Netherlands 6

Listen to Netherlands 6, a 29-year-old from Tilburg, Netherlands. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 29

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 23/10/1979

PLACE OF BIRTH: Tilburg, Netherlands

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Dutch

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: tertiary

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

The subject was born in Tilburg, The Netherlands, and has lived in Australia for five years.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Martina Crerar

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 18/06/2009

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I’m born in the south of the Netherlands in a city called Tilburg. It’s quite a little city compared to other countries, I guess; even Amsterdam is quite a small city, and is a capital. I thought I should tell a little story from when I was 2 or 3 years old. I don’t actually recall this myself, but I have vivid images of it through the stories my parents told us about it. Apparently when my brother and I were, I was about 3 and he was about 5, we watched this winter Olympics on the TV, and we saw skiing, and we got very excited, and then our parents promised us that soon they would take us skiing. Then a few weeks later, we were awake on a Sunday morning, and my parents were still fast asleep, and we thought it was about time, that soon [snow] had arrived, so what we did was we went into our basement, and we grabbed all the butter we could find, and we pasted it on the floor and we were sliding across the room. We had the best of time, and then we went up to my parents’ bedroom, all excitedly, to announce that “we were skiing.” So, of course, my father wasn’t very happy, but my mother burst out in laughter, but they spent three hours trying to get the butter off our body and out of our hair.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Martina Crerar

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 18/06/2009

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