Brazil 11

Listen to Brazil 11, a 22-year-old man from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 22

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 07/07/1994

PLACE OF BIRTH: Curitiba, in state of Paraná, Brazil

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Caucasian/Brazilian

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: in final year of college

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

The subject has never lived anywhere else other than Curitiba, Brazil.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject consumes American entertainment. This probably influenced him to lean toward American pronunciations. Also, subject has met several Americans in college. However, he mostly speaks English with other Brazilians.

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RECORDED BY: Rogger Alves Neri de Souza

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 03/03/2017

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Well, I was born in 1994 in Curitiba, Brazil. Um, I’ve been studying English since 2005, but I think that my speaking abilities really got better, well, after 20-, uh, 2012, because before that I had never met anybody who spoke English — I mean, even a Brazilian. So I just knew some grammar stuff, some, some, I mean some words, of course, but I really couldn’t speak English. … Two thousand and twelve was when I started college. I study a course called Letras, which literally means “letters” in English, but I think that in the English-speaking world there is not a direct equivalent to that. But it’s basically a course, um, that aims to form teachers. So, for example, I study Letras Portuguese/English, so that means that when I graduate I will be able to, to give classes in English, to give English classes or Portuguese classes in the public high schools or private institutions. And this course is really — I really like this course because you have a bunch of different subjects. For example, we have to study literature, we have to study phonetics, um, we have to study linguistics and also methodologies. So it has a bunch of things, and not everybody has to work with teaching. For example, even though I will be able to be a teacher of Portuguese or English, I probably won’t work as a teacher because I would, I would prefer to work as a translator.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Rogger Alves Neri de Souza

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION: 03/03/2017

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