Girl Guides - Thanksgiving Day

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Girl Guides / Girl Scouts las Guias Scouts [in Spanish gender is indicated by the article "las" so "Girl" is largely redundant] See Asociación Nacional de Guías Scouts del Perú.

To hold (an event) realizar - "are held" (passive / impersonal) is rendered by se realizan (they hold / one holds).

to. . . (in subordinate clause - in order to) para

to draw up plans para planear proyectos

to aim at [have as its goal] tiene como meta

character development [compound nouns - vital in German and OK in US English but traditionally used in moderation within UK English - careful about the difference between character and personality: the latter sometimes being called the PR of the former!] desarrollo de la personalidad



without discrimination of any kind and without any political ends [but all organisations have some ideology, even if its implicit. This description captures the objectives of the Scouts approximately halfway (1972) in their jouney from being Eurocentric and being (seemingly) submissive to flag, authority (photo 1922) and church to their contemporary global image] sin distincción de ninguna clase y sin fines políticos.

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Course in (a) written translation into English for Spanish-speakers and (b) into Castillian (Peruvian) Spanish for English and other speakers

The course is free and works like this. (a) For Spanish-speakers: You will be sent (or you set up a feed of) a passage to translate into English from Spanish. This is the hard way round for Spanish-speakers. It’s good at this stage for practice but think twice before accepting a commission to translate into a language which is not your mother-tongue without the help of a native speaker. No matter how good you are (there are of course exceptions!) you will make tiny give-away mistakes! (b) is t'other way round. . .you translate the text (on the left above) using the vocab help column (on the right). . . see introduction for further help items.

Many of the texts were written by journalist Peggy Massey around forty years ago and refer to aspects of life in Peru, especially Lima. (Social work, buildings, ceremonies, organisations etc) Tags: Massey | Events | Lima events | Language | Selected 80