Reply To: Yiddish at Siyum hashas

As someone who tried to follow the simultaneous translations at more than one siyum Hshas and at the citifield event I can tell you that it is very difficult to follow and understand. The translator is struggling to keep up with the speech and translate at the same time. Perhaps if the translators were given a text of the speeches ahead of time it might work but that does not seem to be the case. I do not fault the translators as it is indeed a difficult task to translate with one ear, talk at the same time and to also give over the right inflection of the speaker.