Panama 1

Listen to Panama 1, a 22-year-old man from Panama. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 22

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 03/09/1987

PLACE OF BIRTH: Miami, Florida, United States (but raised in Panama)

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Panamanian (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: server

EDUCATION: college

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

The subject moved to Panama as a newborn and lived there until age 19, when he moved to Columbia for one year. After that, he moved to Downey, California, in the United States.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject was raised by English-speaking parents.

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

RECORDED BY: Jason Oles (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 01/12/2009

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I borned in Miami in 1987. I just spend there like twenty days; my mom took me her to her country but both of my parents are from Panama; I’ll spend there the next eighteen years of my life grow there study there everything. Then when I was 19, I moved from Panama to Columbia;  lived there for a year and came back here to LA. Since 2007, I’m here.. … I start, um ,the career that I liked in 2006 ya 2006, um, it was uhh TV production I studied that for a year down there in, uhh, University Latina of Panama, and I was just excited for, for it, but I couldn’t afford it because I was paying rent, going to school it was pretty in Panama down there it’s pretty expensive; it was a private university and whatever your earning doesn’t, it’s not enough to pay rent, and, um, school at the same time so I had to left school, and well since then I been just working. But I, uh, enjoyed like the time that I spend  studying that that was one of like  I I don’t like being in front of the camera sounds weird I just like be behind the camera like do all the stuff production.

[Subject then speaks part of the scripted text in Spanish]: Bueno, está una historia para ti: Sarah Perry que su veterinaria infermada… veterinaria, que estado trabajando para un Viejo soy de en un desierto distrito del territorio, así que ella fue muy feliz de comenzar un nuevo trabajo en una magnífica consulta privada en el Cuadrado del norte del la calle Duque.

[English translation: Well, here’s a story for you: Sarah Perry was a veterinary nurse who had been working daily at an old zoo in a deserted district of the territory, so she was very happy to start a new job at a superb private practice in North Square near the Duke Street Tower.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Jason Oles (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 01/12/2009

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

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

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