Languages at the OS site

[john engle]

artur,  you are good!  i agree with you.  i will benefit greatly from what
you translate into french.  in haiti, the reality is, if soemone has the
education and means necessary to check out a web-site, they already know how
to speak french.

nonetheless, especially with the future in mind, it will be important to
have it in creole as well.  for the time being, 80% of haiti's 8 million
people, do not read or right in their mother tongue of haitian creole. i put
it on my list of things to do during the next 6 months.

thanks for your willingness to do it in french and porteguese.

john

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>From  Sat Nov 18 10:18:27 2000
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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 10:18:27 -0800
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From: Lisa Heft <lisaheft at pacbell.net>
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Dear Erich -

I feel the hardest thing to do is to participate in a way
you feel expresses things exactly and perfectly, especially
when those things are things of the heart, the spirit, and
sharing how one sees the world.  And indeed, professional
and perfect translation is also a big challenge.

As Spanish is my second language, my past work in HIV/AIDS
education was in Spanish and in English.  And in Spanish I
always felt the challenge of talking both about science and
emotion (one can never be separated from the other in the
world of HIV) with just the right precise and jewel-like
words.  I had a native Spanish speaking colleague be the
lead facilitator in our trainings, but out in the world of
the peer support and information telephone line there were
many times when I needed to help a Spanish speaking peer
health educator or take calls that were in Spanish.

It takes a lot of courage and a lot of faith (in others and
in one's self) to participate as fully as possible in a
discussion in a different language.

You are amazing.

Warm greetings to you from Berkeley, California, USA,

Lisa

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> Erich Kolenaty wrote:
> >
> > May be a translation is helpful:
> >
> > Yes, it is an extra challenge to think, understand  and write in another
> > language. Especially, when it is not small talk.
> > Professional questions and answers always need precise descriptions and
> > wordings. This is not always easiliy to go
> > for me in english and sometimes has been a bar to participate in discussion.
> > But I am learning continouisly, thats the good news.
> >
> > And it makes me feel good, when sometimes somebody notices and appreciates
> > that people from other languages have to take a little hurdle to be there.
> > (this might be one of the reasons why so few folks e.g. from south of europe
> > are on the list)
> >
> > thank you and greetings to everybody from Vienna
> > Erich

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