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<title>Meeting Nicholas Snow — Interview with a Local Resident</title>
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<span class="brand">Meeting <span>Nicholas Snow</span></span>
<a href="#story">The Story</a>
<a href="#listen">Listen</a>
<a href="#numbers">Numbers</a>
<a href="#fieldnotes">Field Notes</a>
<a href="#glossary">Glossary</a>
<a href="#quiz">Quiz</a>
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<span class="kicker">Interview a Local Resident · Context Class · English B2.2 · UNAM-Canada</span>
<h1>A stranger, a festival, and <em>fifty countries</em> that still aren’t home.</h1>
<p class="lede">
On a warm July evening in downtown Ottawa, a crowd dressed in black walked toward the river —
and one of them stopped to talk. This is my four-minute conversation with Nicholas Snow:
traveller, anglophone Montrealer, and proud Canadian.
</p>
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<span class="chip">📍 O’Connor & Bank St., Ottawa</span>
<span class="chip">🎶 Bluesfest — Limp Bizkit & Cypress Hill</span>
<span class="chip">📅 July 12, 2026</span>
<span class="chip">☀️ 29 °C</span>
<span class="chip">🎙️ 4 min 05 s</span>
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<div class="sec-head"><span class="sec-num">01</span><h2>How I met him</h2></div>
<p class="sec-sub">
My account of the encounter, revised for this handout.
<span class="legend"><span class="swatch">Highlighted</span> phrases were corrected — tap any of them to see my original wording and the grammar behind the fix.</span>
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<h3>Corrected version</h3>
<div class="prose serif">
<p>I was <mark class="fix" data-orig="sitting down on a bench" data-note="“Sit down” describes the movement of taking a seat. For the position you are already in, use “sit / be sitting”.">sitting on a bench</mark>
<mark class="fix" data-orig="in O Connor or Bank Street" data-note="Streets take the preposition “on” in North American English — and O’Connor needs its apostrophe.">on O’Connor or Bank Street</mark>
when I noticed some
<mark class="fix" data-orig="alternative-dressed men" data-note="An adverb (“alternatively”) modifies the participle “dressed”, so no hyphen is needed.">alternatively dressed men</mark>
— and a few women —
<mark class="fix" data-orig="walking fast together" data-note="“Fast” works in speech, but “quickly” is the safer adverb in writing.">walking quickly together</mark>
towards the river. I knew
<mark class="fix" data-orig="they were going all to a festival" data-note="“All” sits after the auxiliary and before the main verb: “they were all going”.">they were all going to a festival</mark>,
and at that moment
<mark class="fix" data-orig="I wished it would have been free to access" data-note="A wish about the past takes the past perfect: “wish + had + past participle” — never “would have”. And events are “free to enter”, not “to access”.">I wished it had been free to enter</mark>.
<mark class="fix" data-orig="So I saw a guy alone just walking" data-note="“Then” sequences the story better than “so” here, and “walking alone” is the natural word order.">Then I saw a guy walking alone</mark>,
and it occurred to me to ask him
<mark class="fix" data-orig="which kind of concert that was" data-note="Embedded questions keep statement word order (“…it was”), and “what kind” is used for open choices.">what kind of concert it was</mark>.</p>
<p>He told me it was Bluesfest, and that Limp Bizkit and Cypress Hill were playing that day.
He also told me that the concert was unfortunately not free, but that
<mark class="fix" data-orig="he got his ticket still in time" data-note="The earlier past action takes the past perfect, “manage to” expresses success against difficulty, and “still” goes before the verb.">he had still managed to get a ticket in time</mark>,
just for that single day. We
<mark class="fix" data-orig="began small talk" data-note="Collocation: you “make small talk”.">started making small talk</mark>,
and he explained that he was there for work and that those bands
<mark class="fix" data-orig="were from his elementary or high school" data-note="“To date back to” is a precise way of saying something comes from an earlier period of time.">dated back to his elementary and high school years</mark>.
I told him that
<mark class="fix" data-orig="I knew these bands also from that time" data-note="“Also” goes before the main verb, and “those” fits things that are distant in time.">I also knew those bands from that time</mark>.
