{"id":"lang-spanish-formal-email-translation","audience":"office","category":"language-learning","technique":"audience","track":"study","title":"Translate a formal email into Spanish and keep it formal","free":false,"task":"You need to send a formal email to a supplier in Madrid. Get the Spanish translation, then a line \"Formal choices:\" and exactly 2 numbered lines in English, each naming one formal Spanish phrase you used and why, under 15 words each. Keep usted throughout, write the meeting date as \"4 de marzo\" since Spanish readers would read 3/4 as April 3, and don't translate your bracketed note to yourself. Plain text.","materialLabel":"Your draft email (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"DRAFT EMAIL (from Mark Ellison, Purchasing, Northfield Furniture)\n\nTo: Ms. Carmen Paredes, Sales Director, Textiles Paredes (Madrid)\n\nDear Ms. Paredes,\n\nThank you for sending the fabric samples last week. Our design team was very impressed with the quality of the linen.\n\nWe would like to schedule a video call on 3/4 at 4:00 p.m. your time to discuss pricing for an order of 2,000 meters. [note to self: ask Raj if we can go up to 2,500 before the call]\n\nCould you please confirm whether this time works for you? We would also appreciate it if you could send your current price list before the meeting.\n\nKind regards,\nMark Ellison\nPurchasing Manager, Northfield Furniture","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":2},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Keeping the US date","why":"The AI copies 3/4, which a reader in Spain takes as April 3.","fix":"Add: \"Write the date as 4 de marzo.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Translating your private note","why":"The AI translates everything, including the note you never meant to send.","fix":"Add: \"Leave out the bracketed note to self.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Not checking the formality","why":"Without a nudge the AI may drift into casual tú, and you can't tell if you don't speak Spanish well.","fix":"Add: \"Use usted throughout, then explain 2 formal choices in English.\"","checks":["r0","r2","numberedItems"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it's going","why":"AI adds bold and headings that show up as stray symbols in an email.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Asks for usted","patterns":["usted","formal"]},{"label":"Fixes the date","patterns":["4 de marzo","march 4","date"]},{"label":"Drops the private note","patterns":["note to self","bracket","leave out","raj"]},{"label":"Asks to explain choices","patterns":["formal choices","explain","\\b(2|two)\\b.{0,20}(line|choice|phrase)"]},{"label":"Sets a length limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)","under \\d+"]}],"hint":"A translation for business has to keep the tone and work for the reader. Tell the AI how formal, how to write the date, what to leave out, and ask it to show you its formal choices.","rubricLabels":["The translation uses usted forms throughout (no tú forms like 'puedes' or 'te') and writes the date as '4 de marzo', not 3/4","The bracketed note to self about Raj and 2,500 meters is not translated or included","After the translation, a 'Formal choices:' line is followed by exactly 2 numbered lines in English, each naming a Spanish phrase from the translation"]}