Germany 3

Listen to Germany 3, a 28-year-old woman from Lüneburg and Kiel, Germany. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 28

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

PLACE OF BIRTH: Lüneburg, Germany

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: German (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: graduate student

EDUCATION: university

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

She lived in Kiel, Germany for six years, and has traveled in Italy, France, Greece, England, and the United States. (See transcription for specific cities.)

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

Her first foreign language was Latin. She learned English from native Germans, so her accent isn’t affected by American or British dialects.

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RECORDED BY: Chloe Ritter

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 2000

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

OK, um, I was raised in Lüneburg; it’s next to Hamburg, and, um, then I went to Kiel; I studied at Kiel for six years – the last six years – before I came to Kansas. And, um, yeah, I traveled, um, throughout my life. I was in Italy, and France; in, um, Greece with my parents, almost … And I went – once I went to England, um, to – what is it, um, yeah, next to York, so, Humberside there. And I was – actually I was two times in – in America. [In] 1991, I was in Baltimore and Washington D.C., and I visit a friend. And ’86, it was my first year, I went to New York to visit also a friend of mine. I was so little, it was a different impression I had, really. But, um, yeah this was actually my staying abroad, so to speak. It was in the seventh class, so to speak, I mean it’s different from America, for sure. And, um, my first foreign language was Latin, so it was my first one. And then I took … English. And it was, actually I had, um, yeah, I had always German teachers. So they – no – native Germans, not native speakers. Um, yeah, as well as at university, so it was the same. I think seven or eight years in a row I was in Greece. So because my father was a Latin and Greek teacher. And, um, I really enjoyed that. So we had a little, really, fish – fisher – fisher village I would say, you know, and it’s really, it was the island Kos [spelling?]. So it was pretty. It was 1770s [sic] and, um, no – 80s more, and I really enjoyed that as well as, um, to go with my parents to, um, yeah – is it, um, Saint Mont Michel [sic], so, in France. OK, I, actually I take French here, so, I also liked it. I had it ten, um, ten years ago at school for two years, so … And I can refresh it here. It’s great. So I love it. When I came here I got to know at the airport a German – um, a German – an American, um, woman here. She works for the Alumni association center. And she said, “Oh, well, please bring me something, you know, when you come back from Germany.” And I bought a book. And she was totally impressed with the, the houses. And what is so typical of Germany, of Luenborg; Luenborg is an old – I don’t know the word – salt, salt town, you know? So it was very rich in the Middle Ages. And they have really this brick stone houses with the facades. … In German, it’s gieble [spelling?]. OK, and it’s really really famous, and it’s, it’s beautiful, actually.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Chloe Ritter

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 2000

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