Philippines 10

Listen to Philippines 10, a 31-year-old man from Cavite City, Philippines. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 31

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 08/11/1981

PLACE OF BIRTH: Pasay City, Philippines (but raised in Cavite City)

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Filipino of Tagalog ancestry

OCCUPATION: independent distributor

EDUCATION: college

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The speaker lived in San Diego, California, United States, for almost half of his life.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject cited education as a major influence in the formation of his current accent. It is also worthy to note that he has been working in environments that use English as a primary medium of communication. He is also a native speaker of Cavite Chavacano and Cavite Tagalog.

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RECORDED BY: Aldrin Fauni-Tanos

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 17/07/2013

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Actually, my main dialect is Chavacano in, from Cavite City. Uh, I learned English from my exposure in the U.S. I was practically raised there, lived there half of my life, and I moved back here in the Philippines. When I got back here in the Philippines, um, I somehow forgot how to speak Tagalog because at our home in the U.S, we only spoke in English and Chavacano.

[Subject speaks in Cavite City Chavacano:] Un poco lang niso podi praticar Chavacano de Cavite otro el Chavacano de Zamboanga tiene nisos mga palabra na otro del Zamboanga, otro, Cavite, por casa el Zamboanga, como Español y Bisaya, pero di nisos como Español y Tagalog.

[English translation: Only a few can speak it. Cavite Chavacano and Zamboanga Chavacano are different. There are words that are different in Zamboanga and different in Cavite because the Zamboanga dialect is like Spanish and Bisaya, while ours is like Spanish and Tagalog.]

That would be all, thank you.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Aldrin Fauni-Tanos

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 15/07/2013

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