Egypt 6

Listen to Egypt 6, a 46-year-old woman from Giza, Egypt. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 46

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 07/03/1972

PLACE OF BIRTH: Giza, Egypt

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Egyptian

OCCUPATION: office administrator

EDUCATION: bachelor’s degree in English language

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

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject works for an American company stationed in Cairo, and her immediate boss is American. She is also familiar with French and German.

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RECORDED BY: Sarah Maria Nichols

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 14/02/2017

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

One of my dreams is, uh, I really hate admin stuff. I’m not, uh, I’m good at it. Or I consider myself good at it. But really that’s not my dream, or that’s not my passion. My passion is, um, to have something, uh, I really love. Um, I love, uh, fabrics. I love, uh, embroider stuff. Um,  I th – um, I thought, uh, once to, to start my own business and that, uh, I traveled to Turkey, and I tried to buy clothes and sell it. Uh, I was scared because, um, uh, I need money and I thought that I, uh, in that kind of business I might lose b- money, because, eh, marketing is not that easy for, uh, stuff like that. Um, so I started this, uh, thing. But then I had to quit that early because, um, uh, my partner, ah, wanted to do everything on her own and, uh, neglected my opinion totally. So, uh, uh, we didn’t go on – get on along together. And then, uh — but right now I’m, I’m in the middle of something. An-, uh, I really wanna do it. Em, which is playing with fabrics and doing stuff. Uh, an-, and, uh, I think I will start that business soon.

[Subject speaks Arabic]; Uh, Sharm El Sheikh hia madina siaheia mosraiya tadomum montogat siaheia w’ tishtaher bahad marek zirlus l’lameiya w’ tushtamer ala matahr dawli.

[English translation: Uh, Sharm El Sheikh is a touristic city, and it includes a lot of tourism and hotels, and it has one of the international diving centers all over the world, and it has an international airport.] [Click here for a PDF of the above text transcribed in the Arabic alphabet.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Sarah Maria Nichols

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 15/02/2017

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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

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