Hungary 5

Listen to Hungary 5, a 53-year-old woman from Budapest and eastern Hungary. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 53

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 14/03/1960

PLACE OF BIRTH: Budapest, Hungary

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: white Hungarian

OCCUPATION: English teacher

EDUCATION: Subject has a degree in English literature and German, and was earning her PhD at the time of this recording.

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

The speaker has lived in Germany, and was residing in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, when recorded.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The speaker’s first language is Hungarian. Her second is German, followed by English.

The text used in our recordings of scripted speech can be found by clicking here.

RECORDED BY: Lily Lancaster (under supervision of Paul Meier)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 22/10/2013

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in Budapest, but I was raised in the east of Hungary. Uh, and then I went back to Budapest after high school and did some study and work, and later on I had the chance to realize my big dream and take a degree in English and German in Budapest at the Budapest University. And then I taught English literature different places in Hungary. Uh, but a permanent job was a teacher of 20th Century Modernist English Literature the University of the Reform Church in Budapest, and then I applied for a PhD Kansas and started my studies here and started teaching. Does that work?

TRANSCRIBED BY: Lily Lancaster (under supervision of Paul Meier)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION: 27/10/2013

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