Japan 7

Listen to Japan 7, a 25-year-old woman from Hamamatsu, Japan. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 25

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1982

PLACE OF BIRTH: Hamamatsu, Japan

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Japanese

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: Subject was finishing her senior year in college at the time of this interview.

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

Subject moved to California, in the United States, when she was 20.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

She became fluent in English only after moving to the United States.

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RECORDED BY: Elizabeth Nguyen (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 07/11/2007

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in Hamamastu, Japan, and I learned in English, no, I learned English at UCI in California.  And there was ESL, and I went to three quarters there, then I quit. Then I went to New York.  Cause I wanted to go to school there. And I stayed in New York like a month, looking for school, then I came back because I didn’t want to live there. So, then I went to community college and I came to university. Oh, Cal State Fullerton. OK.
[What’s the difference between fashions here in the USA and in Japan?] The difference between fashion in Japan and United States is that people in Japan doesn’t really know how to wear casual.  ‘Cause they just dress up to go everywhere.  Maybe they think, you know, that’s rude to wear casual, ’cause that’s how I feel sometime.  But then here, people just wear casual to go to school and to study, a lot.  Japanese people doesn’t do, and yea I think that’s the difference.  But then there’s nice fashion here too. You know, a lot of cute clothes. I don’t really like Japanese fashion so, yea, I like it here.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Elizabeth Nguyen (under supervision of David Nevell)

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