest level!
@d_duck16012 ай бұрын
I'd love to know how big is the delay between the speaker speaking and the listener hearing it.
@sethteichroeb520123 күн бұрын
I took my undergraduate degree in translation in Beijing (between Chinese and English, and it included both translation and interpretation). All of our interpretation classes we took were only practicing consecutive interpretation (where the speaker takes pauses to let the interpreter interpret) because simultaneous interpretation was so difficult and required much more skill and training. It was a dream of mine at one point to work for the UN, but realising how much interpretation requires of you, I kinda decided to switch gears.
@sirBrouwer2 ай бұрын
having seen how they do it in the EU parlement the UN version seems like a easy day. there are 24 interpreter boxes (Belgium and the Netherlands and Germany and Austria share a booth) however most interpreters and also members just hook in to the English speaking interpreter.
@mukkaar2 ай бұрын
Yeah, most people nowadays, even if they are not that proficient in speaking English, can understand it really well. English to x language is probably almost most common translation, so meaning of things are probably best preserved listening to English interpreter if you anyhow can.
@mikatu2 ай бұрын
So, are you saying the Swiss don't share a booth with Germany as well, and France and Italy? And Belgium only shares a booth with the Netherlands but not the France?
@edouardoneill2 ай бұрын
@@mikatuSwitzerland is, thank god, not in the EU
@danielmartins43672 ай бұрын
@@mikatu switzerland is not part of the EU
@LouisDillard022 ай бұрын
Imagine the precision needed to translate complex diplomatic talks on the fly. That's serious skill.
@Zerpersande2 ай бұрын
Simultaneous interpreters are actually magicians.
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
Depends on how many pastries you feed us.
@ShaggyEye2 ай бұрын
Wish we were also paid magical money for it 😂
@Kaziriasatalve.2 ай бұрын
I work for the UN in Bangladesh as a consultant and I was also amazed by when I first time saw they were translating everything live!
@mistformsquirrel2 ай бұрын
Honestly, this is really cool info. I think in my head I just assumed everyone had to know English or you'd have to bring your own interpreter from home. Like I had nothing to base that on, I think it was just one of those things that I'd never given active thought to and just assumed. This is honestly much cooler and more interesting. And also yeah that sounds like tiring work. The stress of it alone has to be pretty high just because of the potential ramifications of an oopsie.
@sherrillsturm72402 ай бұрын
Becoming fluent in French studying Italian, and starting German classes, being at the UN or an embassy was one of my college ambitions. Life got in the way, and I ended up teaching French, and later, Spanish, instead. When I traveled with my son throughout Europe for several months, I was able to instantaneously interpret for and from him. It was joyous. That said, speaking either of my other languages today does wear me out about 20 minutes in.
@himssendol65122 ай бұрын
UN level interpreting is high stress. 🤷♂️
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
Try a business negotiation or a nuclear safety briefing.
@ElonMuskTheOne2 ай бұрын
not for a computer though
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
@@ElonMuskTheOne Actually, the current models take a lot of processor time for results that are still worse than humans.
@himssendol65122 ай бұрын
@@InsideInterpreting I'd rather do a nuclear safety briefing than a political meeting. 🤷♂️ Science, technology and medical areas are more my thing.
@Robloxgod-np3tp2 ай бұрын
My 6th grade science teacher worked as an interpreter for Korean for a few years. It’s a cool story.
@GayGHvain872 ай бұрын
Gosh, these interpreters are MVPs, props to them !! I can't imagine translating important diplomatic, super sensitive stuff IN REAL TIME. I live in france. My stepbrother married a greek girl he'd met while they were both working in Edinburgh, UK. Celebrated once in greece, convenient for her family, though his close family went too. And also celebrated in france. In total, 17 greek people came and all of them spoke very decent english. But of course, SW france isn't known for its fluency in english, let alone greek. Only my stepbro speaks english (thick french accent), my mom a little bit, enough to have simple yet pleasant chat with the bride's parents; and the bride, though learning french real fast, at the time only spoke greek and english, sooooo YEAH X__X Between the chitchat, the visiting in town AND the ordering in noisy restaurants with french-only-speaking staff, at the end of hot summer days, I almost passed out !
@prathameshgosavi8033Ай бұрын
In India parliament assembly, every word spoken, is live translated into 21 language and member can listen to these translations via headphones.
@robertsutherland98722 ай бұрын
Just Casually taking un picks
@somnvm372 ай бұрын
I am not an interpreter but I do know 2.5 languages [I don't german well enough] and I remember I was watching a video with my partner, and after every 5-6 seconds I'd translate it to them it wasn't even translating AS the person was speaking, but after 10 minutes my brain was melting because this is insane it's like needing to solve 2 simple equasions on paper, using 2 pens in each hand at the same time.
@SnuffedBeans2 ай бұрын
Sam, are you a fan of the UNs new policy on bricks?
@Linterna0012 ай бұрын
You mean the BRICS organisation?
