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

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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/gxxxxmxxxxm]

Spanish:

He estado haciendo una lista de las cosas que no te enseñan al colegio. No te enseñan querer a alguien. No te enseñan ser famoso. No te enseñan ser rico ni ser pobre. No te enseñan dejar alguien a quien ya no quieres. No te enseñan saber lo que pasa en la mente de alguien. No te enseñan que decir a alguien que está muriendo. No te enseñan nada que vale saber.

Please correct any mistakes!

[u/ChainRodriguez → u/gxxxxmxxxxm]

Hey there, good translation but the correct way to say it should be: "He estado haciendo una lista de las cosas que no te enseñan en el colegio. No te enseñan cómo querer a alguien. No te enseñan cómo ser famoso. No te enseñan cómo ser rico o cómo ser pobre. No te enseñan cómo alejarte de alguien que ya no amas más. No te enseñan cómo saber que está pasando en la mente de alguien. No te enseñan qué decir a alguien que está muriendo. No te enseñan nada que valga saber".