Azerbaijan 1

Listen to Azerbaijan 1, a 29-year-old woman from Ganja and Baku, Azerbaijan. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 29

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 01/03/1990

PLACE OF BIRTH: Ganja, Azerbaijan

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Turk

OCCUPATION: teacher

EDUCATION: master’s degree

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

The subject has never lived outside Azerbaijan for more than six months. She’s lived in both Ganja and Baku.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

She is strongly influenced by the way Americans speak, she is researching dialects of American English and also teaching English. It is apparent that the speaker is tending to speak with an American accent.

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RECORDED BY: Gunay Mammadova (subject)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 05/05/2019

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Well, uh, I was born in Ganja, uh, in 1990. It’s the second biggest city of Azerbaijan. Um, since my father was a military man, uh, we were obliged to move one from city to another, um, hmmm, and our final residence turned to be Baku, uh, capital city of Azerbijan. Uh, consequently, I took my bachelor and master degree in Baku. I majored in English philology. Uh, I mastered two languages: English and Russian. The first is, of course, my major. Uh, when it comes to the last one, everybody knows Russian here, since we were once a part of the Soviet Union. Well, I admit I have a little bit strong accent in my Russian speech, well, in comparison with English. Um, uh, currently, I am working in Baku at the Azerbaijan University of Languages as a teacher of English. At the same time, I am a Ph.d student of the same university. Uh, I am doing researches on regional and social dialects of, of American English.

Finally, I want to say something in my mother tongue [Azerbaijani]: Mən sizin təşkilatla əməkdaşlıq etməyimə çox şadam, which translates into English as: I am very glad to cooperate with your organization.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Gunay Mammadova (subject)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION: 05/05/2019

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