Things haven't developed exactly how I wanted them to, but I'm not dead yet, so I still have time to attain some goals. But along the way, I've found something interesting: doing the sound board for some foreign language stations--they're all foreign languages, all the time. I haven't started working there yet because I have to actually be hired, but I've got a good chance. Unfortunately, they're languages I don't understand, such as Russian, Polish, and Korean. I asked the dude in charge how he can work a board for shows he doesn't understand, and he said they just point at you to give you cues to play whatever they've told you to play (the on-air folks are bilingual). At one point when we were talking on the phone, he had to put me on hold, and I heard a Korean song, then a commercial. The only think I could make out were the endings ("da" and "o" which are similar to "desu" and "masu" in Japanese) and I could tell that they were saying numbers. Another day I heard a Polish commercial, and guessed a similar thing--that they were saying numbers, which was probably a phone number.
So if I do end up getting some work there, it would be a good blend of two things I love: radio and languages!
2 comments:
Does Chicago's Polish population still support a Polish-language newspaper? Certainly new Polish immigrants are still arriving in Chicagoland (the owner's of Al and Sally's Hotel near the Dunes are fairly recent immigrants, I think).
A Chicago cohort not too long ago was trying to strike up a date with a Polish girl, a recent immigrant working as a bartender while going through university.
I was hoping to hit Chicago this summer. I got close, but not into the city proper, where I've been wanting to go so I can take the Gangland Tours or whatever. Checking out the St. Valentine's Day Massacre site and other gangland sites would be rather interesting.
I'm sure there are Polish newspapers--Chicago still has the largest Polish population outside of Poland.
There's a gangster tour here--the Untouchables Tour. Or you can see some modern gangbangers if you go to the right neighborhoods. ;)
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