permaculture

[April Sampson-Kelly <askpv@ozemail.com.au>]

NEWS for 1997 - we going into our first translation!!! our first course 
translation will be in Spanish.
Professional translators are encouraged to trade translation for payment of 
course fees.
This is the scenario:

Our students are supplied with a big store of information (450 a4 pages) on 
concepts and technologies; the course is updated weekly, with the most useful 
input, we've discovered, coming from the wide range of students - they enjoy 
reading each others ideas.  Each student has a personal tuition and feedback 
- via email or post.  
We serve students who are committed to understanding the complex solutions 
for global problems.  The students are usually very well read, practical and 
self-motivated.  they work in isolation well and so are valuable to 
permaculture in that they are on the edge, they are real pioneers.
We are very proud of the standard of the graduates.  It is very high, they 
are active as writers and leaders in permaculture.  The notes our presented 
in Plain English, are sent on paper or (9) discs for PC and Mac.  There is 
unlimited feedback, no exams and self-paced learning.

We can see that translation is the next step and finally this is starting!!
Being Australian, and having a very mixed culture here with no formal second
language - even our indigenous tribes have a different languages - I'd
appreciate ideas on 
how to maximise the benefits, 
avoid any pitfalls, and 
direct people to good literature and resources available to them in their own 
language.

April
Leisure Coast Permaculture Visions
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~askpv/index.html