Brazil 2

Listen to Brazil 2, a 21-year-old man from Brasilia, Brazil. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 21

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1980

PLACE OF BIRTH: Brasilia, Brazil

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Brazilian (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: college student

EDUCATION: some college study

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

At the time of the interview, the subject had been living in Hutchinson, Kansas, in the United States for two years.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

At the time of the interview, the subject had been a resident of the United States for two years and was a student at a community college.  Subject spoke no English when he arrived in the United States.

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

RECORDED BY: Ginger Bartkoski

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 30/03/2001

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 in Brasilia, Brazil.  (Um) I am 21 years old.  I love soccer.  My girlfriends call me a monkey.  I am a college student in Hutchinson, Kansas.  I made a bunch of friends in America.  I’m really enjoying my staying here.  First time I came to America, I was an exchange student, an’ (uh) I didn’ know any word in English at all.  I didn’ know anything, an’ I was hilarious ’cause I would look at people, and they’d keep talking, look like cartoons.  ’Cause I couldn’– I– I– you jus’ can get–. Like in my language you do a lotta gesture, and (uh) here you don’t do as many, so… It jus’ sounds like… a cartoon thing that you can’t understand.  So, I started learning — I think for two months after I was here, with no contact with Portuguese, I started to, you know, put things in my head, an’ put things together, then….  [recites in Portuguese].

TRANSCRIBED BY: Jacqueline Baker

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 01/09/2008

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

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