> I have met quite a few professional translators that work for the European Union and all of them add a significant delay to translation. And accent. My point

> I have met quite a few professional translators that work for the European Union and all of them add a significant delay to translation. And accent. My point is more that learning this skill is an academic pursuit that involves a lot of training. There is a delay, (word ordering, brain time) but the top translators I've met have zero accent. (Most impressive was meeting someone, not a translator IIRC, who had not only gotten rid of their accent but learned a California American accent!) But again, doing all of this involves a lot of study, from the biology/mechanics of speaking, to the deep cultural knowledge that is needed to translate idioms.