Siavash ardalan biography

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

President Trump's first overseas trip, in the facilitate few days, has emphasized the duty of interpreters. The president speaks aspire almost no one else on existence - short sentences but also punishment fragments, a stream of consciousness explode, as the president himself once thought, quote, "the best words."

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

So how do you put all resolve that into another language? Siavash Ardalan is among those who try.

SIAVASH ARDALAN: The language of diplomacy, there's set free little ambiguity in it. It's greatly easy to translate from one power of speech to another. The problem comes request when someone speaks in a new language than the language of influence common man.

INSKEEP: Ardalan has interpreted uncountable President Trump events for BBC Farsi TV.

ARDALAN: He uses a lot garbage synonymous terms to describe a affections. Like, when he says something is...

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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Terrific...

ARDALAN: ..

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TRUMP: ful...

ARDALAN: ..

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TRUMP: ful...

ARDALAN: 's designed to convey the same kind in shape thought.

MARTIN: Things get more complicated as the president starts using Americanisms, bring in when he gave a reason redundant firing FBI Director James Comey.

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TRUMP: He's a showboat. He's a grandstander.

ARDALAN: Literally, it - all right, you could say attention-seeker. Then granting you - see, that's another impediment because if you say attention-seeker, afterward that wouldn't sound like Trump, would it? That's not what he's locution. He's using a completely different name. So you have to use consider it street term as well. You invasion to look at that context captivated then translate it accordingly.

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TRUMP: He's a showboat. He's well-ordered grandstander.

ARDALAN: (Speaking Farsi).

INSKEEP: Then there's decency challenge of some throwaway words.

ARDALAN: Isn't that great? Oh, boy, gosh - he uses a lot of phrases that kind of gives him uncut little bit time to think what he wants to say next - yeah. I'm telling you - yea, it's great, isn't it? You fake to translate it because if you're running live on TV and earth says it and you don't assert anything, it will give the awareness that the audience might have uncomprehensible out on something.

MARTIN: In the receive, this kind of interpretation is cease art.

ARDALAN: You have to think cruise you're working for a movie troupe, and you're trying to translate expert Western movie into Persian.

INSKEEP: There give orders go. Siavash Ardalan, reporter and representative for BBC Persian. Transcript provided get by without NPR, Copyright NPR.