Ecuador 2

Listen to Ecuador 2, a 35-year-old woman from Guayaquil, Ecuador. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject. 

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 35

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 23/02/1989

PLACE OF BIRTH: Guayaquil, Ecuador

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Latin American

OCCUPATION: business owner

EDUCATION: bachelor’s degree

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

The subject has lived in Ecuador her entire life except for one year in Goteborg, Sweden, and almost one year in Toronto, Canada.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

When she lived in Sweden, she spoke English almost exclusively. At the time of this recording, she had been studying in Toronto, Canada, for almost a year.

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RECORDED BY: Mark Dallas

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/11/2024

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I participated in, um, a scholarship in China, so I was a little bit awkward about express my opinion in a essay. One of my friends helped me so for the fix about the orthography and everything, and after that, I present, and I received an e-mail about that: Hey, you got a scholarship. You need to prepare your passport and everything about the visa, because you need to travel to China. Everything is prepaid, and you have to study for around 34 days in different c- in different cities in China. So around four cities. And so the scholarship is the only studies — these part studies trips like tourists. And shops. And the government in China, er, they pay me like no souvenirs. It’s not compensation. It’s like, um, but it was like, er, money for spending souvenirs or something.

And it was a little bit funny because the instruction in the, in the e-mail and everything indicated that China weather is so cool. It’s like, er, 25 degrees in December, and everybody is supposed to: “Oh, yes. 25 is good,” And I, I just only one person that checking Google that “What is the temperature in China in December?” And it was different because the Google showed me that the temperature is around minus 14 degrees, not 25. No, it’s not warm — it is so cold. Everybody was shopping about the winter hat, winter pants, everything. Just only the one person that was prepared about the weather in China. But yeah, it was so cool. It was a great experience because I was engaged before the my trip in China, and after the trip, I canceled my wedding. Everything. Yes.

[Subject speaks Spanish]: El cacao orgánico Arriba Fino de Aroma cuenta con uno de los mayores valores en el mercado. Gran parte de ello se da gracias a que es resultado de la agricultura familiar campesina.

[English translation: Aroma’s organic cocoa Arriba Fino is among the highest-valued on the market. Much of this is due to the fact that it results from family farming.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Mark Dallas

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/11/2024

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