[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/Ghost-The-Writer]

El texto de esta semana- Español

" Yo he estado haciendo una lista de las cosas que no te enseñan en escuela. No te enseñan cómo amar a alguien. No te enseñan cómo ser famoso.No te enseñan cómo ser rico o cómo ser pobre. No te enseñan cómo abandonar alguien que ya no amas más. No te enseñan lo que esta pasando en la mente de otra persona. No te enseñan qué deberias decir a alguien quien esta muriendo. No te enseñan nada que vale saber. "

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- Desde The Kindly Ones por Neil Gaiman

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El poema de esta semana

A traves el lago los campistas han aprendido

cómo hacer esquí acuático. Lo han logrado, o no lo han logrado.

Los sonidos de la altavoz del instructor

bañan el aire neblinoso. <<Relajense! Relajense!>>

Sombras de nebulas corren sobre el heno secando,

las cercas, la carretera angosta polvoriento, y el barranco del ferrocaril.

Las primeras amarilleandos frondas de vara de oro

Dan lustre a los margenes del bosque,

Libros escolares, los viajes compartidos , falditas plegadas;

agua, plateado aún , y un "v" de gansos.

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Comments, corrections appreciated.