Quebec 1

Listen to Quebec 1, a 47-year-old woman from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 47

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1952

PLACE OF BIRTH: Mont-joli, Quebec, Canada

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

OCCUPATION: faculty coordinator

EDUCATION: N/A

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

The subject lived in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, for 20 years. She also lived in Cairo, Egypt, for six years.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

She is a native French speaker, and her English is a little halting and her accent strong.

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

RECORDED BY: Krista Scott

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/06/1999

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Um, I’m Louise [name withheld]  from Quebec City, Canada. I’m 47 years old. I was born in a very little town named Mont Joli, in Gaspésia. Um, I grown up … far … I grown up, you know, in this area, Mont Joli and then I moved further nord … north. And, ah, I spent 20 years in Quebec City. And I live in a, in a very, ah, very nice part of Quebec City, in the historic part of the town. And I love it. I like architecture a lot. And it was … I was surrounded by all the architecture from the, um, 18, 17 century. And I think it’s the, um, most beautiful city in the Quebec province. And I came in Egypt in, ah,  ’93 and, ah, I love Egypt too. And I hope I will stay here for a long time. And I, I’m working at the American University in Cairo. I am the faculty services coordinators, coordinator. And I like this job a lot too, and because I have to meet all the faculty of the university. I think people from Quebec City are very, ah, I mean they are, I think they are sociable people … ah and the witty talk to the, the newcomers, ah, in the city. And, ah, and when I came here in Egypt, some colleagues of mine told me that they wanna have relatives in Quebec. Ah, they told me that in a way the, ah, Egyptian look like the, ah, Quebecers. Especially the one from, from Quebec because they’re … sometimes act the same when they see newcomers in their town. And they are not snob and, ah, snobbish, or whatever, I mean. And I think this is true.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Paul Meier

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/10/1999

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

COMMENTARY BY: N/A

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

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