Quebec 10

Listen to Quebec 10, a 38-year-old woman from Levis, Quebec, Canada. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 38

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 10/06/1980

PLACE OF BIRTH: Levis, Quebec

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Quebecois/Caucasian

OCCUPATION: baker

EDUCATION: bachelor of arts degree

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

As a teenager, the subject spent one year living as a nanny in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She then went to an English CEGEP (junior college) in Quebec to improve her fluency. At the time of this recording, she was living in Montreal, Quebec.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

Growing up in a monolingual Quebec Francophone family meant she learned English a bit later in her schooling than many urban Quebecois. In addition to learning English in Toronto, she is now married to an American and estimates that she spends at least half of her time communicating in English today.

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RECORDED BY: Adam Lane Bergquist

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 17/04/2019

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

OK, uh, so my hometown is, um, it’s about 20 minutes away from Quebec City. It’s called, uh, Levis. … OK, so, at about, when I was 16 years old, I started to, uh, babysit children in Toronto. I um, I was, uh — I went through an agency. And they set me in the family with two little girls, there, in Toronto. And I went there two summers in a row. And after that, I really wanted to spend a whole year, uh — I took a year off, uh, my high school, actually be-between — after you finish high school and before going to, um, university we have a school that’s called CEGEP here; it’s two years. So before going to that, I said, “I’m gonna take a year off and really learn English, you know, like perfect my English.” So I stayed in that same fail-een-family for a year. They took me with them, and I s-, you know, I babysat their children and also went to school there, for a year. And then that’s how I learn English. Mmhmm. And then I went back home and went in, in English, um, in an English school. Yep. The CEGEP? That school? I did it in English. Which was really hard [subject laughs] because it’s pre-university.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Adam Lane Bergquist

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 19/04/2019

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