
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck...
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- 1976
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How did you learn to speak so fast?
"I used to go to a lot of auctions
with my dad.
In our area,
there was this brilliant auctioneer.
I was fascinated
by his ability to hold the attention
of 400 or 500 people.
I wanted to do that someday too.
I began by practicing with numbers."
"Then you move on to tongue twisters,
for example,
in German:
A big black bug bit a big brown bear."
"Or:
How much woodwould a woodchuck chuck.
Then you start with numbers.
and establishing a rhythm."
"It takes a lot of practice
and you really have to love to talk."
Have you got another example?
Can you try saying it in slow motion?
OBSERVATIONS ON A NEW LANGUAGE
WORLD LIVESTOCK:
AUCTIONEERS CHAMPIONSHIP
Can you decode
what you just said for us?
"Well, I'm selling.
In slow motion, I'm saying,
'I bid $30.
Would you give me $30.50?
Would you give me $30.75?'
And so on."
"More so than that,
it's the personal feeling I get."
I've had since I was six years old.
That one day I'd become
World Champion Livestock Auctioneer."
"I can hardly believe
that I've done it."
"Well, I started practicing
when I was a student
at the National Auction Institute.
I also took lessons
with an opera teacher
to learn breathing techniques.
He taught me to breathe properly,
to develop my volume and stamina.
I used to drive down the motorway
and try to sell
to every telegraph pole that went by.
I'd pretend
they were bidders at an auction."
"Then at every junction
"This broke the monotony of traveling
and gave me the chance to practice."
"I have a few friends in this trade.
They are real, true friends.
They tell me when I make mistakes."
How did you turn professional?
to make perfect."
"When I started out
as an auctioneer in 1965,
I was just a kid from the country.
Uncle Sam got me.
After that I started auctioneering."
"And just like Ralph here,
I used to hold auctions with myself."
"You can never get too much practice."
"But where I really started from...
You probably won't believe this.
I was the only one in our family
who would milk the cows."
"I'd sit down on a bucket
and every time I pulled on the udder,
I'd take a bid."
"And then I'd be through milking."
The world championships take place
in the village
of New Holland, Pennsylvania,
one of the centers
We thought it important
to show some of the surrounding area
because it is home
to a community of Amish people.
Here they till the soil
and raise the cattle the biblical way.
The Amish are a sect
who originally come from Switzerland.
However, they mainly consist
of a group of German immigrants
who arrived from the Palatinate
around 200 years ago.
These days, they still speak
an old Palatinate dialect.
Their most remarkable trait
is their puritanical attitude
towards developments in our society.
of capitalism and competition.
So they are the very antithesis
of the world championships
that are being held
The Amish also reject progress.
They dress the same
as they did 200 years ago
and still follow
many of the same customs.
The orthodox Amish
even reject electricity and cars.
Today, they still drive
horse-drawn carriages.
It may appear strange at first,
but there's a lot to be said
for their way of life.
They have refused
to participate in war.
They don't suffer
from the pollution problems
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