Who's good at languages?

[watervole]

 Is anyone on my flist fluent (or reasonably so) in Spanish/Portuguese/Hungarian/German/Dutch/Greek/almost any European language that has a maypole dance tradition with ribbons?

I found Greek and Dutch dances today.  I think it's pretty safe to assume that almost any country in Southern Europe will turn out to have a maypole dance with ribbons (and Northern Europe to have maypole dances without ribbons)

Google Translate isn't up to the job at the level I need.

I need people willing to do a little bit of research for me (not masses) and ask occasional questions on You Tube.

I think at least two of those languages are on my flist, but I know people only have limited free time.

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[lonemagpie.livejournal.com]

sweetheartwhale will know a few, and I can doubtless remember some French and German, and read a bit of Spanish...

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

I have already started a search for Czech or Moravian or Russian ones!

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I'll be very interested to see if you find any. The biggest problem is finding the correct phrase in the local language.

Ones I have found so far transliterate as: the cords, ribbon dance, braid dance, stick tape dance. Also, the Peruvian one is called after kind of woven basket as the plaited cord looks like the basket weave.

Online dictionaries and Google translate are rarely of any help.

I don't think they exist in Northern Europe. Then again, two weeks ago, I didn't think they existed in Latin America!

[jthijsen.livejournal.com]

I'm Dutch, but know little to nothing about maypoles. I'm willing to give it a shot, though.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

What's your email address? The dances I have found so far are here - http://pinterest.com/judithproctor/boards/ - I need your email address to give you access to the spreadsheet I'm starting.

Then I'll tell you how you can be helpful with finding Dutch information.

Thanks!

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Here's the Pinterest site where I'm sorting dances into countries - http://pinterest.com/judithproctor/boards/

If you can tell me which email addresses you use most often, I'll give you access the spreadsheet I've started on Google drive and tell you what information I need to hunt down in other languages.

Thanks!

[jthijsen.livejournal.com]

My e-mail is info at kattenvrouwtje dot nl.