Linguist Scout Interest Badge

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Badge requirements

Linguist
Linguist
  1. Hold a continuous meaningful conversation with another person (not using mother tongue), directing a stranger to local landmarks.
  2. Discuss topics relating to Scouting activities, demonstrating a knowledge of the most common terms used for such concepts as Patrol, camp, cooking and first aid.
  3. Translate into your home language a newspaper article of topical interest not exceeding 300 words written in another language. You may use a dictionary.
  4. Translate into both of the chosen non-mother tongue languages an instruction of no fewer than 100 words written in your home language.
  5. Describe, in both chosen non-mother tongue languages and in chronological order, the events which have taken place in a mock accident or similar incident set up by the examiner.
    OR
    Act as a translator between two people having a conversation for ten minutes. Translation should be done both ways

Requirements in PDF


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