Audiofile: 56_South African.mp3

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 440.

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Nicole: it depends - English schools in South Africa are far more formal - especially the school I went to - which is the Pretoria High School for Girls - an only girls' school - an Anglican school at that - so it was quite formal - and - I didn't really enjoy my time there - the Afrikaans school was much more fun - not as posh and la-di-da as the - as the - English school - but - the people were much warmer they loved the idea of having an English person wanting to learn their language - that was a whole new idea to them - since they were usually the ones having to adapt - and there was there was lots of fun . . . Bobotie is very - OK it's actually a mince dish - with raisins and cloves in it - and - some special kinds of leaves - what are they called again - I can't remember what the leaves are called - funny name - bit of an exotic name - and it's - it's eaten with rice - which you - that yel­low kind of rice also with raisins - and you basically bake it in the oven - so it's a very spicy meat dish - South Africans eat a lot of meat by the way - a lot of meat they're real carnivores - and they also like eating potatoes and rice together - so a typical South African dinner - would be meat potatoes rice and a vegetable - some­thing else that's - is eaten in South Africa very often - especially among the black people - is what they call putupap or mealiepap - it's basically - crushed - crushed corn - and that's really ground into a into a sort of a powder - and then cooked up and then you get this type of white porridgy substance - and that's very filling - although not very nutritious - so - many poorer black people eat that - very often but - are malnourished because of it - so - those things are eaten quite often and what the black people also love eating - is - you know the intestines and brains and eyes and those things - those really are delicacies among the amongst the black people so Interviewer: but you don't eat them

Nicole: no - I couldn't - I couldn't really

1.2 Here is a text read aloud first by a) a British English speaker; b) an American English speaker; c) an Australian English speaker. Listen as many times as you need and note differences in pronunciation that you observe.

a) British English audiofile: Arthur the Rat_British.mp3

b) American English audiofile: Arthur the Rat_American(1).mp3