<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:06 well <{><[>where do you think would be a good place to live <[><&>sighs well somewhere <,> warm but not too warm tut somewhere tut where <{><[>we can <,> live legally laughs <[>this is going to end up being new zealand isn't it <{><[><.>somewhere <[><.>well where can i live legally except new zealand <,> so you want to live somewhere illegally well no but i mean <,> i have residency permanent residency only in one country <{><[>you can only GET permanent residency in another country through like living there for three years or five years or whatever you have to do and working there and stuff <[>yeah well <.>what what word well there's no point um arguing about this either you want to live somewhere where you CAN live or well i mean we might as well live somewhere <.>w where NEITHER of us can live laughs and then we both have to work to get to live there <&>1:00 i didn't say that was voc out of the question i'm just asking you whether you want to <,> live somewhere that you can definitely legally live <.>or but obviously you want to live somewhere where it might be possible to live <{><[>under <.>certain laughs <[>well i <.>mean well what are you trying to say that <.>just <.>w we can only <.>l legally live in probably australia or western samoa or somewhere like that no but i mean ultimately obviously you think we can live legally somewhere else i don't want to live anywhere illegally all right? voc i mean i just want to want to be realistic yeah <.>a voc yeah okay so according to you then okay where are the places that we can live then well I can live in new zealand laughs <.>or england australia <,> no <.>i i'd have to get a british passport <.>and yeah <.>a and that would just cost you a bit of money you could actually live there though you'll HAVE that british passport i can't GET the british passport <&>2:00 but um if you <.>get it's easier in britain maybe to get a work permit and just <,> work there and then um it's NOT EASY to get a work permit to work <{><[>in britain <[>it's <.>ea it is pretty easy to get a work permit <{><[>my um yeah my um <,> mother's cousin's <.>a well you know leigh anne who used to teach jody's sister <[>are you sure oh right yeah her and her husband have been in <.>over <.>al all over europe <.>well working well they've been in england working yeah go from one job to another do you have to have a job lined up first <,,> before you go <{><[>i don't know i don't think they had <,> anything <[>mm oh yeah <,,><&>3 so okay you want to live somewhere where you can live legally well i just want to know whether we're being <.>r <{><[>really realistic or whether we're saying if this happens and <,> if we're so rich that the country just WANTS us <&>3:00 <[>clears throat laughs <{><[>it could happen <[>laughs okay cos i can only live in new zealand and australia i don't have another passport i don't even have a new zealand passport <{><[>laughs <[>laughs you can't leave the country yeah <{><[>laughs <[>okay word that narrows it down um and no one i talked to knows anything about jamaica but why jamaica because it's near all those um ethnic cultures <.>except <{><[>um <[>but <.>what's what's so important about living near different ethnicities cos it's culturally enriching and at the same <{1><[1>time they speak english and stuff there and so it's not important that i don't know spanish or anything <,> cos i mean there's just no way i don't think that i could go and LIVE in colombia or something like that <{2><[2>because i don't speak spanish <[1><.>but <[2>but i think i think there are other places where you can find lots of different ethnic <{><[>backgrounds mixing london for example <&>4:00 <[>laughs you're talking about australia <{1><[1>laughs london <{2><[2>for example there'll be lots <{3><[3>of jamaicans there <[1>oh no <[2>laughs lots of <.>big <[3>touristy city kind of places what? there'll be a lot of jamaicans there but LONDON is not warm it <{><[><.>is <[>all the time so warm all the time when i <{1><[1>am there in the summer <{2><[2>laughs <[1>winter <[2>when you were there in the summer what how many times was that mm <,,> tut <.>but voc you don't want to go somewhere that's going to be too hot but i don't want to go somewhere that it's going to snow <.>i which is london surely it snows in invercargill doesn't it NO well queenstown must snow there they go skiing there laughs well yeah <{><[>but i don't live in queenstown <[><.