Giving a Talk to a Non English Speaking Audience

Ric Vatner | January 19, 2010

This was the first time I have ever given a talk to a non English speaking audience that had to be translated as I spoke. I can tell you it is not as easy as it looks.

I did everything I could in advance to make the talk work. I had my PowerPoint presentation translated into Chinese and I sent the translator a copy of my talk in advance so she could read it and prepare.

So what could go wrong?