Then it occurred to me that
<mark class="fix" data-orig="it would be perfect to interview him" data-note="Style: making “he” the subject keeps the focus on Nicholas — the interesting part of the sentence.">he would be perfect to interview</mark>,
since he was a local resident — and so the interview began…</p>
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<h3>Original version — as I first wrote it</h3>
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<p>I was sitting down on a bench in O Connor or Bank Street , when I noticed alternative-dressed
men (and some women) walking fast together towards the river. I knew they were going all to a
festival . At that moment, I wished it would have been free to access. So I saw a guy alone just
walking , then it occurred to me to ask him which kind of concert that was. He told me it was
Bluesfest, and that Limp Bizkit and Cypress Hill were playing that day. Then he told me the concert
was unfortunately not free, but that he got his ticket still in time only for that single day. We
began small talk and he explained he was there for work and that those bands were from his
elementary or high school. I told him that I knew these bands also from that time . Then it
occurred to me that it would be perfect to interview him , since he was a local resident, and so
began the interview…</p>
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<p class="t-note">The recording starts as Nicholas answers the first question: <em>“What do you enjoy most about being Canadian?”</em> Lightly edited for readability. JC = Jorge Cardiel · NS = Nicholas Snow.</p>
<div class="line" data-t="0" data-who="NS"><span class="t">0:00</span><span class="who">NS</span><p>So, the first thing I would say is: one of the things I enjoy the most about being Canadian is multiculturalism. When you’re in a big city like Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, you have different people that have different backgrounds, and everybody is just one big country of Canadians from everywhere.</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="20" data-who="NS"><span class="t">0:20</span><span class="who">NS</span><p>And the second thing I love about being Canadian is when I travel to other countries — Europe, all over the world — and I say I’m Canadian, they smile. No one hates Canadians. And I like that reputation, so I try to do my best to make sure that that reputation continues.</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="39" data-who="JC"><span class="t">0:39</span><span class="who">JC</span><p>Excellent, thank you. Would you rather live in another country — or have you lived in another country?</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="48" data-who="NS"><span class="t">0:48</span><span class="who">NS</span><p>I have not lived — I’ve visited fifty countries so far, but I have not lived in another country. I want to see fifty more. I love visiting other countries and learning about other people’s cultures, but Canada is always going to be home. When I finish whatever I’m doing, I want to come back to Canada.</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="64" data-who="JC"><span class="t">1:04</span><span class="who">JC</span><p>Have you moved within Canada?</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="68" data-who="NS"><span class="t">1:08</span><span class="who">NS</span><p>I’ve lived in four different provinces: Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba.</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="76" data-who="JC"><span class="t">1:16</span><span class="who">JC</span><p>Great, great. And you speak fluent French and English?</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="79" data-who="NS"><span class="t">1:19</span><span class="who">NS</span><p class="fr">« Je parle français, mais je parle français avec un accent anglais, parce que je suis anglophone. Je suis né à Montréal, mes parents sont anglophones, mais j’ai appris le français après quelques années. »<span class="tr">→ “I speak French, but with an English accent, because I’m an anglophone. I was born in Montreal, my parents are anglophones, but I learned French after a few years.”</span></p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="92" data-who="JC"><span class="t">1:32</span><span class="who">JC</span><p class="fr">« Très bien, très bien ! Moi, je parle un peu de français… »<span class="tr">→ “Very good, very good! Me, I speak a little French…”</span></p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="97" data-who="NS"><span class="t">1:37</span><span class="who">NS</span><p class="fr">« Oui — mais c’est très bien, ça va, ça va ! » <span class="stage">(laughter)</span><span class="tr">→ “Yes — but that’s very good, it’s fine, it’s fine!”