At the morning teaching sessions the 3 Americans sat in the back so a translator could keep us in the loop without distracting too many other people. My language skills are coming along although there can be no expectation at this point that I could follow a highly intellectual speaker who is using the full capacity of his vocabulary. Our translator said the teaching will be difficult for many native speakers to grasp. So, as much as I would like to be at that level...patience, effort and more patience.