Israel 2

Listen to Israel 2, a 26-year-old woman from Israel, who has also lived in Australia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 26

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1976

PLACE OF BIRTH: Israel

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Israeli (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: N/A

EDUCATION: postgraduate study

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

At the time of the interview, the subject had lived in Australia for five years.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject lived and did postgraduate study in Australia. She has completed postgraduate study in creative arts (Melbourne University) and animatuering (Victorian College of the Arts ).

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RECORDED BY: Geraldine Cook

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 16/12/2002

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I remember we were in the Gaza Strip, and it was nighttime, and we wore this nighttime vision thing, and it’s called [unintelligible], like that’s their kind of nickname for it.  And you can see like miles away when you put it on.  And I put it on and I could see the G.. the Gaza, like the actual city, like [unintelligible] and everything.  And then someone like went past my eyes really quickly, and it looked like they’re [unintelligible], but it could be like, ten, you know, meters away, and I just, uh, screamed off the top of my lungs.  It was really scary ’cause I thought someone had just come out this building in Gaza and was about to kill me; it was, you know, like, it was just so close and so sudden.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Elizabeth Terrel

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 12/07/2008

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY:

Her accent seems to have a very distinctive nasal quality, which could have been assimilated by her time spent in Australia or may be a characteristic of her native language, Hebrew.

COMMENTARY BY: Geraldine Cook

DATE OF COMMENTARY (DD/MM/YYYY): 16/12/2002

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