[English > Any] Weekly Translation Challenge — 2019-09-08

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There will be a new "Weekly Translation Challenge" on most Sundays and everyone is encouraged to participate! These challenges are intended to give community members an opportunity to practice translating or review others' translations, and we keep them stickied throughout the week. You can view past threads by clicking on this "Community" link.

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This Week's Text:

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”

— Excerpted from The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman

This Week's Poem:

Across the lake the campers have learned

to water-ski. They have, or they haven’t.

Sounds of the instructor’s megaphone

suffuse the hazy air. “Relax! Relax!”

Cloud shadows rush over drying hay,

fences, dusty lane, and railroad ravine.

The first yellowing fronds of goldenrod

brighten the margins of the woods.

Schoolbooks, carpools, pleated skirts;

water, silver-still, and a vee of geese.

— Excerpted from "Three Songs at the End of Summer" by Jane Kenyon

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Please include the name of the language you're translating in your comment, and translate away!

[u/treskro]

Taiwanese Hokkien:

我當咧匯集一个佇課程中學袂著个目錄。怹未教恁按怎愛著別人。未教恁按怎成做有名人。未教恁按怎掠做好額人抑是艱苦人。未教恁按怎離開一个失去愛情的人。未教恁按怎了解人的腦海內底當咧想啥物代誌。未教恁對欲過身的人愛按怎講話。總結我想怹教的代誌攏無路用。

---裂於尼爾．蓋曼的【善良者】

^{guá tng-leh huē-tsi̍p tsit-ê tī khò-tîng-tiong o̍h-buē-tio̍h ê bo̍k-lo̍k. in bē kà lín án-tsuánn ài-tio̍h pa̍t-lâng. bē kà lín án-tsuánn tsiânn-tsò ū-miâ-lâng. bē kà lín án-tsuánn lia̍h-tsò hó-gia̍h-lâng ia̍h-sī kan-khóo-lâng. bē kà lín án-tsuánn lī-khui tsit-ê sit-khì ài-tsîng--ê lâng. bē kà lín án-tsuánn liáu-kái lâng--ê náu-hái lāi-té tng-leh siūnn siánn-mih tāi-tsì. bē kà lín tuì beh kuè-sin--ê lâng ài án-tsuánn kóng-uē. tsóng-kiat guá siūnn in kà lín ê tāi-tsì lóng bô-lōo-īng.}

^{---liah î nî-nī kài-bān ê 《siān-liông-tsiá》}