Thanksgiving

RUNASIMI-PERÚ (Language of Peru) Temporary backup Part of a series using articles mainly from the Massey Archive. S ee/click Welcome_to_Spanish. Our language consultant Dr A Frazer Day says “Spend just 10 minutes translating into Spanish every day” and in 365 days your written Spanish will be excelente. Nothing wrong with a phrase a day. Occasionally we will look at the way other Peruvian languages have affected Peruvian Spanish. Thanksgiving Day 22 November 2012 By way of a Thanksgiving Day greeting the November 22, 1972 article from the Massey clippings archive has been selected. Exactly 40 years ago. A. Basic Spanish practice (translate the following) "A Thanksgiving Day service will be held tomorrow at 12:30 pm [23 November 1972] at the . . . . . . . Church. President Nixon's Proclamation will be read." Hints 1. A Thanksgiving Day service can be translated as Una misa del día de acción de gracias. 2. Instead of “will be held” try “there will be”. Use “haber” (not “ser” or “estar” - why?). Dates – insert “of/de” and months have lower case letters: 25 de diciembre del 1972. In Castillian Spanish you can hold a cup or an apple. . ..

3. The genitive / possessive case -'s- is rendered by “de” in Spanish – de/del Pesidente. . . . 4. Words ending in “ation” are often latin-rooted and hence similar to the Spanish. Except our funny pronunciation of the t. . . “ation” becomes “ación”. E.g. ponunciación. Remember the accent or tilde. BUT in this case “proclama”. 5. “Will be read”. Try “One will give a reading”! 6. Jot your translation onto a piece of paper and hand over to your CT (translation buddy)! The original version can be found within the article below. 7. See Welcome_to_Spanish & the Massey archives (articles similar to the one shown) for an explanation of this series. 8. No peeping at the bilingual translation if you want that extra slice of turkey. No peeping at the bilingual translation if you want that extra slice of turkey B. More advanced 1. Translate any other part from the English (left column) into Spanish and get your CT to assess it using the bilingual (right column). 2. Provide in Spanish or other Peruvian language a critique of the 1972 Proclama in the light of US-Peruvian history. .