Honduras 2

Listen to Honduras 2, a 31-year-old man from Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazan, Honduras. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 31

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 08/05/1991

PLACE OF BIRTH: Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazan, Honduras

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Latino/White

OCCUPATION: freelance writer

EDUCATION: high school graduate, university drop-out

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS: none

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject’s mother went to high school in the United States, and, as he discusses in his unscripted speech, the subject was influenced by American movies and conversational English that was spoken in the home.

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RECORDED BY: subject

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 23/07/2022

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

So, uh, I was born in Tegucigalpa, the city, in the department of Francisco Morazan, Honduras. And, uh, ah, I’ve never really spent that much time outside of the country. I do have some, uh, family in the, uh, in New Orleans, uh, that I’ve gone to visit a few times, but never for an extended amount of time; uh, like, my mother, uh, uh, was also born here in Honduras, and, uh, uh, but she, but she did her high school in the United States, and she sorta brought, uh, uh, English back to us. So when we were young, my mother would always speak to us in English, and we would speak English to each other, and, uh, we would watch, uh, uh, all the American movies in, uh, the original English language. So we got to practice a lot at home.

Um, uh, English is like very popular as a, uh, foreign language to learn in this country. So even though my school was not technically bilingual, we still had, uh, some choice of, uh, uh, of like English as a class, although it wasn’t of a, ve-, of a very advanced level, uh, since most of my classmates had a really thick accents. Uh, but because I was, uh, a bit better with English, then they would come, uh, to me for help, fhh, whenever it was time for English class.

Um, when our family was — when I was younger, uh, I just like, a year or two old, uh, my family, uh, used to live in the town of, uh, Santa Lucia, which is, uh, ‘bout an hour’s drive away from, ah, Tegucigalpa. Uh, I don’t really remember much about the time; I was very young; uh, but I did use to live, uh — I do remember living in my grandmother’s home, my paternal grandmother, um, before we moved into our own home, eh, in the house I’ve lived, eh, ever since.

TRANSCRIBED BY: subject

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 23/07/2022

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