Spain's Senate admitted Catalan, Basque and Galician with simultaneous interpretation. Congress refused. The row was never about headphones or the cost of booths.
Spain's Senate admitted Catalan, Basque and Galician with simultaneous interpretation. Congress refused. The row was never about headphones or the cost of booths.
Iran’s president told the UN there was no translation. The two-minute silence in the headphones exposed how fragile simultaneous interpretation really is.
Castro spoke for four hours, Gaddafi for 96 minutes and his interpreter broke down. Inside the booths where UN speeches are turned into six languages, live.