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Myriam: Good
morning guys!! Or good morning diggers!! As Australians say.
We are five
classmates of the University of Seville. We have been working in a blog project
for the last three months. In our blog “The distinctive English of Australia”,
you can find many interesting things about Australian language and culture. We
invite you to join us on australianenglishfeatures.blogspot.com.
And now, we
are in the University with Michelle to have an interview.She is an american girl and she describes herself
as a globetrotter. We have chosen this amazing girl because is too difficult to
find an Australian native.
Hi
Michelle!!
Michelle:
Hi guys!!
Myriam: Please, Tell us something about you. Where do
you come from?
Michelle: Mmm,well I was borned and raised in Kansas in the U.S.A, and I come from a small town, and decided to
I wanted to get out and go travel a bit, so I’ve been travelling for about 10 years,
I am now 29 and have visited around fifteen different countries,so that’s a
little bit about me, anything else? (Laughs)
Alicia: How
long have you been travelling?
Michelle: Sorry, yes. I’ve been traveling for nine or ten years and… yeah.
Alicia: Why
did you decided to come to Seville?
Michelle: I
really love the Spanish language, I love Spanish culture, and I was upon the north
of Spain and it was too cold so I came into Seville because is much warmer.
Julia: Wow,
wonderful!! We are glad you are here today with us. As you know our blog is
based on Australian language and culture. What does Australia mean to you?
Michelle: When
I think about Australia I think of wide open spaces, lots of freedom and kangaroos
of course. There's also, there is the Sidney Opera House and the beaches and
the coral reef, so the biggest thing I think about Australia is the nature and how they take care of that there, yeah.
Julia: Ok,
is it true that the plural form of you (youse) is considered as a bad habit?
Michelle: Youse,
I am not too familiar with, umm, but I know in the U.S.A there is "the y’all" that we use a lot and that’s consider just it’s not very educated, yeah.
Pedro: Ok,
Jazz is a kind of music which America and Australia share. What can you tell me
about that?
Michelle: Umm,
well, Jazz is really the base of all modern music actually
it started way back actually with the slaves in the U.S.A, and
obviously there is a whole lot of immigration between Australia and the U.S.A, so I imagine that’s
why there is that connection and it is really the base for hip hop, and rock ‘n roll,
and swing and… I love Jazz, I love listening to it..., I love other different styles and I
think I have to be more familiar with Australian Jazz.
Pedro: You
know there are some differences between the American slang and the Australian
one, like taxi and cab. Do you know other ones?
Michelle: Umm,
I do there’s obvious the underground versus the subway, and gas station versus
service station, or even just the basic one of sweater versus jumper...
Marta: Michelle,
one last question; which part of Australia would you like to visit?
Michelle: I always wanna to visit “Ayer Rocks” (be)cause I really love different cultures,
and specially indigenous cultures, and I know “Ayer Rocks” is quite the important monument for them there.
Marta: Ok,
so that’s all for today. Thank you very much for your help, and maybe someday
we will meet all together somewhere in Australia. Who Knows?
(farewell and thanks)
And now we are gonna have a drink with our friend Michelle to keep going talking about "some curious and interesting matters of Australia". :)
