Switzerland 20

Listen to Switzerland 20, a 16-year-old boy from Chur, 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): 11/03/1997

PLACE OF BIRTH: Chur, Switzerland

GENDER: male

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 had a language stay in England for three weeks, giving him more exposure to English than the average Swiss student of his age.

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:

So what gonna talk about? I think I will talk about music. I love listening to music, um, pretty much every kind of music that exists, a, as long as it’s been made in the last 20 years or so. I don’t really like this old-fashion, old-fashioned music, but I love listening to HipHop like Tupac and stuff like this, then Bob Marley, and then it goes on to the, to the modern charts like the pop culture, yeah. That’s what I listen to, yeah.

[Subject speaks in German]: ähm, was könnti no verzelle, über mini hobbies, jo i mach gärä sport und wie gseit i lose gärä music, also sport hani lang unihockey gspilt, hockey indr halle halt, isch zimlich intensiv aber eigentlich interessant und sust gärä mit kollege go fuessbal spiile und so, jo, das ischs eigentlich.

[Translation: Um, what else could I talk about, about my hobbies: Yes, I like doing sports, and, as said before, I like listening to music. So sport: I played floorball for a long time, hockey in the gym; it is quite intensive but actually interesting; and else, I like playing football with friends; and, so, yes, that’s it.]

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

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

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