Czech Republic 6

Listen to Czech Republic 6, a 34-year-old woman from Železný Brod, Czech Republic, or Czechia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 34

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 16/12/1980

PLACE OF BIRTH: Železný Brod, Czech Republic

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Czech

OCCUPATION: ethnomusicologist

EDUCATION: university degree

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

At the time of this interview, subject had been living in the United States (Southern California) for three years.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Wyn Moreno (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 19/11/2015

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I come from Czech Republic. Um, I come from, uh, a place, uh, in the northern part of Czech Republic called Czechneczon Paradise, and it’s really pretty, with a lot a nice rivers, and rocks, and, uh, forests, and, um, yeah, what else I could say? I have been learning English from since, uh, since I was 13. So, I was going to this like, uh, pre-high school for some like clever kids. So we were taught kind of like, um, the earlier than other, other of my colleagues or of my, the friends I had. So, I was learning English from that time; we had really nice teacher. He would be really interactive. He made it like, really like fun thing for us. But since that time, I think I never had a like a proper cool teacher of English anymore. So it was mostly just like watching movies and talking and traveling and reading. And then trying to pass the TOEFL exam in English, which was pretty hard for me. But eventually I succeeded, and then I’m here.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Wyn Moreno (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 19/11/2015

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