</span></p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="103" data-who="JC"><span class="t">1:43</span><span class="who">JC</span><p>Merci. So — what’s your opinion about bilingualism?</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="111" data-who="NS"><span class="t">1:51</span><span class="who">NS</span><p>Bilingualism is an important skill. It makes you develop other skills — I can’t think of one negative thing about being bilingual. The more languages you speak, the better, because you’re able to communicate with more people.</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="129" data-who="NS"><span class="t">2:09</span><span class="who">NS</span><p>I think you’re smarter — I can’t prove that last one, but I’m pretty sure you’re probably smarter. It just makes you a more well-rounded person. I’m embarrassed that I only speak two languages. One day I want to learn Spanish.</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="145" data-who="JC"><span class="t">2:25</span><span class="who">JC</span><p>But already speaking two fluently is a really good accomplishment.</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="150" data-who="NS"><span class="t">2:30</span><span class="who">NS</span><p>It’s a start — it’s not a finish, though. I want to learn Spanish.</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="156" data-who="JC"><span class="t">2:36</span><span class="who">JC</span><p>Excellent, Nicholas. Let me just check if I have another question… Thank you for your time.</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="165" data-who="NS"><span class="t">2:45</span><span class="who">NS</span><p>Of course.</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="166" data-who="JC"><span class="t">2:46</span><span class="who">JC</span><p>Yes, there’s another one… you sort of already answered this one… let me choose this one: how would you describe a typical Canadian summer day?</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="182" data-who="NS"><span class="t">3:02</span><span class="who">NS</span><p>Well, Canada is so big, land-wise, that it depends on where you are. I’d say by the coast it’s a bit cooler in the summertime, and when you get to more like Montreal, Toronto, it can be warm like today — I think it was 29 degrees; yesterday it was 32. And there are heat waves all across the country. Mostly it’s nice — I enjoy the summer, I enjoy heat.</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="208" data-who="NS"><span class="t">3:28</span><span class="who">NS</span><p>But winter is really hard. As hot as it gets in the summer, we get that cold air in winter. So you become very resilient as a person, because you face every season.</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="221" data-who="NS"><span class="t">3:41</span><span class="who">NS</span><p>You know, I travel to the south and there’s no winter, right? I think when you have to face all the seasons, it makes you enjoy them more — because when one leaves, you’re really happy to see another one, and you’re always excited when it comes back. Summer is only four months here — maybe five if we’re lucky — and then you get excited when it comes back again.</p></div>
<div class="line" data-t="242" data-who="JC"><span class="t">4:02</span><span class="who">JC</span><p>Excellent. I think that will be perfect.</p></div>
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<div class="sec-head"><span class="sec-num">03</span><h2>Nicholas, by the numbers</h2></div>
<p class="sec-sub">Everything below comes straight from four minutes of conversation.</p>
<div class="stats">
<div class="stat"><b>50</b><span>countries visited<br>(and 50 more to go)</span></div>
<div class="stat"><b>4</b><span>provinces he has<br>called home</span></div>
<div class="stat"><b>2</b><span>languages spoken —<br>“a start, not a finish”</span></div>
<div class="stat"><b>29 °C</b><span>in Ottawa on<br>interview day</span></div>
<div class="stat"><b>≈4</b><span>months of summer<br>(“five if we’re lucky”)</span></div>
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<span class="lbl">His Canada, so far</span>
<span class="prov">🍁 Quebec <small>(born in Montreal)</small></span><span class="arrow">→</span>
<span class="prov">Ontario</span><span class="arrow">→</span>
<span class="prov">Saskatchewan</span><span class="arrow">→</span>
<span class="prov">Manitoba</span>
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<div class="sec-head"><span class="sec-num">04</span><h2>Field notes — a sociological reading</h2></div>
<p class="sec-sub">
Four minutes with one stranger can say a lot about a society. Six observations on what Nicholas said —
and on what made the conversation possible at all.