@midnightstudio37422 ай бұрын
Here is one for the next error video: Pentecost was a name used in the Christian Greek Scriptures (The New Testament) to denote the Festival of Harvest (Ex 23:16) or Festival of Weeks (Ex 34:22), called also “the day of the first ripe fruits.” (Nu 28:26) It was to be celebrated on the 50th day (Pentecost means “Fiftieth [Day]”) from Nisan 16, the day that the barley sheaf was offered. (Le 23:15, 16) In the Jewish calendar it falls on Sivan 6. The presence of God’s spirit was manifesting in some 120 disciples causing them to miraculously begin speaking in different languages, occurred ON Pentecost of 33 C.E. Thus the miracle occurred on the date of an EXISTING Jewish Festival (Pentecost) and was not the start of it being a celebrated day.
@arpitgoyal1892 ай бұрын
what if an interpretor do some big errors and how does it is ensure that big error doesnt happpen. Like how does they make sure the integrity of the interpretation.
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
Another reason why we work in pairs. Also, we are taught to self-monitor. Basically, if you are really good at your job, have a great team with you and if the client does their end, it'll all be good.
@ShaggyEye2 ай бұрын
That's why there's a very difficult entrance exam. It ensures people who get the job make very few mistakes if any
@creshiell2 ай бұрын
Bless whoever wrote the ad read for this video. It comforting to know that im not the only one that delivery pad thai has in a choke hold
@TexanTurtle72 ай бұрын
Didn’t they use a method like this during the Nuremberg Trials?
@PrograError2 ай бұрын
That's probably where it came from... after all, that United Nations is the building blocks of the current UN
@wiruwaruwolz2 ай бұрын
Yes, they pretty much did. It was a lot more low-tech and the booths were open and not sound-proofed, but the Nuremberg Trials are regarded as the birth of modern conference interpreting
@TexanTurtle72 ай бұрын
@@wiruwaruwolz thanks for the reply!
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
Absolutely. That was the first public trial of it.
@InsideInterpreting2 ай бұрын
@@wiruwaruwolz Actually, the birth of modern conference interpreting was at the start of the International Labour Organisation in 1919. I know that as I was at the conference interpreting centenary conference. All the talks from that are on KZbin.
@bahamutbbob2 ай бұрын
The bit where you translate it a bunch of times reminds me of one of the DVD extras for Monty Python and the Holy Grail. They played a scene with the Japanese dub, then had the English translation from that as subtitles.
@BRMdrivingschool2 ай бұрын
British English??? So Americans don’t get simplified language
@PrograError2 ай бұрын
some say it's all the same english.
@dantetre2 ай бұрын
American is already an oversimplified language...
@LRM12o82 ай бұрын
Is there even really a difference between the two in spoken language (ignoring dialects)?
@You_Tube_Viewer_22 ай бұрын
How do people not get the joke
@jbird44782 ай бұрын
@@LRM12o8 Yes, but not that much. There are some phrases and words that are different. I'm guessing they use "international English" which is pretty much the intersection of the two and just avoids such specific phrases.
@ourlessy2 ай бұрын
Thanks for giving interpreters some love! It's a tough job! My mum worked freelance as an interpreter and translator for various organizations and it requires being really good at thinking on the fly- it's tricky when dealing with stuff like slang and turns of phrase and you really want to match the tone of the speaker because a simple change in how something is phrased can make it go from a neutral conversation to something confrontational, apologetic etc. which could convey unintended emotions. This is why AI translation still has a long way to go.
@MeGrimlock552 ай бұрын
The UN Needs A Robo Diplomat
@tlzangl2 ай бұрын
Can you imagine how exhausting it is for children who interpret for their parents in all sorts of situations.
@grkuntzmd2 ай бұрын
Do they have translators from British English to American English? 😜Got to make sure that the American diplomats understand that when the Brits say "crisps", they really mean "chips", and when they say "chips", they really mean "fries".
@JoeJaJoeJoe2 ай бұрын
who is Lorry and why is she backed up at the border crossing?
@nulnoh2192 ай бұрын
I wonder if they also convert freedom units. WTF is a Kilometer? How much is that in football fields?
@cczsus65132 ай бұрын
That’s my thoughts too different areas might have different ways they speak the same language
@MichaelRafferty-xb7iy2 ай бұрын
Please. I dunno what language the English speak but it sure as he'll ain't English. 1. They are called "cookies." 2. You store things in a "trunk" not in a "boot" 3. Hurricane has a long "a" like "walking cane". 4. There is no "d" in "zebra"
@tomrow322 ай бұрын
@@MichaelRafferty-xb7iy The British don't pronounce "zebra" with a D. Stop being xenophobic
@TakeWalker2 ай бұрын
"Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men." I nod.
@jamium2 ай бұрын
3:30 apparently the russians can't translate from russian into russian??
@UnbelievableHotdogАй бұрын
Hey could you translate from Russian to Russian? I didn't think so.
@lastnamefirstname86552 ай бұрын
serious huge respect to the UN interpreters, must be a truly insanely important and difficult and necessary job!
@jonahplayscello2 ай бұрын
Juice and smores 😅
@Convolutedtubules2 ай бұрын
I feel like the interpreter's booth deserves it's own video
@ThePrimeYeeter2 ай бұрын
Will this affect the fact that the United Nations has a plan to pass the International Bricks Act?
@armandocolmenaresduque5661Ай бұрын
1:15 “‘Jajajajajaja,’ the Unknown Channel or Channel 00, has a floor sound feature that allows you to hear all original language interventions.”