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Comment on Tounakti Flicks a Switch. by David Eddyshaw
['Madeline Kalvis']
Comments for languagehat.com
Interpreting their words — quickly, precisely and live on the air — requires an extraordinary fluency in not only languages but soccer.
For Tounakti, understanding the minute details of the way Terry speaks is no casual affair.
[…]Terry’s speech, Tounakti said, is full of glottal sounds, making it harder for some nonnative British speakers to immediately understand every word.
[…]BeIN’s broadcast began with the host speaking Arabic and Tounakti speaking English for his audience of one, Terry.
By the end of the evening, after the 40-minute postgame show was over, Tounakti had been interpreting for more than two hours.