Learn Nothing Day: January 2009

Real and imagined languages

GERMAN:

Erster Internationaler Welt-nichtslerntag

translated by Bea Mantovani, who also contributed Mandarin:

CHINESE:

Just for fun:
Mandarin Chinese (I hope you can read the characters, I wrote it in
phonetics next to it just in case.)
第一国际无会日 (di yi guo ji wu xue ri)
(not 100 % sure this would sound great to a native ;-)

SAMOAN:

O le aso e leai se mea afia.

emmy tofa

HINDI, KANNADA, MARATHI

From Hema A. Bharadwaj in Pune, India:

It's "Aaj kuch mat seekho". Meaning "don't learn anything today" in Hindi.
And in Kannada it is "Evat enoo kali byadaa"
and in Marathi it i s "Aaz kaahi shikoo nakaa"

LOLSPEAK:

Learn Nothing Day translated into lolspeak:

dai wut bees fur lernin nuttin

http://icanhascheezburger.com/
http://lolcats.com/

but no klikn doze linx on dai wut bees for lernin nuttin! humorz be
notoryus fur sneekin inta yuz brainiaks and makin yez lurn stuffiez.

Joyce

KLINGON:

ghoj pagh jaj
(If someone would like to expand on that or correct the grammar, that would be fine. Nancy Wooten is not fluent in Klingon, but did the best she could.)

OP:
I've translated it into the "op" language I used as a kid: Lopearopnop Noptophopinopgop Dopayop

(add "op" to every consonant (including "y" whether it's used as a vowel or consonant).

Robin B.
(Ropobopinop Bop)

O Dia de Nao Aprender Nada

PORTUGUESE:

"O Dia de Nao Aprender Nada "

Alex Polikowsky, Ambassador to Unschoolers (if any) in Portugal and Brazil

That last comment was written in 2008, and now in 2014, there are MANY unschoolers in Portugal and Brazil!

Several things have been translated, and there is a video with subtitles, mostly done by Marta Pires and Alex Polikowsky. Traduções em Português de algumas informações sobre o "unschooling".

El Dia de No Aprender Nada

SPANISH

The first translation was "El primer Dia Internacional de Aprender Nada", but later Barbara wrote this:

My translation spurred some internal disagreement (as so many do) about the use of the double negative in Spanish: Part of me still wants to call it "El Dia de NO Aprender Nada", as that sounds more natural, while my initially submitted contribution was "El Dia de Aprender Nada" as a more literal "Learn Nothing" day translation, which to me has some philosophical connotations (not just that we would try NOT to learn that day, but that by "learning nothing" we would be somehow "learning about nothing" if you will, which I realize is contrary to the intent of the holiday :) but still struck me as meaningful in context. So, my disclaimer is, for a purist, the transilation "El Dia de No Aprender Nada" might be more appropriate.
—
Barbara Perez

La Prima Giornata Mondiale del "Oggi non si impara"

Chi pratica l' "Unschooling" (ovvero, l'apprendimento naturale ed autonomo) ha bisogno di una vacanza. Quando qualcuno chiede se fanno scuola famigliare anche durante l'estate, loro rispondono sempre di si. Quando qualcuno chiede se mai prendono una pausa dall'apprendere, loro rispondono di no.

Ed è molto tempo che questo succede.

Il 24 Luglio, 2008 sarà la prima (e forse l'ultima) Giornata Mondiale dell' "Oggi non si impara", una vacanza per chi fa "unschooling," anche se può essere celebrata da chiunque lo desideri.

Per i cittadini dell'Utah la Giornata dell' "Oggi non si impara" sarà celebrata il 25 di Luglio.

Italian translation by Melissa Dietrick and family. Thank you!

Learn Nothing Day pages in English and in French.

La Journée Sans Rien Apprendre

Programme préliminaire
pour la première célébration internationale de
« LA JOURNEE SANS RIEN APPRENDRE »

Les unschoolers ont besoin de congés. Lorsqu'on leur demande s'ils s'instruisent en été, ils répondent "oui". Lorsqu'on leur demande s'ils se reposent parfois de tous ces apprentissages, ils répondent "jamais".

Et cela fait bien longtemps que ça dure.

Le 24 Juillet 2008 sera la première (et peut-être la dernière) journée annuelle "Sans rien apprendre" pour les unschoolers, bien qu’elle puisse être fêtée par quiconque le désire.

"La Journée Sans Rien Apprendre" (Learn Nothing Day) sera célébrée le 25 juillet dans l'Utah (les citoyens de l'Utah sauront
pourquoi.)"

Plus sur unschooling, en français (More about Unschooling, in French)

Translation by Sylvie Martin and Jeanine Barbé, with the help of Bea Mantovani
and the offer of more help by Anne Mills. Thank you all!

DISCUSSION about the word choices:

"La Journée Sans Rien Apprendre" is a fully translated page here

There were some problems with translating "void in Utah":

Sylvie wrote:
"With Jeanine, we had difficulties for the word : VOID. I think we understood.. is it like "Day off" ? If yes, it's "jour férié" in french."

Sandra:
Sylvie, it's like that day is not allowable, or is not applicable, or is cancelled out in Utah for the 24th. (It's because they have a big state holiday that day, Pioneer Day, and it's all about celebrating the history of Utah.)

Anne Mills wrote:
Whooo that is a tricky one ;-)

I would offer "pont" but not entirely sure, as it is in French the meaning of a day off that allows to connect with the pending week end.
Otherwise I dunno.

Bea Mantovani wrote:
I would write: "La Journée Sans Rien Apprendre" sera célébrée le 25
juillet dans l'Utah (les citoyens de l'Utah sauront pourquoi.)

or maybe

...sera exceptionellement célébrée le 25 juillet dans l'Utah...

or something like that

Bea
ps: I like "sans rien apprendre"! I was thinking it could be translated "la journée où on apprend rien" but that sounded kind of awkward... It's not easy translating "learn nothing day" in another language. lol (that might make it hard to learn nothing for people who speak several languages... what if they start thinking about how to translate the name of the holiday? lol)