Who control the government of Europe? Klaus Schwab
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Then why do people speak their native languages at things like the UN assembly etc and have interpreters still?
I've heard that English is the language of business, but not the world.
Apologies, I am a bit late here!
I think there are a few reasons:
When you use a foreign language nuances can be lost. There is a famous story of a German general asking a US general to surrender. The response was: "Nuts!" Someone had to translate that and convey the exact meaning.
What you want to say can be constrained by what you can actually say in that language. If you say what you mean in your own language then you have fully-trained professionals to carry out the interpreting which should result in the most exact representation of what you were saying.
If some people do not speak English then they still need interpreters but the process is affected because it is effectively being translated twice: once from the speaker's native language into English and then into English to, say, Swahili. Detail is lost both times.