France 9

Listen to France 9, a 25-year-old man from Évreux (Normandy) and Paris, France. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 25

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1980

PLACE OF BIRTH: Évreux, Normandy, France

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: French (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: Ph.D. student

EDUCATION: university

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

Before moving to the United States, his longest stay outside France was a one-month visit to London, England.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

His father and sister are English teachers. He also learned British English in school. (The subject does not speak with the uvular fricative “r” but makes a clear effort to pronounce the alveolar approximate.)

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RECORDED BY: Rebekah Maggor

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 08/2005

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in Évreux in France in Normandy, ah, which is a very beautiful region near Paris. And, ah, it’s where I grew up, actually. And then I studied in Paris and then in Vion, which is 500 kilometers away from Paris. Um, my father and my sister are English teachers, so … and I have family in America, so that’s why I have been exposed to English. That’s, um, ah … I have also studied English at school. Ah, I went to England for … and I stayed there for one month, ah, 6, 7 years ago. And, um, now, ah, I study history, um, at, ah, at Paris at the Sorbonne. And I, I have actually studied, ah, the French Revolution and, ah, the reception of the French Revolution in Europe and in America. So that’s why I’m in America now. I want to study French Revolution to, um, continue my research and, um, I, I’m going to teach French to undergraduate students. So, um … and I want to, to travel in America. I want to visit and I want to, to go to libraries, ah, to read most, ah, books — the most books that I can. Um, my brother, my brother has problem with his, ah, ears because, um, he used to, to listen to, ah, hard rock and heavy metal music and, ah, used to go to concerts and, ah, was a, a member of a band. Ah, he, he sang and, ah, that he didn’t know that it could hurt him. And, ah, after … when he was, ah, something like 20, 21, ah, he had a … all the high sounds hurt him. Noises hurt him and, ah, there is always a, a kind of ring, a bit, in his ears. So it’s, it’s a bit, it’s a big injury. It’s a big problem for him. Because he can not go to weddings parties. He cannot go to, ah, places … cannot stay in places where, ah, there’s, there are a lot of people, ah, where it, when it’s too crowded.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Mitchell Kelly

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 15/01/2008

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