Originally Posted by ctmurray 
I have heard Angel speak English, it is pretty good. But for interviews he prefers to use a translator. I think one reason is that US broadcasters tend to ask compound sentence questions, which is hard to follow for non-english speakers. It comes up at my work with our Asia team, we ask long and complicated single sentence questions. So rather than be slow or confused on the formal interview, he goes with a translator.
It was clear that Angel understood the questions asked of him by Jim Nance (in English) during the Butler Cabin interview. The translator only once translated a complicated question. The other questions, he answered (in Spanish) immediately.
I agree that he probably felt much more comfortable, given how excited he was with the win and so on, to have someone translate his answers.
04-13-2009, 10:47 PM
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