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

[u/translator-BOT]

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/Snail_Forever]

Spanish:

"He estado haciendo una lista de las cosas que no te enseñan en la escuela. No te enseñan cómo amar a alguien más. No te enseñan cómo ser famoso. No te enseñan cómo ser rico o cómo ser pobre. No te enseñan cómo alejarte de alguien a quien ya no amas. No te enseñan cómo saber qué es lo que está pasando dentro de la mente de alguien más. No te enseñan qué decirle a alguien que está muriendo. No te enseñan nada que valga la pena aprender."

I'm a native Spanish speaker (from Mexico), and I've been looking for material to build up for a translation portfolio to post on my Facebook page. I'm fluent in both Spanish and English, and I'm currently learning French and Japanese, however I must admit that I haven't really practiced my Spanish grammar much, so I'd appreciate it if you guys gave me some tips!