>well well there you go no but close enough for <{><[>it to count <[>i DO NOT no i don't close enough to be freezing laughs okay well <&>sighs okay and now <.>what <{><[>well okay okay laughs okay <[>well okay i like snow just cos i live in invercargill cos of i <.>didn i didn't have much choice i was kind of born there <,> <&>5:00 tut okay so we're cutting off the top of the globe and the BOTTOM and we're looking <.>somewhere in the middle <{><[>laughs <[>near the equator but not too near it <{><[>because i hate the heat <[>well what about south america <{><[>it's word no <[>what about south africa <.>i voc i think that would be <{1><[1>rather an intriguing <{2><[2>place to live laughs south america <[1>no <[2>no word we're not going to south africa no what i'm <{><[>saying is it doesn't necessarily have snow there does it <[>isn't that really poor and horrible <,,> and it's in the bottom <,,> at the top it snows a lot eh like in canada and u s s r well snowy <{><[>sort of <[>mm well i'm just cutting off antarctica basically <{><[>word <[>oh okay <{><[>because we're at the bottom and we don't <[>i thought you were <.>talking yeah we're not too bad hey we could live here <{><[>laughs <[>i knew <.>it i knew you'd say that <,> um <,> australia i knew you going to say that too no but look i think that would be such <{1><[1>an interesting place to <{2><[2>go to <&>6:00 for a while <[1><&>sighs <[2>why why <,> tut because they're so weird <{><[>laughs <[>laughs laughs i know someone who went <{><[>there for a holiday and they hated all the australian word <[>and you never <.>meet you never meet australians in real life you just see them on soap operas oh <.>y <.>y you DO meet australians in <{><[>real life kurt's flatmate's from australia <[>tut i haven't so far <,> which one angie can't you tell by her accent <{><[>your brother was <.>in your brother was in australia and HE sounds like an australian <[>i haven't spoken to her no not <{><[>to me <[>he might as well be one he DOES to ME clears throat yeah but you <.>don't you don't know <.>w the way he speaks normally he normally speaks like an australian this is what you're saying well i don't <.>know <{><[>i don't know what you're hearing when you listen to him <[>laughs he <{><[>sounds australian <[>i don't know what I'M hearing like an accent like on t v <,,> nah OH <.>so what's her name on home and away sophie? is that her name off sultana bran <&>7:00 yeah <,> her accent my god it's AWFUL yeah australians have awful <{><[>accents <[>no but then i was listening to her accent specifically and the guy she was talking to voc his accent was not as bad so <.>it it varies yeah <.>but <,> <{><[>i don't like it at all but <&>sighs <[>i <.>think i think it's funny because <.>y because you just think <.>my laughs i speak a lot better than these <{><[>people laughs <[>yeah <.>and and you give your brother how many years and he speaks like them he doesn't though he DOES to me <{><[>he sounds like word australian word <[>no i think he's <.>al i think he's always spoken like that he's <{><[>always spoken like an australian <[>oh well i don't know i'm just guessing laughs yeah exactly well see this is the thing i think that if you're going to go to a country with a funny accent you'd better LIKE the accent <.>otherwise <.>cos <.>but <{><[><.>but yeah <[>you're going to be in trouble if you pick it up and then you're going to sound like that and i wouldn't <{><[>want to like sound like an australian <[><.>but if you sound like that then <.>you then <.>it <.>you it's not going to worry you because <.>you you can't hear it <{><[>and <.>it <[>i know but i don't like it and i don't want to sound like that well it'd be all right as long as you were there but if you moved out of the country <{><[>you wouldn't want to be mistaken for an australian <[>yeah well exactly well i don't want to live in <{1><[1>australia word so i'd be moving out of the country pretty quick so <{2><[2>i suppose word <[1>laughs <&>8:00 <[2>well your plans <.>are are more to go and live somewhere i want to <.>e experiment with everywhere australia first oh this is costing more bother <.>at at least if you just GO somewhere and just start working <{><[>there <[>costing more i thought we weren't being realistic about this OH i WAS almost jamaica you were just going to GET citizenship for jamaica or <{><[><.>resident <[>i was going to find out how to do it <{1><[1>for a start go and visit the place <,> wind up a job come back <{2><[2>word <[1>laughs <[2>wind up a job laughs mm doing what whatever i can do <,,> and <{><[>what's that <[>it <.