Sichuan 4

Listen to Sichuan 4, a 21-year-old woman from Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and Beijing, China, who has also lived in Canada and the United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 21

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1990

PLACE OF BIRTH: Chengdu, Sichuan Province

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Han Chinese

OCCUPATION: student working in costume shop

EDUCATION: Subject has some college experience, in costume design.

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

She lived in Vancouver, Canada, and Beijing, China, for a year at a very young age. At the time of the recording, she had been living in Fort Worth, Texas, in the United States, for two years.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

Her primary languages are Mandarin and Sichuanese.

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RECORDED BY: Scott Moffitt and Krista Scott

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 08/12/2011

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

OK, I’m from Chengdu, China, which is, uh, one of the biggest city in southwest of China. It’s also capitol of Sichuan Province. And for Chengdu, I think it’s, it’s famous for at least two things; one is for the food. We’re famous for our hot pie, our spicy hot pie, which you can … you can find tons of hot pie restaurant in the street, in the city. And another thing is the panda; we’re the home of the panda. So, any, any place in the world … the panda is from my city. OK, one of my favorite childhood memories was in Vancouver, Canada, cause we … um … I and my parents we used to live there for a year … and back then we’re, we didn’t have so much money, we’re kind of poor, but just us three … we live together, uh, we had no friends, no relatives there. Just us three, we’re happy, even though we’re poor. And I didn’t speak any English, but I went to school there. Everyone treated me so nice. I miss those days.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Scott Moffitt and Krista Scott

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 08/12/2011

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