Finland 3

Listen to Finland 3, a 51-year-old woman from Lahti and Helsinki, Finland. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 51

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1953

PLACE OF BIRTH: Lahti, Finland

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Finnish (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: business executive

EDUCATION: master’s degree

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject spent time in Helsinki, Finland.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

English is the official language in her office in Helsinki.

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RECORDED BY: Paul Meier

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 27/01/2004

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was … born extensive years ago, in Lahti in, in Finland, and then, when I was something like, uh, 19 or 20, I moved to Helsinki, which is the capital of Finland, and I started to work there in a paper company, and then after a while I noticed I still want to study more, and then I went to school of economics in Helsinki and head for, the master’s thesis of, of economics within four or five years, and then, after that, I went back to the same, same company, and actually I worked in that company … for all the years … so far, but changing very many times my job, so being, being in business controlling side, being in marketing side, being in, in administrative side and be- … most of the time in development work, and that seems to be the place where I, where I will be, so I am like a child, I just want to learn more and more. And then to my, maybe what I can tell concerning the company it’s, it’s, um, one of the world’s biggest paper companies and, uh, we have 36,000 people there, so there are challenges enough for me if that is always possible to change, change the job of course. I, I must say that first I, I did like languages but some, somehow I, I did like German language a lot, and, and in the very beginning I, I didn’t fancy so much English, and I think it was the reason of the teacher, because then when the teacher changed, somehow the one was so exciting and, and, uh, then, then I really wanted to learn more and, and then I, I learned a lot of, lot of it in, in high school, and then actually English is our official language in our office, it has been for maybe 5, more than 5 years, so we are using En-, English everyday. I make presentation even in English I don’t know, but I do it. Uh, maybe when you talk about things in which you, which you know, you can do it. So we are … written, using written and, and oral English every day at work. Because then, then the company is very international; we have offices in more than 30 countries.
[Speaking Finnish, subject reads Comma Gets a Cure.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Faith Harvey

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 15/03/2008

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