Pohl then ordered that the translation be amplified through courtroom speakers, ensuring that the defendants could hear but snarling proceedings as each remark in English was followed by the interpreter, sometimes speaking over the lawyers.

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Pohl responded by ordering that the translation be amplified through courtroom speakers, ensuring that the defendants could hear but gumming up proceedings as each remark in English was followed by the interpreter, sometimes speaking over the lawyers.

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At previous gatherings he has stuck to French, using an interpreter to translate into English, despite the fact that he has a good understanding of English, having spent time in his youth as a Harvard student and forklift driver at a US brewery.

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Although Pablo understands very little English, Giacomo said he will work with an interpreter.

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The former journalist and government interpreter hopes the site can give children at least a chance to use English every day, an advantage she had growing up in the city in the 1970s.

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"We reached an agreement on how 'reset' is spelled in both Russian and English - we have no differences between us any more, " Mr Lavrov said through an interpreter.

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Our teacher, Loretta Lacche, didn't speak much English, but our translator Donna Galletta was an expatriate American who had run several restaurants before becoming an interpreter.

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