# The right to understand

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxO'Porto
- Speaker: Sandra Fisher-Martins
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Law, Languages and linguistics, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/sandra_fisher_martins_the_right_to_understand)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Medical, legal, and financial documents should be easy to read, but too often they aren't. With spot-on (and funny) examples, Sandra Fisher Martins shows how overly complex language separates us from the information we need -- and three steps to change that. In Portuguese with English subtitles.

## Lectures

1. [The right to understand](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/sandra_fisher_martins_the_right_to_understand/f88e80a6c530), 16 min (TED's player)