Japan 9

Listen to Japan 9, a 24-year-old man from Oita-shi, Oita-ken, on the island of Kyushu, Japan. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 24

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 25/03/1985

PLACE OF BIRTH: Oita-shi, Oita-ken, on the island of Kyushu, Japan

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Japanese

OCCUPATION: model

EDUCATION: two-year-college graduate

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

Subject moved to Gold Coast, Australia, at age 18 to learn English for one year. He then moved to Glendora, California, in the United States to attend Citrus College for two years. He then moved to Tokyo, Japan, for one year, and then back to Southern California in 2009.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Sean Scofield (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 05/11/2009

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

All right, I’ve learned English when I was, uh, 17, so I’ve, no, 18, actually, so I’ve been learning English for, uh, almost five to six years, and I, uh, I graduate, uh um, technical high school in Japan; and after that I went to Australia for learning English, and then I got my dream, which I want to do: I want to work with work for international, uh, business, so I came to United States for entering college, and then I spent two years, um, learning business in the college; and I just graduated. Oh yes, sometime like Japanese harder pronunciation is L and R so, um, I’m still learning L and R, so like you know like how’s the difference between L and R in Japanese, there’s no sound of R so, uh, for example there’s a word uh (unclear) saying (unclear) so which is between L and R, so that’s why like I’m having a hard time saying R more than L, yeah.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Sean Scofield (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 05/11/2009

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