Thailand 3

Listen to Thailand 3, a woman in her 50s from Bangkok, Thailand, who has lived her adult life in the United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 50s

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

PLACE OF BIRTH: Bangkok, Thailand

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Thai (exact ethnicity unknown)

OCCUPATION: accountant

EDUCATION: college graduate

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

The subject has lived in the United States since the age of about 16 or 17.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

Her husband is also from Thailand, so they speak Thai at home.

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RECORDED BY: Paul Meier

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Well I grew up in Bangkok. Actually, I was born and raised there. I came here to the States, since I was, I believe 16 or 17 for high school here, for junior and senior in high school. My parents sent me here actually to start off, because my dad is a high-rank military officer; he came to [?] to live here and he wanted his daughter — I’m the oldest daughter of the family — to uh, also be like bilingual. Actually, that’s how I want, I want to speak different language. So to uh, in order to speak English and become interpreter  work in United Nations, and so I — so that’s why I end up here; I thought that I could speak English fluently; I was a French major here during the time, so um, during college. And after that he’s — I’m supposed to go to France to further my education there so I could speak French fluently. But things end up here so uh, after college I got married instead, so I never go to France, so I had my family and that’s how I end up here. My husband’s from Thailand; that’s why I can’t get rid of my accent regardless because we speak Thai at home. My boys, I have three boys, they all were born here; they all KU graduate. They lived — two of them lived in Lawrence, and one of them lived in Kansas City. I speak to them in English because they don’t know how to speak Thai. I do speak Thai when I go home.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Faith Harvey

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

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