Fujian 2

Listen to Fujian 2, a 19-year-old man from Sha Xian, Fujian Province, China. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 19

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 27/01/1991

PLACE OF BIRTH: Sha Xian, Fujian Province

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Chinese (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: At the time of recording, subject was a college student in Swansea, Wales.

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

Subject came to live in Wales at the age of 16 with his parent(s).

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

Subject knew no English when he moved to Swansea, Wales, at the age of 16. Self-taught, he spent five hours a day listening to BBC news broadcasts and another three hours a day reading English newspapers. His aim is to be able to speak with a perfect Received Pronunciation.

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RECORDED BY: Wang Zhi Heng

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 24/08/2010

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in a small city in Fujian in China, and then I moved to Swansea three years ago when I was 16. It was very hard at first when I came to live here because at that time I didn’t speak English at all, so I spend five hours a day listen to the BBC news and another three hours to reading the newspaper. Of course I needed a dictionary. Anyway, that was very difficult, and if you‘re listening to this recording you may notice that in the recording I’ve been trying to do RP accent as Received Pronunciation. Funny thing is that I have been to many places in England, and I never met anyone who speaks with this kind of accent. And that made it difficult for me to learn this accent, so I don’t know whether I am succeeded in pick up this accent, and that is the reason I submit my voice recording to the site.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Wang Zhi Heng

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 24/08/2010

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

COMMENTARY BY: N/A

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

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