Wales 6

Listen to Wales 6, a 20-year-old woman from Hirwaun and Carmarthen, Wales. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 20

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 22/06/1989

PLACE OF BIRTH: Aberdare, Wales

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Caucasian/Welsh

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: college undergraduate

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

The subject was born in Aberdare, Wales, and grew up in Hirwaun. She has also lived in Carmarthen and was living in Llanelli when recorded.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Jocelyn Pronovost (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 04/12/2009

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Uh, to go to uni, when I was 18, and then I went to live, I’m living in a flat in Llanelli, so I went to move up to Carmarthen; then I moved out to Llanelli, and I live in a flat there. I live about, like, twenty minutes away from the two big cities, so like, it’s really like, suburban, and sort of like, Westernized more. A couple weeks before I started, because I was going to go be a tattooist. And, uh, this guy, that I was going to, like, he was helping me, like, build my portfolio up. And he’s like, “Yeah, so like, if you’re going to be a tattooist you need to, like, do something else, that’s like going to, like, pay, you know. So you need, like, a real job.” So I was like, “All right. Well, Gaz is going to do, like, props making. I like that. I’ll go do that.” And then it’s turned out it’s, like, eaten my entire life, and I can’t do like, tattooing; no time to draw. I’m like, “Oh, my God.” That, it’s sort of, like, put me along a different path. Like, where, where we live, it rains. Like, it rains so much, right, the other day, my grandma’s telling me that, like, the other, like … last week, or the week before, up in Brecon by near where I live, two old women got swept away down a river because it was raining so much. They died, like, yeah. That’s how much it rains. Some people as well, ’cause, like, when I first got here, um, my computer broke down. Like, Skype and everything, it was gone, do you know what I mean? So, and then my phone wasn’t working, so I was like, “Oh, my God, I need to use a pay phone.” And I was going, I went, I was just like going around asking people, “Where’s a pay phone?” And they were like, “A what? Pay phone?” I was like, “Yeah, like a public phone. That I need to u-, and nobody had a clue. And then, back at home, if you want to like, international dial, I mean it’s all there in the phone box, show you how to do it. It was just like this little Mexican man, like, “No, no, no, no, no!” I was like, “Oh, my God!” like, “I’m never going to be able to like, phone home ever again.” And I still, to this day, I haven’t used one of your public bloody phones.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Jocelyn Pronovost (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 04/12/2009

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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