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<article class="note">
<span class="tag">National identity</span>
<h3>Multiculturalism comes first</h3>
<blockquote>“Everybody is just one big country of Canadians from everywhere.”</blockquote>
<p>Asked what he enjoys about being Canadian, Nicholas names <b>multiculturalism</b> before anything else — before hockey, nature or maple syrup. That is no accident: Canada was the first country in the world to adopt an official multiculturalism policy (1971), and Canadians often describe their society as a <b>“mosaic”</b> — cultures living side by side — in deliberate contrast to the American “melting pot”. For Nicholas, diversity is not a challenge to national identity; it <b>is</b> the national identity.</p>
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<article class="note">
<span class="tag">Nation branding</span>
<h3>Everyone is an ambassador</h3>
<blockquote>“I try to do my best to make sure that that reputation continues.”</blockquote>
<p>When he travels, people smile at Canadians — and Nicholas feels <b>personally responsible</b> for keeping it that way. The nation’s image abroad becomes something each citizen performs and protects, one polite interaction at a time. Sociologist Erving Goffman called this careful management of impressions the <b>“presentation of self”</b>; here it is scaled up from one person to a whole country.</p>
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<article class="note">
<span class="tag">Belonging & mobility</span>
<h3>A rooted cosmopolitan</h3>
<blockquote>“Canada is always going to be home.”</blockquote>
<p>Fifty countries visited, fifty more on the list — yet none of them could ever be home. His travel does not weaken his attachment; it <b>strengthens</b> it. Researchers call this pattern <b>rooted cosmopolitanism</b>: openness to the world combined with a firm sense of belonging. His life inside Canada tells the same story of movement — four provinces, and now Ottawa “for work”: a very Canadian biography of labour mobility.</p>
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<article class="note">
<span class="tag">Language & status</span>
<h3>Language as capital</h3>
<blockquote>“I’m embarrassed that I only speak two languages.”</blockquote>
<p>Nicholas talks about languages in the vocabulary of <b>investment</b>: a “skill” that develops other skills, makes you “smarter” and more “well-rounded”. Pierre Bourdieu called this <b>linguistic capital</b> — in an officially bilingual country, language is not just communication, it is status. His own story — an anglophone born in Montreal who learned French “after a few years”, and still hears his English accent in it — traces Canada’s most sensitive linguistic boundary from the inside.</p>
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<span class="tag">Climate & character</span>
<h3>Winter as moral education</h3>
<blockquote>“You become very resilient as a person, because you face every season.”</blockquote>
<p>For Nicholas, brutal winters are not merely weather — they build <b>character</b>. Turning shared hardship into shared virtue is a classic way communities construct identity: “we” are the people who survive this together. It also explains why weather is Canada’s favourite small-talk currency — it is the one experience every stranger in the country has in common.</p>
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<span class="tag">Ritual & nostalgia</span>
<h3>The festival made it possible</h3>
<blockquote>“Those bands were from his elementary and high school years.”</blockquote>
<p>The entire encounter depended on a festival: Bluesfest pulled thousands of strangers toward the river and <b>suspended the normal rules of urban anonymity</b> — suddenly it was acceptable to ask a stranger where everyone was going. And Nicholas paid to hear Limp Bizkit and Cypress Hill, the soundtrack of his school years: the music of our adolescence becomes a badge of our generation, worth buying a ticket for decades later.</p>
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<div class="sec-head"><span class="sec-num">05</span><h2>Glossary</h2></div>
<p class="sec-sub">Key words from the interview and the story — with pronunciation and the sentence where they appear.</p>
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<div class="g-card"><span class="w">multiculturalism</span><span class="pos">noun</span><span class="ipa">/ˌmʌl.tiˈkʌl.tʃər.əl.ɪ.zəm/</span><p class="def">The presence — and celebration — of several different cultures within one society.</p><span class="ex">One of the things I enjoy the most about being Canadian is multiculturalism.</span></div>
<div class="g-card"><span class="w">background</span><span class="pos">noun</span><span class="ipa">/ˈbæk.ɡraʊnd/</span><p class="def">A person’s family, cultural or social origin and experience.</p><span class="ex">Different people that have different backgrounds.</span></div>
<div class="g-card"><span class="w">reputation</span><span class="pos">noun</span><span class="ipa">/ˌrep.jʊˈteɪ.ʃən/</span><p class="def">The general opinion that people have about someone or something.</p><span class="ex">I like that reputation… I try to make sure that it continues.</span></div>
