Russia 31

Listen to Russia 31, a 20-year-old man from Michurinsk in Tambov Oblast, Russia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 20

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 05/08/2001

PLACE OF BIRTH: Michurinsk, Tambov Oblast

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Russian/White

OCCUPATION: math student

EDUCATION: uncompleted higher

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

The subject has spent time in Moscow but has never lived outside Russia.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: none

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RECORDED BY: Ivan Masterov

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 08/09/2021

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Uh, hello, everyone. I am a Russian student. I’m studying at mathematical faculty, and I have been learning English since I entered the second grade. I like how much content this language gives access to and its consistency at some points.

[Subject says in Russian roughly what he just said in English]: Всем привет, я студент из России. Я изучаю язык со второго класса школы. Мне он нравится за то, как много он открывает в плане изучения чего-то нового, связи с людьми разных областей и разных увлечений.

[Transliteration: Vsem priver, ya student iz Rossii. Ya izuchayu yazyk so vtorogo klassa shkholy. Mne on nravitsya za to, khak mnogo on otkryvaet v plane izucheniya chego-to novogo, svyazi s lyud’mi raznykh oblastei ih raznykh uvlecheniy.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Ivan Masterov

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 13/09/2021

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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