Iran 9

Listen to Iran 9, a 49-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: 49

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1953

PLACE OF BIRTH: Tehran, Iran

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Iranian (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: N/A

EDUCATION: N/A

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

The subject moved to the United States in the 1970s.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Amber McIntosh

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 10/12/2002

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1953, and I raise in Tehran. Uh, after graduating from high school, I got married with an Iranian guy. And we came to United State. When I was growing up, uh it was kind of, you know, fun for us, because uh we had a lot of, uh, cousins and relatives and friends. And every afternoon, our house, it was full of, you know, guests. And, uh, we knew that every day someone is coming to visit us. There’s a very famous, um, poem. That it said [QUOTES A BRIEF FARSI TEXT], means if you’re, uh, smart, and then you can do anything. So it’s, uh, very famous; everybody in Iran, they know this.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Amber McIntosh

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