Curaçao 1

Listen to Curaçao 1, a 27-year-old woman from Curaçao. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 27

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 09/08/1992

PLACE OF BIRTH: Curaçao

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Black-Caribbean

OCCUPATION: customer-service representative

EDUCATION: college

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

The subject lived in Rotterdam, Netherlands, for seven years before moving to the United Kingdom less than six months before this recording.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject speaks four languages: her first language, Papiamentu, and also, Spanish, Dutch, and English.

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

RECORDED BY: Tshari King

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 29/09/2019

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

OK, Curaçao is a tiny island, in the Caribbean, when it has like, 170,000 people, and it’s very beautiful, and it knows for the beaches and also know Curaçao because we have a bridge that is on the water and you can cross from Otrobanda to Punda. We have, like, Seu; it has to do with our culture, and we celebrate it in the month — it depends which month; we can celebrate it in April or in May, and it is on the Sunday, and it has to do with the harvest. We also celebrate in February: carnival. It takes one month, and, yes, you — we have the child parade, we have the adult parade, and we have the teen parade, uh, take place like, uh, after each other. And then we have — we call it Kima Momo; then everything is going to put in the fire, so it’s a new beginning, and it take place on the Ash Wednesday.

[Subject speaks in Papiamentu]: I mi a biba 20 aña na Kòrsou. I awoki aktualmente mi ta bibando Inglatera. I den un futuro, mi tin pensa di sigui wak unda mas den Europa lomi ke biba. Mi gusta aki nan i mi ta felis aki nan.

[English translation: I lived in Curaçao for 20 years. And now actually I am living England. And in the future, I think I will take a look where else in Europe I want to live. I love here, and I am happy here.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Tshari King

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 03/04/2020

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