Switzerland 16

Listen to Switzerland 16, a 17-year-old girl from Poschiavo and Chur, Switzerland. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 17

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 30/04/1996

PLACE OF BIRTH: Poschiavo, Switzerland

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Swiss (exact ethnicity and race N/A)

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: academic upper secondary school

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

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject has Italian and Pus’ciavin as her native languages.

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

RECORDED BY: Lukas Tribelhorn

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 13/09/2013

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 really like dancing. Um, haha, um, I do thre…, two different kinds. Once I do jazz; the other time I do bellydance. Um, my other hobbies are singing, um, playing the guitar; I’m also in a choir, haha, um, yes, hmm. I really like the film Intouchable because there are some really special, hahaha. … Um, um, it’s my favorite movie because of the story; it’s sad and funny at the same time, and there is a lot of tragic in it.

[Subject speaks in German]: OK, also, also mini hobbies sind jazztanze und buuchtanz denn ussserdem tueni no gitarre spiile und singe; also i singe au no imene chor, und min lieblingsfilm, haha, isch Intouchable will sehr viel so verschideni aspekt het; I finden au u…, so glichzitig lustig und au trurig und, kei ahnig.

[Translation: OK, so, so my hobbies are jazz dance and bellydance. Further, I also play the guitar and I sing; I sing in choir as well, and my favorite movie, haha, is Intouchable because it has many different aspects; I also think that…, so happy and sad at the same time, and I don’t know.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Lukas Tribelhorn

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

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

COMMENTARY BY: N/A

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

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