A useful knowledge of other languages can certainly be helpful today in a number of situations, so I used to include the other human languages I speak (Russian and German, mostly) in the laundry list of my qualifications. I don't think it ever actually mattered one way or another, though.
I couldn't possibly do simultaneous interpretation, but I did once spend a couple hours being pig-in-the-middle in a 4-language conversation between 2 Czechs and a monolingual American. I don't speak Czech (I can read a little) so I spoke to one of the Czechs in Russian, to the other in German, and to the American in English. The Czechs, of course, spoke to one another in Czech. It was quite the experience.
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04-29-2008, 08:14 AM #20
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