principles, law in Spanish?

[doug]

Lisa--

Thank you.

I suspect most of the people will be of Mexican descent, but we may not
know till the first day.

I also suspect that there will be almost no English spoken during the
event, except by me. Many may not even have much English. The area where
I am going is a Spanish-speaking enclave in our City.

Your idea of walking opposite each other appeals to me, but it might be
a little tough to choreograph!

I will ask her if color coding the name tags for flavors of Spanish
makes sense, for the reason you suggest.

Thanks, Lisa!

			:- Doug.



On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 20:45 -0700, Lisa Heft wrote:
> Folks - in addition to the article on the home page in Spanish,  
> Swedish and English,
> http://www.openingspace.net
> I have an international glossary of Open Space terms and phrases on my  
> website, thanks to several of you dear colleagues.
> However I will be updating the website so the glossary is more  
> accessible -and- my site was hacked into a few years ago and used for  
> spamming so a few of the files (such as those in diverse-from-my-own  
> alphabets - Korean, Arabic, Hebrew for example) became corrupt and I  
> must reconstruct them, which I will do soon.  Plus several of you have  
> sent me additional languages to add (if *you* see a language that is  
> not here, email me directly and I shall send you a worksheet for  
> translation - thank you!). So more languages will come in the future.
> See http://www.openingspace.net/glossary.shtml
> And those of us who speak certain languages may have different  
> approaches to different wordings because of our region or culture or  
> understandings of the nuances of a word or phrase.
> 
> Doug, simply go through the entire event as a talk-through (and then a  
> walk-through) with her, so she will have a chance to get a feel, ask  
> questions, discuss definitions of the words you use so she can select  
> good ways to describe them culturally (not translate them just  
> literally).  Decide how you will do this together (will she walk the  
> circle with you? Next to you? Opposite you? Stand at the outside of  
> the circle and echo you? Some other approach?)
> My other recommendation is - if these Latina entrepreneurs are from a  
> certain country (as sometimes happen) seek to translate into their own  
> regional / country kind of Spanish - if they are from mixed Spanish- 
> speaking countries, seek to translate into a more universal Spanish.
> 
> Plus do not leave it up to her. A great idea is to color-code peoples'  
> name badges with little dots so that if anyone wants to shift into  
> Spanish or needs translation into Spanish they can choose to help each  
> other rather than to wave the translator over to their discussion  
> group, as often happens - 'whisper translation'. It helps the group  
> understand its own capacity and self-organize to take care of each  
> other.
> 
> My two cents, in any language,
> Lisa
> 
> 
> 
> On May 18, 2010, at 6:12 PM, douglas germann wrote:
> 
> > Jaime, Michael, Raffi, and Juan Luis--
> >
> > Thank you each for your wonderfully responsive and quick help to me.
> >
> > And for being gracious in how you pointed out that I missed the  
> > answers
> > on Lisa's site, right where I had been looking! <embarrassed grin>
> >
> > You have helped me a lot. I have passed your information along to my
> > "translator/facilitator" so she has ample time to read up, and so we  
> > can
> > then practice together.
> >
> > I have no Spanish at all. She has no OST experience. So I could use  
> > your
> > advice--everyone!--on how to best work together....
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > 			:- Doug.
>   
> 
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