Russia 11

Listen to Russia 11, a woman from Novosibirsk, Russia, who has also lived in the United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

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PLACE OF BIRTH: Novosibirsk, Russia

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Russian/white

OCCUPATION: professor

EDUCATION: undergraduate and post-graduate university level

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

The subject was born and raised in Novosibirsk, Russia. The subject has lived in St. Petersburg and Southern California, in the United States. Overall, she had lived in the United States for 17 years at the time of this recording.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject learned English in school from around 2nd to 5th grade.

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

RECORDED BY: Ruby Hanger (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 11/08/2008

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[INTERVIEWER: Can you tell me a little about your family?] I have two kids. We saw the show yesterday here, uh, “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.” I loved it. Um, I’m learning how to, um, roller skate now because they’re roller skating. So I came with them to the, to the skate rink and I’m like, “Oh I like it here,” and so I’m taking classes now and I’m good at it. [INTERVIEWER: What are some of your favorite countries you’ve been to?] My favorite is Switzerland. I love … and Italy. But Switzerland, I just love the civility of it; it’s so civilized it’s so polite it’s nice it’s…and beautiful I love, it, it has both combination which I really like in a country which is mountains, green … and … uh, water, like, so I like it a lot. I love Sweden too. Like I really like, like Stockholm I liked a lot, I like Swedish peoples, Swedish countries, Sweden very civilized and very advanced, like architecturally, and culturally and yeah. Italy I like a lot to relax and everything, but sometimes Italians as an, as people are not that happy about cause they can be very loud and arrogant, yeah. [INTERVIEWER: How long have you lived here?] I live in California ten years, and in America seventeen. [INTERVIEWER: What are the biggest differences between Californians and Russians?] Californians are so relaxed, you know because of the weather. In Russia people are freezing [laughter] their winter for like six, seven months, and, umm, it’s very relaxed here; it’s very health oriented. Russian people are not health oriented at all; they drink they smoke they, they love to live life, they don’t wanna just you know control and always like think about health and like stop themself from pleasures; no, but Russian people are more emotional; I feel Californians are more like kumbaya kind of like very, uh, like, hu hum, you know. Russians are very like [growl] passionate, so, yeah, it’s different. [INTERVIEWER: Can you recite some Russian poetry?] So here’s from, um, here’s poetry, uh, uh, from Pushkin named [Yevgeny Onegin] [Subject goes on to recite poetry in Russian.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Ruby Hanger (under supervision of David Nevell)

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