South Korea 1

Listen to South Korea 1, a 25-year-old woman from the South Korean countryside. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 25

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1974

PLACE OF BIRTH: South Korea

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Korean

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: The subject was in her fourth year of university when interviewed.

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

She had been in Kansas, in the United States, for four years at the time of this recording.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

Despite having spent four years studying at the University of Kansas when this recording was made, subject’s speech is still halting, with a medium-strong accent.

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

RECORDED BY: Paul Meier

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 1999

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

OK, um, I’m from Korea. So almost four years ago I came to America. And also I have rai.. *raised in coun.. countryside in South Korea, but *I moved to the small city with my sister to get a education over there. So I got education high school and college, in university, and then I came to America. Actually, um, the student in *living in Korea they start children English from middle school. But we usually just learned, you know, grammar things except, you know, how to speak English, n how to listen, how to write, *write. So before I came to United States, you know, I’ve never met, how can I say, n.. I’ve never even spoken with you know American you know. How do you. I just, you know, studied lots of grammars. I had a Korean English teacher so, just they taught us just how to, you know, grammar and, you know, grammar things. So unn *after I came to United States and I had a lotsa, lot of troubles in in how to speak English. Mm now it’s it’s kinda is not really difficult for me because I have a lot of *American friends. I usually go to *American church so I met them from there. And also *after I know their culture and, so [??] their thoughts and everything, it’s easier for me.
* – vocalic pause

TRANSCRIBED BY: Kevin Flynn

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