Moldova 1

Listen to Moldova 1, a 28-year-old woman from Chisinau, Moldova. 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): 19/01/1986

PLACE OF BIRTH: Chisinau, Moldova

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Caucasian/Moldovan

OCCUPATION: artist/designer

EDUCATION: MFA

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

The subject studied for two years at university in Bucharest, Romania, and for three years of graduate school in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

She was raised bilingual Romanian and Russian, with a strong Russian influence. However, she strongly identifies as Moldovan.

The text used in our recordings of scripted speech can be found by clicking here.

RECORDED BY: Sara Valentine

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 14/09/2014

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Uh, uh, definite we have a Moldovan dialect, as in Romanian Moldova. Nuhh, it’s, it’s little bit different. It sounds different. Transylvanian dialect — it’s also different, it’s very slow kind of [laughs] it’s — and — and — and it’s funny but definitely we can understand each other be – e– even if m-maybe because in, uh, different regions you ha- you calling one object differently or it’s kinda happening anywhere, different words maybe from north to, to south. Now the, the truth is we have a lot of Russian television, and I was growing on Russian television. Um, no Romanian channels, maybe one. And, um, I, I, I think, uh, the influence was good because they have a good school. Nyah, I cannot say that the Russian culture is very interesting, and I think I, I’m raised, I’m, I’m more close to, to, to that understanding in theatre, in like, personal, tragic, life [laughs]. I understand that part; I understand very well. My mother were, um, generation; they were forced to go to university and, uh, just in, in Russian because of, uh, one side all Romanian professor were exiled. In, um, Moldova ’til now, Russian, Russian people or Russian generals they moved to Moldova because it’s a nice weather compared with, uh, even Moscow or Ru- Russia, another part of Russia [laughs], like Moscow/Saint Petersburg and this is it, and after that you don’t want to live there [laughs].

TRANSCRIBED BY: Sara Valentine

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 14/09/2014

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