{"id":6275,"date":"2013-04-19T18:56:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T22:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6275"},"modified":"2013-04-19T19:15:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T23:15:55","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-australias-tok-pisin-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-australias-tok-pisin-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Australia&#8217;s Tok Pisin service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6281\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/800px-Tarvurvur.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6281\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6281 \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/800px-Tarvurvur-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/800px-Tarvurvur-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/800px-Tarvurvur-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/800px-Tarvurvur.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Tavurvur in Papua New Guinea (Source: Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Monday morning, I was up earlier than usual and caught Radio Australia&#8217;s <em>Tok Pisin<\/em> (Pacific Pidgin Language Service) on 9,475 kHz.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt many English-speaking SWLing Post readers will understand <em>Tok Pisin<\/em> if you&#8217;re hearing it for the first time, but as with other Pidgin languages throughout the world, <em>Tok Pisin<\/em> is a mixture of several languages: English,\u00a0German,\u00a0Malay,\u00a0Portuguese\u00a0and Austronesian languages. It has a comparatively simple structure and you might be surprised what you can understand if the topic shifts to something familiar. I&#8217;ve certainly enjoyed listening to it in the background as I work on other projects.<\/p>\n<p>I recorded a full 90 minutes of the <em>Tok Pisin<\/em> service;<a title=\"Download the MP3\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioAuPidgin9.475MHz15Apr130900Z\/RadioAuPidgin-9.475MHz-15Apr13-0900Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"> you can download it directly by clicking here<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/RadioAuPidgin9.475MHz15Apr130900Z\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning, I was up earlier than usual and caught Radio Australia&#8217;s Tok Pisin (Pacific Pidgin Language Service) on 9,475 kHz. I doubt many English-speaking SWLing Post readers will understand Tok Pisin if you&#8217;re hearing it for the first time, but as with other Pidgin languages throughout the world, Tok Pisin is a mixture of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,1557,746,1167],"tags":[1875,1878,1874,4106,1877],"class_list":["post-6275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-podcast","category-recordings","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-pacific-pidgin-language-service","tag-pidgin","tag-radio-australia-tok-pisin","tag-recordings","tag-tok-pisin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1Dd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10285,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/abc-radio-staff-memo-outlines-cuts-to-external-service\/","url_meta":{"origin":6275,"position":0},"title":"ABC Radio staff memo outlines cuts to external service","author":"Thomas","date":"July 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Jonathan Marks, who has posted a letter by Michael Mason (Acting Director of ABC Radio) to the staff of ABC. 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