General Conference and Languages

November 11, 2006 | By Joel Dehlin | One Comment

General conference is a semi-annual event which happens in April and October of each year. Many of the General Authorities (the leadership of the Church) give talks to the membership of the Church. I personally find these events inspirational and motivational. 

Walking through the translation room during general conference is a pretty sobering experience. Everywhere you look, you see young people with ear phones and draft copies of talks. They’re preparing themselves to translate the talks as they’re given so that we can send out the translation as we send out the video to the world. These audio/video streams go out to all corners of the earth.

Here is just a partial list of the langauges that the Church translates (either live or as follow-on DVDs):

Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Aymara, Bislama, Bulgarian, Cambodian, Cantonese, Cebuano, Chuukese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Efik, Estonian, Fante, Fijian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Guarani, Haitian, Hiligaynon, Hindi (Fiji), Hindi (India), Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Ilokano, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kekchi, Kiribati, Korean, Kosraean, Kuna, Laotian, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Mam, Mandarin, Marshallese, Mongolian, Navajo, Norwegian, Palauan, Papiamento, Pohnpeian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Portugal), Quechua-Peru, Quiche, Quichua-Ecuador, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tongan, Turkish, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yapese, Yoruba

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