>depends it depends what the criteria for getting in is well i think everywhere is pretty hard so is that really narrows our choices down but everywhere has different thingies nowhere in the world is easy to go and live why not cos that's the way the world is now <,> look after your own but if you're <{1><[1>educated it <.>like that's got to count for something <{2><[2><.>like well <.>i'm <.>i'm <[1>voc <&>9:00 <[2>a lot of educated people out there i'm not a refugee or anything i'm not a <{><[>word <[>well think about how hard it is to get into new zealand yeah but new zealand is <.>a um laughs is a <{><[>what laughs <[>o e c d country laughs jamaica might not be mm oh i wouldn't have a clue because um i mean yeah people leave these places like what if you want to go to nicaragua or something what if you do well shouldn't it be easy to get into a place like that where everybody wants to leave i don't know i really wouldn't have <,> <.>a any idea because why did germany have open policy of immigration was that something to do with the war yeah oh <.>th they were taking in refugees voc yeah for years yeah but that's refugees that's not people from new zealand yeah but they just <.>had easier to get in didn't they i'm not sure i think it might have been for specific countries <&>10:00 mm countries that hitler had killed or something mm oh i don't know so anyway we'll start in australia for a couple of years <,> and then <.>we'll then we'll <{1><[1>go somewhere <,> remote to get rid of the of the accent <{2><[2>laughs so that not <{3><[3>too many people hear us laughs <[1>laughs <[2>REMOTE? <[3>jamaica people hear us laughs oh do we have to go to australia for a couple of years mhm i think that would be cool why <,> are you not at ALL interested in australia no not at all never ever have EVER been but it's so big <.>does doesn't it make you wonder what's there <.>n no i've never been interested in australia i'm interested in EVERYWHERE <{><[>including australia well not russia <[>i'm not why not I'M interested in russia too cold and bleak not always it'd be interesting all that um i've seen them on t v it looks horrible laughs the people or the buildings <{><[>i was going to word buildings <[>all of them <&>11:00 oh some of the buildings are okay but yeah <{1><[1>the <.>pe the people look like um rotten potatoes <{2><[2>laughs <[1>yeah <[2>rotten potatoes define that you know kind of pasty kind of <.>s oh <{><[>yeah you know <[>well aren't potatoes brown <{><[>laughs <[><.>y <.>y well i was just thinking of the SHAPE of potatoes more <{><[>laughs <[>oh laughs you're nuts rotten potatoes <{><[>voc <[><.>i it was just <{1><[1>a kind of an example tut just sort of yeah ROUND and with <{2><[2>big bulges laughs well not round but you know the general shape laughs okay laughs okay potato was a bad example <.>but <[1>the shape <[2>word ROUND laughs bulges? yeah i think so yeah strange looking foreign kind of faces laughs well they are foreign <{><[>well zealand's <.>strange <[>i know but <.>i i find it hard to accept um voc people who have white skin as looking different from us cos i <.>ex <{><[>i <.>expect <&>12:00 <[>but they've got asian blood and stuff <{><[>that's why they've got slanted eyes and stuff <[>mm it's <.>just <.>it it looks really ODD to me i can't come to grips with it <.>well and yeah <{1><[1>their language <,> it would be so so hard to communicate with people like that <{2><[2>laughs people who couldn't speak english <[1>there's got to be more <.>of yeah <[2>laughs what is that supposed to mean yeah good and surely that would be the same <{><[><.>with laughs <[>in australia no i don't think so no i <.>mean voc WHAT? what are you trying to say i don't understand what you're saying i don't <.>like <{><[>i don't like the DESPAIR <[>what about word they've <.>got laughs <{><[>laughs <[>oh oh sorry well just you know when you see it on t v <.>a anyway i mean it might not be like that in reality i don't know mm having never been there tut but like you know and you've got no <{><[>interest in going word there <[>maybe it's just the poverty um well i mean i don't want to go to siberia or anywhere like that no just <{><[>moscow or something <[>but <.>just yeah oh yeah that would be okay <{1><[1>chernobyl places <{2><[2>like that laughs <[1>yeah <&>13:00 <[2>NO oh good one yeah a <.>o a one city kind of stop you know a two day tour of <{><[>the place <[>yeah <&>13:06