Saudi Arabia 5

Listen to Saudi Arabia 5, a 28-year-old man from Qatif, Saudi Arabia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 28

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 18/03/1982

PLACE OF BIRTH: Qatif, Saudi Arabia

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Saudi Arabian (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: bachelor’s in business, study toward master’s degree in computer science

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

At the time of the interview, the subject had lived in the United States for two years.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject speaks an Arabic dialect that is specific to Qatif. He attended college in Dhahran, a nearby town, where he studied American English for five years.

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

RECORDED BY: Matthew Evanoff (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 15/11/2010

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I am from Saudi Arabia. Um, I was born and raised in a small town called Qatif, of a place, or it’s, uh, located in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia. I spent a like almost my whole life in that town, uh, except my, uh, college life was in a different city call Dhahran. Uh, I studied English for, u,h five years in the college, and then I was, um, I graduated, and then, uh, I worked with the bank for two years. Uh, I moved to the U.S., uh, in 2008, uh, to, uh, uh, to do my master’s degree in computer science, and that’s it.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Matthew Evanoff (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 15/11/2010

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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