Podcast-Interview

Hi everyone!! We would like to share with all of you our podcast interview with Michelle, a girl who defines herself as a globetrotter:

Don't worry if you don't understand anything, here we leave you a script to make the comprehension easier.

Script

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". :)