Poland 8

Listen to Poland 8, a 25-year-old woman from Gmina Wejherowo, Poland. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 25

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 08/11/1984

PLACE OF BIRTH: Gmina Wejherowo, Poland

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Polish/Caucasian

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: Subject was attending college at the time of this interview.

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

The subject was born and raised in Poland, and we have no information about the subject living elsewhere.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject learned English for nine years during pre-school and high school.

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RECORDED BY: Piotr Dobrowolski

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 11/10/2009

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born in Wejherowo; that is a heart of Pomeranian Kashuben. I’m waiting for my brother and my sister-in-law. I am expecting to meet them and talk about their new house, which they are want, which they want to build. They was yesterday, uh, looking for some, uh, place to, to build this house, and they’ve find, uh, charming, uh, piece of filth near the, uh, forest. Uh, now they are thinking that, uh, about, uh, what kind, uh, of home to build. Uh, we want to talk also about visiting our, uh, next brother and his wife. They are going to visit us, uh, for one week. Uh, he’s wife of our, uh, brother. Uh, I didn’t see her, uh, any time because they are living in United States. I’m very looking to meet her. I, uh, I talk with her a long, uh, conversation at phone or Skype, and now I want to meet her, uh, in real life. Now when my brother lives there, I would, uh, love to go to USA because I want to see how he lives, in what town he lives in Chicago. Uh, I would like to see all things that he is looking, uh, all day long.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Peotr Dobrowolski

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 11/10/2009

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