Chile 4

Listen to Chile 4, a 57-year-old man from Santiago, Chile. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 57

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 16/08/1955

PLACE OF BIRTH: Santiago, Chile

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Hispanic

OCCUPATION: research assistant

EDUCATION: doctorate

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

The subject moved to the United States about 30 years before this recording was made. He first moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and then to Northville, Michigan.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject learned English at high school in Chile.  He speaks mostly Spanish, although he knows a little bit of French.

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

RECORDED BY: Annette Masson

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 21/06/2012

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

The story is about a friend from, eh, Chile … I, eh. I just … have just arrive from Chile at that time, 1983-84, and, eh, apparently, em, he have had a accident, ya, and, eh, and there was a lot of political, eh, eh, discussion and trouble at that time in Chile. Y’know, was military government, and he was a really good friend of mine and, eh, very different from me. Ya, he was usually a chemist, more, eh, withdrawn; and he was, em, em, you know, the profession basically but a good politician, and, em, he was a good organizer of, eh, of, eh meetings,  something like that like in Pinochet. And at time he got, eh, sick, and it was really sad that, em, em, so it was an accident actually, and he was involved in an accident and my dad was treating him because he was a doctors in Chile. And, eh, it was really funny … my dad, whenever he deal with medical issues, he was very reserve, but that … but therefore he was … but in that particular instance he told me a lot about my friend, how he was doing and that there were some hope that he may recover … this was a car accident and, em, he was really … we were crossing our finger, and the last time, and one of those night when I talk to my dad, he said that there was some hope that he may recover. Ya, but next day, em, my dad, eh, call me and said that he had died, and it was, em, really short and brief, and my dad didn’t wanna say much about, and it was, eh, really interesting how, eh, we mix the medical issue with father and son talking, and, eh, eh, eh, two worlds apart and everything was mixed up in, in just a few, few  seconds it was a weird experience just to, to see my friend gone and my dad saying it in a very short straight way. And, eh, then I, I was in Cleveland, and, eh, I was in this country and I have to keep going like nothing has happen; it was interesting, em, experience, you know, it was weird, really strange; and I feel really sorry that you know … how we grow older and lose friends and, eh, and, eh, discover a new life.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Annette Masson

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 21/06/2012

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