Chilean Spanish vs. traditional Spanish

Question

I am currently trying to translate a piece of text from a Chilean university into English and am having trouble regarding some of the grammar. I have heard before that the third person can be used as 'you' in Chilean but was unsure whether this is third person singular or plural and how this would be implemented.

For example: 'Los alumnos postulan a la Universidad en Postulación en Línea, señalando sus credenciales académicas y carrera a la cuál postularán. Adjuntan documentación requerida según vía de ingreso a la Oficina de Admisión para su evaluación interna en la Universidad y en el plazo de 5 días hábiles se les responderá sobre su selección y matrícula a la institución.'

For this section would you refer to the students using they or you? I am not clear on how the Chilean grammar differs to traditional Spanish.

Thankyou for your help.

Welcome to SpanishDict. - rac1, Dec 22, 2016

Answer 1

The subject of the the first sentence is "Los alumnos," and that carries on in all the rest of the sentences and an indirect object in the last one. So the references are clearly "they" and "them" and "their."

Proper written Spanish doesn't vary much from one country to another. There is some lexical variation, but not enough to cause "problemas".

Answer 2

It would help a lot more if you gave it a shot at an English translation and provided that to us.

In terms of the differences between "Chilean" Spanish and "Traditional" Spanish; there isn't much of one.

These are the third person plural verbs used in the paragraph:

postulan
postularán
Adjuntan

Answer 3

I translated it as: 'Students apply to the university by using the online application system, highlighting their academic credentials and the degree which they will be applying for. They should attach the required documentation according to the admission procedure at the Admissions Office for internal assessment at the university and within five working days they will receive a response regarding their selection and enrolment to the university.'

However I was not sure whether i should be using 'you' instead of 'they' as this is sometimes the case for Chilean texts.

"You" instead of "they" only happens based off of context. It has NOTHING to do with the Chilean dialect/text. I know this because I lived with a Chilean. - codyandrews1993, Dec 22, 2016