Belarus 1

Listen to Belarus 1, a 36-year-old woman from Minsk, Belarus. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

Both as a courtesy and to comply with copyright law, please remember to credit IDEA for direct or indirect use of samples.  IDEA is a free resource;  please consider supporting us.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 36

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1968

PLACE OF BIRTH: Minsk, Belarus

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

OCCUPATION: N/A

EDUCATION: N/A

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

The subject has been in Canada since her 20s, around 10 years.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

The text used in our recordings of scripted speech can be found by clicking here.

RECORDED BY: Eric Armstrong

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 2004

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’m from Belarus. I was born in the capital of Belarus, Minsk. And it’s a big city; it’s almost three million people: almost as big as Toronto but it’s a very compact city. And um * people in Belarus, they tend to have, um, small country houses. And my parents, my pa.. father actually when I was 14, he bought the house and in the countryside. Humm, it’s beautiful, mm, very beautiful place, small village and it was o.. house was very old and we repaired it a lot. And s.. mm, next to the house was the big forest. Actually in Belarus a lot of forest, it’s forest land. E..Everywhere, like, forest. And I remember like we, mm, usually, see in in Belarus, mm, not like in Canada, we didn’t have so much fruits and vegetables, and in summertime we actually needed to go to the forest and pick up some wild raspberries, some str..small strawberries, and it was nice time. And I remember very early morning in the forest, it’s almost like, um, almost dark and we were [unclear] struggle through the forest to find this open place where, mm, trees were cut down three years ago or four years ago, and * oh, mm, wild ra..raspberries start..started to grow. And it’s the best raspberries because they have enough sun and it’s very sweet and, mm, flavor … mm. How to say? Have a lot of fla.. flavo.., yes, flavor. And then we like we, we picked we picked them up might might be for three, four hours and in big mountains, and then we brought it back. We bring this whole st..strawberries, strawberry, raspberry stuff at home, and Mother made jam. It’s a just nice. Wild bees were like flied around. Just nice time.

[* = vocalic pause]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Kevin Flynn

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 31/08/2007

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

COMMENTARY BY: N/A

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

The archive provides:

• Recordings of accent/dialect speakers from the region you select.
• Text of the speakers’ biographical details.
• Scholarly commentary and analysis in some cases.
• In most cases, an orthographic transcription of the speakers’ unscripted speech.  In a small number of cases, you will also find a narrow phonetic transcription of the sample (see Phonetic Transcriptions for a complete list).  The recordings average four minutes in length and feature both the reading of one of two standard passages, and some unscripted speech. The two passages are Comma Gets a Cure (currently our standard passage) and The Rainbow Passage (used in our earliest recordings).

 

For instructional materials or coaching in the accents and dialects represented here, please go to Other Dialect Services.