Sinaloa 1

Listen to Sinaloa 1, a 39-year-old man from Sinaloa, Mexico. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 39

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1968

PLACE OF BIRTH: Sinaloa, Mexico

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Mexican

OCCUPATION: mechanic and shop owner

EDUCATION: Subject went to a Mexican university for two years.

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

The subject left Sinaloa at the age of 21 with this wife and lived two years in Los Angeles, California, United States, and 17 years in Victorville, California, where he was residing at the time of this recording.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

His first introduction to English was at an adult school in Los Angeles, where he almost obtained his GED.

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RECORDED BY: John Koppling (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 09/11/2007

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Sinaloa is a place where I was born. It’s pretty much … uh … weather like Texas; it gets hot, it gets humid.  Summers are like a hundred degrees easily with humidity of ninety-five constantly. It’s a, yeah, well, I did it for many years, but, and we didn’t have air-conditioning when I was a kid; they do now. So it’s funny, I go back now and the people, because now they have air-conditioning for years, but I never knew Sinaloa with air-conditioning. So I know, for me going back, it’s like I’m going back to the hot weather, the humidity; I prepare myself for it, you know, and then I get there and everybody is all, “Oh, no it’s too hot, you know, we got to get in the air-conditioning,” and I’m all, “No, you guys are crazy.” I want the heat; I want the humidity; I want to feel it. So I just stay wet all the time, either sweating or just wet yourself.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Paul Meier

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 05/01/2008

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