Israel 3

Listen to Israel 3, a 28-year-old woman from Rishom, Israel. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 28

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1974

PLACE OF BIRTH: Jerusalem, Israel

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Israeli (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: N/A

EDUCATION: N/A

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

The subject lived in Italy for a year and a half and was living in Los Angeles, California, in the United States, at the time of the interview.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject’s mother is from Morocco, and her father is from Poland. The subject speaks Hebrew, Italian, French, and English. Although she was born in Jerusalem, she grew up just outside Tel Aviv, in Rishom.

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RECORDED BY: 02/12/2002

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

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

In Israel, I was, uh, I grew up near Tel Aviv.  I was born in Jerusalem.  And I grew up near Tel Aviv.  I, ah, moved to a city near Tel Aviv; it’s called, um, Rishom. R-I-S-H-O-M.  Um, pretty young, probably, um, 2, 3 year old.  Yeah, uh, after I mo…  I grew up there and then when I was … when I was 9 … 19, 20, I moved to Tel Aviv for, um, for four or five years.  Yeah.  At school, 7 years old.  More British.  My mother’s from Morocco and my father is from Poland.  I have no idea. Yeah. [unintelligible]  I love school.  I hated vacation.  My mom said that every time that, every time there’s a vacation, it’s bad for me because I wouldn’t know what to do.  And I’m still like that.  Yeah.  Well now I read or I just relax.  Now I’ve learned to relax, but when I was younger I like to [unintelligible]. Math. Math and biology and chemistry.  But math was my favorite.  I don’t know, what is it?  I think, third grade?  Fourth grade is like when you really start to, yeah.  Hebrew, Italian, and a little bit of French, and, uh, English, and I understand a little bit of Spanish. …

TRANSCRIBED BY: Elizabeth Terrel

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 30/05/2008

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