Netherlands 3

Listen to Netherlands 3, an 18-year-old man from Breda, Netherlands. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 18

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1988

PLACE OF BIRTH: Sao Paolo, Brazil (but raised in Breda, Netherlands)

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Brazilian/Dutch

OCCUPATION: high school student

EDUCATION: The subject was still in high school at the time of this recording.

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

The subject was born in San Paolo, Brazil, but was raised in Breda, in Brabant, Netherlands, by adoptive Dutch parents.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Subject

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 16/01/2006

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Well, I was born in Sao Paolo, in Brazil, so, Dutch parents adopted me, and, and ever since I have lived in Brabant; it’s one of the southern provinces of the Netherlands. At the moment I’m ordinary high school student; I am very interested in languages; I have really liked English, while there is, there’s a few things I don’t like about it, but yes. um, I think it’s, it’s a very good language when it comes to an international language it’s, it’s quite learnable. Um, uh, I think it’s a pity that I don’t have French or German at school; I really like French; I used to learn it some years ago, and my Dutch accent is a bit — prevent, prevents it. Uh, I like the Dutch language, but I can imagine foreigners have difficulty learning it because everyday language is quite different from standard Dutch and we have some really diff-, difficult sounds like /ei/, /ou/, and /sch/. Um, I have also created my own languages, which is called “Conlanging.” [Term derives from combining various letters of the phrase “constructed languaging.”]  Um, I can, I can fill the gap between what I w-, try to say and what I can’t say in my own language or in English or whatever, so I also write poems. I think I want to be a linguist, or somebody related to culture, perhaps in Brazil, so I am going to learn Portuguese; yes, um, I think it’s a really pretty language; also Chinese is also pretty language, and m-m-maybe I am going to learn it because I think it’s the language of the future.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Faith Harvey and Chris Huff

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 20/03/2008

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SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

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