Australia 3

Listen to Australia 3, an 18-year-old man from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 18

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1981

PLACE OF BIRTH: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: N/A

OCCUPATION: N/A

EDUCATION: N/A

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS: N/A

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

His mother was born and raised in China.

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RECORDED BY: Paul Meier

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 10/12/1999

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born and have been raised in Melbourne, Australia, in Victoria. Um, it’s a city. It’s a pretty large city I, I gather, but not compared to like the huge, like, New Yorks, LA’s of the world, but it’s about three and a half billion [million]. Um, yeah, it’s a, I like living there, it’s a really nice city, I don’t, I’ve been to Sydney and I have to say I don’t prefer Sydney. It’s a very dirty, tacky sort of place, not that, Sydney people wouldn’t, wouldn’t like me saying that. Um, yeah, I’ve, I’ve, my family’s, my dad’s from Melbourne. He was born there and raised there all his life, never lived anywhere else. They, my family lived in England for a while for a year, but I wasn’t born then. Uh, my mom’s from Hong Kong. Uh, she was born and raised there and then came to Australia when she was seventeen. And, um, since then she met my dad and they got married and since then she’s lived in Australia her whole life. My dad teaches engineering. He’s an engineering lecturer. Um, back in Australia, my mom’s a nurse and my sister who’s twenty-two is a physical therapist now she just graduated last year from University and now she’s working in the country in the country town in a hospital there. Very first memory, um, was when I was really small I used, uh, in my cot, in my bedroom, I, I remember there was a bird outside the window. It was an Australian bird and he made this noise which used to like, scare me, scare the daylights out of me and I would cry, every, every morning at five AM I’d wake up and hear the bird and cry. My mom just got like, she just couldn’t, she just got really annoyed by it because it would happen for a whole year. That every morning at five a.m. I’d wake up because this bird would wake me up and it was like its, ah, for me when I was that see, I still think of it now and it sounds like some horror movie sort of bird. It was really freaky, yeah, and so when I use to hear that, and still when I hear it now it sort of freaks me out a bit. Just hearing this, yeah, this strange bird that makes a really weird sound, just sings this really evil-sounding song.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Hannah Ballou

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 29/11/2000

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY:

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COMMENTARY BY: Paul Meier

DATE OF COMMENTARY (DD/MM/YYYY): 10/11/2016

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