Switzerland 11

Listen to Switzerland 11, a 16-year-old boy from Basel, Switzerland. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 16

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 12/11/1996

PLACE OF BIRTH: Basel, Switzerland

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Swiss/German

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: academic upper secondary school

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

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Lukas Tribelhorn

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 25/06/2013

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Um, I’m 16, and I was born in Basel, and my hobbies are: I like to do, um, sports; I play tennis in a, in a club, and on the weekend I often go, um, playing football. Yeah, I also like watching, um, football in the stadium, and, yeah, after school when, when I had, um, when I have nothing to do, I go out with friends. I meet them, um, at the river; and, yeah, I like music. I often, um, listen to music. Um, I dont have a favorite music, but I often, um, listen to radio, so I like the music, um, which is in the ch-, in the charts at the moment, and I also haven’t, um, a favorite film, but I like, um, comedians. Um, I like to watch a funny film where you can, um, laugh, laugh, um …

[Subject speaks in German]: Jo was, was gits no zsage, äm, jo aso, äm, mini muetter chunnt us dütschland, isch in dütschland gebore, äm, mi vater use schwiiz, und s schaffed beidi bim radio, mini muetter schafft bim dütsche radio, min vater schafft bim schwiizer radio, also sind beides journaliste, jo sunsch, ebe wie gseit sport, äm, isch öpis vom wichtigste i mim lebe und eifach, jo fuessball macht mer sehr viel spass, grosse FCB-fan.

[Translation: Yes, so what’s more to say? Um, yes, so, um, my mother is from Germany, is born in Germany. Um, my father is from Switzerland, and they both work at a radio; my mother works at the German radio; my father works at the Swiss radio; so they are both journalists. Yes, else, as said before, sport, um, is one of the most important things, and, yes, football is a lot of fun, big FCB-Fan.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Lukas Tribelhorn

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 03/01/2014

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