Russia 21

Listen to Russia 21, a 25-year-old man from Dorogobuzh, Russia. 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): 24/05/1995

PLACE OF BIRTH: Dorogobuzh, Russia

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Russian/White

OCCUPATION: interpreter

EDUCATION: higher

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

The subject lived four years in Orekhovo-Zuevo, where he got his higher education, and three years in Moscow.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject, IDEA Associate Editor Ivan Masterov, has a professional interest in phonetics and accents and dialects, so his accent is not representative of a typical Russian. Instead, like Russia 18 and Russia 20, this recording is an example of a Russian’s mastery of British English.

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

RECORDED BY: Ivan Masterov

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 02/09/2020

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Hello, I am happy to welcome you on the IDEA website, which could help to those who seek find that they strive for in an accent sphere.

OK, hello everyone, and I really welcome you to the IDEA website. I just wanted to express many thanks to the, ah, organizers of this website for allowing me to be, you know, the one who could like make a step in, in this, ah, different field of phonetics and also like to mark my own way in this sphere. So, please, do give it a listen; do give all the recordings a listen if you’re interested in this field, and just take care.

[The subject speaks Russian]: Здравствуйте, я рад приветствовать вас на международном сайте IDEA, который помогает всем тем, кто ищет, найти то, что они хотят в области акцентов.

[Transliteration: Zdravstvuite, ya rud privetstvovat’ vas nah mezhdunarodnom site IDEA, khotoriy pomoghaet vsem tem, khto ischet, niti to, chto ony chotyat, v oblasti ahktsentov.

English translation: Hello, I am happy to welcome you to the IDEA website, which could help those who seek what they strive for in an accent sphere.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Ivan Masterov

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 02/09/2020

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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