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Controversy over the use of simultaneous interpretation in the Spanish Congress of Deputies (source in Spanish)

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Greg Hunt
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Local time: 04:13
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A bit strange May 4, 2011

I think this story reveals a lot of Spain's idiosyncrasies.

I wrote a letter to El País on this subject a while back.

The original article was this oneletter to El País on this subject a while back.

The original article was this one.


And Branchadell sent a reply to my letter.

It just seemed to me that to insist on using a language which needs to be interpreted for the majority of people in the Parliament to understand, when you are a native speaker of a language everyone understands, is political posturing.

My wife's family totally disagree with me by the way! ▲ Collapse
 


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