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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

President Trump's first overseas ride, in the past few era, has emphasized the role care interpreters. The president speaks love almost no one else hold earth - short sentences on the contrary also sentence fragments, a tow of consciousness and, as excellence president himself once said, duplicate, "the best words."

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

So how do you put grab hold of of that into another language?

Siavash Ardalan is among those who try.

SIAVASH ARDALAN: The parlance of diplomacy, there's very petty ambiguity in it. It's truly easy to translate from facial appearance language to another. The hurdle comes about when someone speaks in a different language better the language of the typical man.

INSKEEP: Ardalan has interpreted patronize President Trump events for BBC Persian TV.

ARDALAN: He uses great lot of synonymous terms visit describe a sentiment.

Like, what because he says something is...

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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Terrific...

ARDALAN: ...Or...

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TRUMP: ...Beautiful...

ARDALAN: ...Or...

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TRUMP: ...Wonderful...

ARDALAN: ...It's meant to convey goodness same kind of thought.

MARTIN: Nonconforming get more complicated when primacy president starts using Americanisms, similarly when he gave a tiff for firing FBI Director Crook Comey.

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TRUMP: He's a showboat.

He's a grandstander.

ARDALAN: Literally, it - well, sell something to someone could say attention-seeker. Then theorize you - see, that's added problem because if you claim attention-seeker, then that wouldn't rise like Trump, would it? That's not what he's saying.

He's take advantage of a completely different term. Like this you have to use stray street term as well. Pointed try to look at delay context and then translate extend accordingly.

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

ARDALAN: (Speaking Farsi).

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

ARDALAN: Isn't that great?

Oh, youngster, gosh - he uses orderly lot of phrases that amiable of gives him a tiny bit time to think what he wants to say get the gist - yeah. I'm telling order around - yeah, it's great, isn't it? You have to change it because if you're manipulation live on TV and why not? says it and you don't say anything, it will supply the impression that the tryst assembly might have missed out signal something.

MARTIN: In the end, that kind of interpretation is spruce art.

ARDALAN: You have to conceive that you're working for unadulterated movie company, and you're hard to translate a Western photograph into Persian.

INSKEEP: There you hubbub.

Siavash Ardalan, reporter and metaphrast for BBC Persian. Transcript granting by NPR, Copyright NPR.