<div class="g-card"><span class="w">anglophone</span><span class="pos">noun / adj.</span><span class="ipa">/ˈæŋ.ɡlə.fəʊn/</span><p class="def">An English-speaking person — used especially in bilingual Canada, opposite of <em>francophone</em>.</p><span class="ex">Je suis anglophone… mes parents sont anglophones.</span></div>
<div class="g-card"><span class="w">bilingualism</span><span class="pos">noun</span><span class="ipa">/baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl.ɪ.zəm/</span><p class="def">The ability to speak and use two languages.</p><span class="ex">Bilingualism is an important skill.</span></div>
<div class="g-card"><span class="w">well-rounded</span><span class="pos">adjective</span><span class="ipa">/ˌwelˈraʊn.dɪd/</span><p class="def">Having a good balance of many different skills, interests and experiences.</p><span class="ex">It makes you a more well-rounded person.</span></div>
<div class="g-card"><span class="w">accomplishment</span><span class="pos">noun</span><span class="ipa">/əˈkʌm.plɪʃ.mənt/</span><p class="def">Something difficult that has been achieved through effort.</p><span class="ex">Speaking two languages fluently is a really good accomplishment.</span></div>
<div class="g-card"><span class="w">resilient</span><span class="pos">adjective</span><span class="ipa">/rɪˈzɪl.i.ənt/</span><p class="def">Able to recover quickly from difficult conditions; tough.</p><span class="ex">You become very resilient as a person, because you face every season.</span></div>
<div class="g-card"><span class="w">heat wave</span><span class="pos">noun</span><span class="ipa">/ˈhiːt ˌweɪv/</span><p class="def">A period of unusually hot weather.</p><span class="ex">And there are heat waves all across the country.</span></div>
<div class="g-card"><span class="w">land-wise</span><span class="pos">adverb, informal</span><span class="ipa">/ˈlænd.waɪz/</span><p class="def">In terms of land or territory. The suffix <em>-wise</em> means “as far as X is concerned” (money-wise, time-wise…).</p><span class="ex">Canada is so big, land-wise, that it depends on where you are.</span></div>
<div class="g-card"><span class="w">small talk</span><span class="pos">noun</span><span class="ipa">/ˈsmɔːl ˌtɔːk/</span><p class="def">Polite, light conversation about unimportant subjects, often between strangers.</p><span class="ex">We started making small talk.</span></div>
<div class="g-card"><span class="w">to date back to</span><span class="pos">phrasal verb</span><span class="ipa">/deɪt ˈbæk tuː/</span><p class="def">To have existed since a particular time in the past.</p><span class="ex">Those bands dated back to his school years.</span></div>
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<p class="sec-sub">Did you really listen? Four quick questions — tap an answer to find out.</p>
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<h3><span class="qn">Q1.</span> How many countries has Nicholas visited so far?</h3>
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<h3><span class="qn">Q3.</span> According to Nicholas, facing all four seasons makes you…</h3>
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<button class="opt" data-ok="0">tired</button>
<button class="opt" data-ok="1">resilient</button>
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<h3><span class="qn">Q4.</span> For Nicholas, speaking two languages is…</h3>
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<button class="opt" data-ok="1">“a start — not a finish”</button>
<button class="opt" data-ok="0">only useful for work</button>
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<h4>About this handout</h4>
<p>Prepared by <b>Jorge Cardiel</b> for the assessed task “Interview a Local Resident” —
Context Class, English B2.2, UNAM-Canada (Gatineau/Ottawa), July 2026.
Recorded on a phone near Bluesfest on July 12, 2026, with the interviewee’s kind permission.
Audio transcribed locally with open-source speech recognition (Whisper), then checked by hand.
Merci, Nicholas — bonne route vers l’espagnol ! 🍁</p>
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current.classList.add('active');
if(!player.paused){
var r = current.getBoundingClientRect();
if(r.top < 90 || r.bottom > window.innerHeight - 40){
current.scrollIntoView({behavior:'smooth', block:'center'});
}
}
}
});
lines.forEach(function(l){
l.addEventListener('click', function(){
player.currentTime = parseFloat(l.dataset.t);
player.play();
});
});
/* ---------- playback speed ---------- */
document.querySelectorAll('.rate').forEach(function(b){
b.addEventListener('click', function(){
document.querySelectorAll('.rate').forEach(function(x){ x.classList.remove('on'); });
b.classList.add('on');
player.playbackRate = parseFloat(b.dataset.rate);
});
});
/* ---------- quiz ---------- */
document.querySelectorAll('.q').forEach(function(q){
var fb = q.querySelector('.fb');
q.querySelectorAll('.opt').forEach(function(o){
o.addEventListener('click', function(){
var done = q.dataset.done === '1';
if(done) return;
if(o.dataset.ok === '1'){
o.classList.add('right');
fb.textContent = '✔ Correct!';
q.dataset.done = '1';
} else {
o.classList.add('wrong');
fb.textContent = '✘ Not quite — listen again and try another answer.';
}
});
});
});
})();
</script>
</body>
</html>