Polyglot Communication
Photograph
Polyglot Communication
The "World Family" Approaches Maturity
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 3/4 × 9 1/2 in. (17.2 × 24.2 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0354
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (U.N.) 9/62 POLYGLOT COMMUNICATION: Russian students study French and \ English in a linguaphone class at the U.N. Language Training Center \ in Moscao. Most hope to be U.N. translators, but five of this group \ are studying to be simultaneous interpreters, whose instant in-the- \ ear-out-the-mouth feats of translation never cease to amaze U.N. \ visitors. \ Credit: UNITED NATIONS © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
