Switzerland 23

Listen to Switzerland 23, a 17-year-old girl from Kilchberg and Zurich, 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): 20/03/1996

PLACE OF BIRTH: Kilchberg, Switzerland

GENDER: female

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): 17/09/2013

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Um, so just about my hobbies or something: Um, in my free time, I dance ballet, um, three times a week, um, with point shoes and everything. Um, in holidays, I often go surfing, windsurfing in Sardinia in autumn; um, like this year, the second week of my holidays I will go there, for surfing and stuff. And after my school here, I will, I wanna go to Australia for just living there or made, make a s… um, another school or something and to learn about the new culture or something like that, yeah. And after that, I wanna go, come back and study in the ETH, um, in Zurich, um, like biology or something. Um, I have little brother; I think, yeah, I spend much of time with him, just playing or something, and I often do something with my friends, like my four best friends; um, I go to concerts or just shopping or something like that, yeah.

[Subject speaks in German]: ähm, also tanze sit ich vieri bin, ballet, und han oft uffüehrige gmacht und so, han früehner harfe gspielt und ich mach au no akrobatik recht oft und liechtathletik, und jo so was schuel aabelangt bin ich chli minimalistisch i allem mögliche, ähm, weg dem muesi jetz wiederhole, aber ich finde dass schuel weniger wichtig isch als irgendwie ich selber also hanich do chli e lausigi iistellig dezue, ähm, über, ähm, min nochname, ich bin halb, also ich bin früehner mol Polnisch gsi aber jede meint ich segi Russin.

[Translation: Um, so I dance since I was 4 years old, ballet, and often did stage performances. I used to play the harp, and I also often do acrobatics and track and field sports; and yes, concerning school, I am a little bit minimalist. Um, that’s also why I am repeating now, but in my opinion, school isn’t as myself, so I have quite a lousy attitude. Um, concerning, um, my surname, I am half, well I used to be Polish, but most people think that I’m Russian.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Lukas Tribelhorn

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

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