Australia 8

Listen to Australia 8, a woman from Coburg, Victoria, Australia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: N/A

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

PLACE OF BIRTH: Coburg, Australia (near Melbourne)

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Caucasian (Turkish-Greek)

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EDUCATION: N/A

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

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

She grew up in a home where she spoke Greek, Turkish, and English.  However, there is little or no trace of her ancestry in her speech.

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RECORDED BY: Geraldine Cook

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 2000

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TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in Australia, and I was actually born in Coburg. I lived most of my life Coburg, and when I was in high school, about … year 10, my family moved to Pascoe Vale, which was probably about um … 5-10 minutes away from Coburg. Pascoe Vale, is a really nice — a really nice suburb, it’s full of wide straits and there are lots of trees, it’s a fairly quiet area, I think that — most of the … residents, uh, you know are middle-aged to a little bit older. … Yeah, it’s fairly quiet area. Something I remember that just comes to mind, was, when I was in primary school, we — during the summer holidays, we used to go to the local pool everyday, so we’d get together with cousins, relatives and friends and we’d … we’d walk down, which was almost like, you know, a 20 to 30 minute walk, and it was just fantastic … um, being able to do that during the summer holidays with friends and we’d walk through the Coburg lake … and, it was just a lovely walk. I remember I was obsessed with learning how to dive from the high board, and it took me months to be able to get the courage to do that, and I remember feeling…on one occasion I felt  I was just going to throw myself in, and, um, I actually took the dive, and it was a fantastic moment for me to be able to do that. [Interviewer: What kinds of kids hung out at the Coburg pool; was it the Coburg Pool?]  It was the Coburg Pool.  [Interviewer: What kinds of kids hung out at the Coburg Pool?]  I think there were like … a variety of um, different culture groups, there were Italians, Lebanese, Turkish … uh, Anglo-Saxan … Greeks … um, yeah there were lots of — it was a fairly multi-cultural area.  [Interviewer: Do you speak another language at home?]  Yes, I speak Greek … and I also speak Turkish.  [Interviewer: Ah, so where are your parents from originally?]  My parents are from Greece; they were born in the northern part of Greek — Greece, in a place called [unclear].  [Interviewer: Hence, they speak Greek and Turkish. Is that — has that happened?]  Yes, my grandmother also spoke Turkish. She was not a fluent Greek speaker … but um, because she was with us for most of her life um, we had to learn to speak the Turkish language, so I was speaking English, Greek, and Turkish at home.  [Interviewer: So you still speak three languages?]  Yeah, I still speak three languages — we don’t use Turkish as much anymore ’cause my grandmother’s passed away.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Faith Harvey

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 14/03/2008

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