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Interpreter

Use two languages besides your own: hold a conversation, write letters, translate, and help a foreign visitor.

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  • Syllabus page 21

What you need to do

Complete the following in any two languages other than his own.

  1. Carry on a simple conversation for approximately 10 minutes.
  2. Write a letter of approximately 150 words on a subject dealing with a Scout topic.
  3. After a few minutes for study, give an approximate translation of a paragraph from a newspaper or periodical.
  4. Assist as interpreter to a foreign visitor (this can be a staged version, not in actual life).
  5. Have corresponded with a Scout from a country other than his own for not less than 6 months, and in this time at least 4 letters should have been exchanged.
  6. Write letters for a Scout Group, school or similar body, for example helping the arrangements for a foreign visit or exchange.