Thailand 1

Listen to Thailand 1, a woman from Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: N/A

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1979

PLACE OF BIRTH: Nakhon Ratchasima, in northeastern Thailand

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Thai (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: N/A

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

Subject has spent time in Canada.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

OK, I’m from Koyat or Nakhon Ratchasima; it has two names, so one is really long so it has kind of like, nickname called Koyat, and it’s … about three to four hours from Bangkok; it’s northeastern part of the country. I’ve lived there — I’ve lived there um, since I was born until I was … about …18, I think, yeah 17 or 18. Well English wasn’t my first language, it was — it was not, but um, I started to learn English when I was in kindergarten actually, but I just learned like, how to write ABC and just, you know, how — sing a song and things like that. I was an exchange student for one summer um, in Canada… I went to Vernon, which is in British Columbia, like a year before I came here.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Faith Harvey

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 13/03/2008

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