Colombia 12

Listen to Colombia 12, a 23-year-old woman from Bogota, Colombia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 23

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 22/01/2001

PLACE OF BIRTH: Bogota, Colombia

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Hispanic/Colombian

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: bachelor’s degree

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

Washington D.C., United States, for two years

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Mark Dallas

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 27/05/2024

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 used to have nightmares, like, every single night when I was a kid. The scariest one that I remember when I grow older — because, in all my dreams, my parents die for different circumstances, and they were very terrifying, but the latest one was with androids. [Subject laughs.] We were, like, you know, in Orlando, in a park. Everything was white, and they were asking people to line up for a new attraction, and when you enter to the attraction, they see you. They are fixed, like, you see with the seatbelts and everything, and they feed you something — some androids. And that drink just makes, like, your pain go out that you start vomiting. And in all those dreams I’m always outside and I notice everything, and I was begging my parents, like, “Hey! Don’t go inside!”

But they were like, “We’ve already paid for this!”

So I was like, “How can I solve this?” I was running everywhere, trying to destroy the androids without being catch. I remember that. [Subject laughs.]

I know that I’m always running to try to solve the issue, and I always get to the final battle, but sometimes I wake up right before, er, like, a defeat happens, or I just forget the last part. That’s so sad, but, yes, it happens very often to me.

[The subject speaks Spanish]: En Colombia, tengo dos perros. Se llaman Laila y Lucky. Ya tienen como diez y quince años quizás.

[English translation: In Colombia, I have two dogs. They are called Laila and Lucky. They are about ten and fifteen years old.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Mark Dallas

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 03/06/2024

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