Poland One - Text
Male, born 1956 and raised in Warsaw. Attended university there. Speaks English very fluently and well, but in textbook Polish accent. Subject was an engineer living in Cairo, Egypt for some years when Krista Scott recorded him there in 1999. He reads entire Rainbow Passage and talks with Krista about Polish climate and food. You will hear dark 'l' though his command of English 'r' is impeccable. Excellent model for educated Pole acquiring English in Europe. Edited by Paul Meier on 10/10/99. Running time: 02:58.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
I was born in Warsaw, Poland, and I spent all my childhood there, I went to school there, I studied there at the University, where I studied architecture, and now I'm 43, uh, I have been a conservation architect working in Egypt for quite a few years. The weather in Poland, it's [unintelligible] pretty awful for most of the year, and it's quite unpredictable, you can have a very fine year with a hot, nice sunny summer, and a cra--snowy winter, and the next year we can have rain for all the summer and cold awful...uh, cold, awful rain for all the summer and then cold awful rain through all the winter, uh, so it's quite unpredictable, it can be very beautiful of course. And when it's really awful and cold and snowy and freez--freezing and...all, then..it's time for the truly Polish food and Polish drinks and this is where you shoot and {?}, Polish food like {?} and vodka.
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY FAITH HARVEY 2 JULY 2008