A soft-spoken man, shy of giving interviews, fluent in Gujarati and Hindi but not in English, he will need to adopt new skills to manage his public image.
Interviews were conducted by male interviewers fluent in all three languages.
Four experienced interviewers, two of whom were fluent in Spanish, conducted interviews for the study.
(With the exception of Mr. Borgato, none of the members of Kazaky speak fluent English. The interview was conducted with an interpreter they supplied).
In an interview in fluent French with reporters traveling with him on an Alitalia airplane from Rome, the pope was asked what his message was.
"It's a good life here, very peaceful," she said in fluent Spanish during an interview at the home her family renovated with help from the locals.
Finally, the item order was changed after the first and second pre-test studies to make the interview more fluent.
The most important modifications to the questionnaire that arose from this stage were 1) rearrangement of the sequence of items to make the interview more fluent, 2) rewording of questions, 3) addition of response categories, and 4) elimination of items that showed no variation.
Experienced female interviewers fluent in the local languages, Swahili and Giriama, conducted the interviews and transcribed the recordings.
Parents were interviewed in Vietnamese; children aged 10 years or older, all fluent in Norwegian, were interviewed in Norwegian.
