Russia 27

Listen to Russia 27, a 32-year-old man from St. Petersburg, Russia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 32

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 02/11/1988

PLACE OF BIRTH: St. Petersburg, Russia

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Russian/White

OCCUPATION: site-reliability engineer

EDUCATION: higher (engineering major)

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

At the time of this recording, the subject had been living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for almost four years.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject listened to English-language music, trying to imitate accents of such bands as Limp Bizkit and Metallica. He also attended extensive live-speaking sessions with people from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, for over a month, two to five hours each day.

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): 09/01/2021

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 was born in Leningrad, USSR, in 1988. As a teenager, I listened to a lot of U.K. and U.S. music, watched a number of TV shows without dubbing, trying to replicate the pronunciation. Whenever I had the opportunity, I’d practice my English skills, be it talking or writing or listening. It all paid off when I started to interview for jobs abroad; all of those were in English. I’ve been living in the Netherlands for almost 4 years now, and some natives mistake my accent for Dutch, which is flattering.

I’m an IT professional, although my university major was power engineering. I haven’t worked a single day as a power engineer, as I realized towards the end of my education that this field doesn’t really interest me. On the other hand, I’ve been interested in computers since I was about six years old. So the transition to IT felt natural and easy enough.

So it was a little something about me. Cheers and have a good day!

[The subject speaks Russian]: Надеюсь, эта информация будет полезна для составления каталогов акцентов! Рад был помочь, и до новых встреч.

[Transliteration: Nadeus’ eta informatsia budet polezna dlya sostavlenia katalogov aktsentov. Rad byl pomoch. Ih do novykh vstrech.

English translation: I hope this information will be useful for compiling catalogs of accents. I was glad to help. See you soon.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Ivan Masterov

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 09/01/2021

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

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

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