Iran 13

Listen to Iran 13, a 47-year-old woman from Tehran, Iran, who has also lived in the United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 47

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 21/03/1965

PLACE OF BIRTH: Tehran, Iran

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Persian

OCCUPATION: homemaker

EDUCATION: high school and some college education

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

She was born and raised in Tehran, Iran, where she lived for twenty-one years. She then moved to Southern California, more specifically to Los Angeles, and has been living there ever since. She learned English back in Tehran during grade/high school.

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RECORDED BY: Joey Vahedi (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/03/2012

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in Tehran, Iran. Tehran is the capital of Iran and, umm, I was born, umm, March twenty-first. It was a Persian New Year, so that’s always a good memory that my mom will tell me about. Eh, so, umm, I was a gift to my parents. I shall say that. Umm, so, umm, I was born and raised, ehm, in one house until, you know, the time that I left Iran that I was like 21, so all this years I was in one house with my siblings and my mom and my dad. So, umm, I, nnn, there was never a big change in my, you know, eh, surrounding. I, I was going to one school, uhh, with the same, like, driver that came and picked us up in the morning and took us to school — the bus driver, — and then, umm, all the way to high school. Uh, I was the first born, and then my sister, umm, five years younger than me, and my, uh, two brother that are thirteen years younger and, umm, fifteen years younger than me. So, uh, me and my sister for a while … it was just two of us, and we fighted and did all those, you know, things that siblings and the sisters do, and then our brother came in, uh, to our life, and it was, like, it was so much fun.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Joey Vahedi (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/03/2012

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