Can I use both ... as well as? Me and my colleague translated two similar texts from Czech into English. We have two different opinions on the following: 1) František Pospíšil (1885–1958), a noted ethnologist from Brno, was one of the scholars whose research aims and interpretations of the topics which he studied were determined both by his individual interests as well as by social context. 2) The paper demonstrates how the research direction and the interpretation of researched topics can be determined by both individual interests and social context. František Pospíšil (1885–1958), a noted ethnologist from Brno, ........ I am not sure about using both .... as well as. Can you give me an advice? Thank you , Zdenka

Can I have two negatives in a sentence? Hi, can somebody confirm, if I can write in English : "Not that I have never been to the festival before, this is not at all the case. I became an employee...." when I would like to say that I have been many times to the festival so far.. Thank you for your help. Zdenka

Can you correct the published text, please? I have translated the below text to be published on the poster inviting for an exhibition. IS this correct, please. Thank you. This exhibition explains earth as an important building material used in the country in Moravia. The main stress is put on traditional techniques used to build walls of mud buildings. This extinct tradition is represented mostly by disappearing building on the ground. The exhibition unveils a little the easy yet effective building techniques of the bygone generations and bears and important witness to their life.

Earth architecture .- is the text correct? I am translating a poster for an earth architecture exhibition. Can you correct the text published on the poster,please? Thank you. This exhibition explains earth (or mud?) as an important building material used in the country in Moravia. The main stress is put on traditional techniques used to build walls of mud buildings. This extinct tradition is represented mostly by disappearing building on the ground. The exhibition unveils a little the easy yet effective building techniques of the bygone generations and bears and important witness to their life.

Can somebody check my translation? Dear Friends, I am not very sure about the translation of the text below. Can somebody correct it please? Thank you, Zdenka For me personally, like for many folklore friends of mine and for the most musicians, singers and dancers, the “Strážnice Feast” – as the International Festival Strážnice is also titled – is a synonym for festive days, which repeat every year. It is the occasion to meet friends who are on the same wavelength, who look forward to what they can see and hear at the Festival and expect by what some programmes can enrich their knowledge about our folk traditions as well as those of other ethnic groups. They are mostly people who are active and have passion for different activities in a variety of cultural genres. For this reason, they are able to appreciate the performance of others and to create an unrepeatable atmosphere at the Festival auditoriums.

Fur coat with an uneven hem I am translating a text about different types of fur coats and other folk dress. Could you please confrim if the sentences below could be written as they are? Thank you very much He gave the figures on the frescoes at the chateau in Český Krumlov a character of masks wearing costumes with a certain level of stylization. However, based on the picture, it is not clear at all why this type of fur coat should be termed as fur coat with an uneven hem because it does not show any features like this and moreover, it is by no means similar to the garment from the other region

Ethnological study - is the sentence construction correct? I am translating a study on new traditions - and I am not sure with some sentences .- can you help me, please? Nowadays, ethnology can hardly make as if folklore traditions were only a phenomenon that independently lives in the villages as a part of the everyday life of the local inhabitants. When the American anthropologist John Forrest points out that the future of academic study of folklore and the fact whether folkloristics as a discipline can survive, is not quite clear at the beginning of the 21st century we are not very surprised by this.Where is the border between what we can call as construction (invented tradition to a larger or smaller extent) and what indisputably belonged to folk culture and continues in everyday culture?

Can a village come alive? The folowing text shall express that the villages are lively during the ceremony. Can I write it like this? Looking like (lighting up like) colourful dots on the map of South-Eastern Moravia, every year several villages come alive with an archaic ritual of royal horseback processions whose origin is unclear. Yet the National Institute of Folk Culture has set itself an immodest target to explain you its nature, history, and especially current form at least partially. Thank you very much

Case study - Bloody Mary Besides the critical assessment of previous researches into this syncretic phenomenon, which is internationally one of the most thoroughly studied expressions of children’s folklore, the study focuses on national and international historical parallels. Alongside the field documentation with its numerous versions and variations, and the accompanying narrations explaining the origin of this mysterious apparition, which sometimes corresponded to the types of popular legends The Vanishing Hitchhiker or La Llorona (presenting a ghost of a girl who died in a car crash, or that of a woman who killed or lost her children), its social function and cultural importance was interpreted as well. - this is a translation from Czech into English - is this correct please? Thank you