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If the people spying on you are motivated enough, they'll find someone fluent in that language to fully translate, including the nuance.
Maybe if you used an extremely obscure language there there just aren't many people who speak it, they would be unable to find someone. But that just becomes an arms race with you trying to find a language obscure enough to overcome their motivation to spy on you and/or their available resources to find a translator. It's a lot of up-front effort for you, presuming you don't already know the language and have to learn it ... and it's far from a guaranteed success.
You may have better results with an invented language, one that only you and the people you're talking to know. And the less similar it is to any existing language, the more difficulty they'll have in trying to decipher it. Still, not a foolproof plan -- if they record enough conversations and pay some intelligent linguists to analyze it, they may begin to be able to decipher at least parts of what you're saying. And even more up-front effort now: you have to invent a whole language and everyone in the conversation has to learn it.
The more reasonable and practical way would be to learn what sort of speech is and isn't legally actionable and then tailor your conversation to avoid the legally actionable part. Think of the mob boss telling his underlings 'This guy bothers me. I wish he would go away.' His underlings understand that as instructions to go kill that guy. But it's vague and remains plausibly deniable in court. If that conversation was recorded, the recording would not be slam-dunk evidence against the mob boss.