Another slightly different situation, but relevant to the pitfalls of dealing publicly with a language you don't understand
In the fifties Alan Lomax and Seamus Ennis went off to the Hebrides to record traditional song for the BBC
On one of the Islands (Lewis?) they recorded 'waulking songs' - improvised pieces, in Scots Gaelic, for stretching the newly woven tweed - Lomax had no Gaelic, but Ennis, being a noted Irish speaker, picked it up instantly.
Wherever he went, women swooned over Lomax, and the Island women improvised a song about "the handsome young American with fine hair, beautiful eyes, broad shoulders, manly chest..... right down his body, omitting none of the essential bits.
The recording was shipped off to London and played on the radio, the broadcasters being as unaware of the contents of the song as was Lomax - Ennis said nothing and was happy to wait and see how it all played out.
The Beeb was barraged with complaints about the "obscene" song for weeks afterwards.
Jim Carroll