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Spain Four - Text

Recorded by Krista Scott, 2002. Edited by Paul Meier 11.17.2002. Running time 00:04:41.

TRANSCRIPTION
I am 29 years old and (um) I born in Spain, San Sebastian. It is in the north (um) close to, close to France. So (um) I’m living in, in the coast (um) in Atlantic ocean. (Um) it a tourist city (um) a lot of people whatever part of this world knows (um) knows San Sebastian visit, the people say it is the most beautiful city of Spain. Everyone has in each province their accent so, naturally we live in the north and we speak Basque and Castilian. So the people from other, other province can tell in a second because the Basque language  is a (um) so different than the Spanish is like Germany or more difficult, is a dialect.  And, we have a excellence wines made in [...?] and we export to, to the rest of the Spain and the rest of Europe and Tacolli [sp.?]  is a name for one of the, the best wines Tacolli [sp.?]. You heard about tortilla de patatas, is a Spanish typic food is a  p…? with egg and you made a. Its no Mexican tortilla with bread, we call tortilla different than Mexican, tortilla is with egg for us. So (um) its really typic and tapas, you hear about tapas, yes are little pieces of bread and on top (um) the food like really artist food. And they cooked (um) cooker the, cook in the kitchen like a small plates, they put on top of the bread and it’s excellent…

UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY KARINA LEMMER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR SOUTH AFRICA, May 7, 2008

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