Russia Eight - Text
This female subject a 20 yr. old journalism major from southern Russia. She was born in 1980 in Azerbaizhan and moved throughout Caucasus (Southern Russia) and Czechoslovakia in a military family, before settling in Rostov-On-Don in 1992. She taught herself English from tapes and books in addition to the regular grammar classes offered in school. She is an Armenian-Russian.The subject has some of the very stereotypical Russian sounds.
She still has the dark [l] in her speech. And her English was more British English influenced, so she still uses [I] in place of the [i] (even = [Iv?n]) and she is heard also using [j] in words like 'Duke'. She doesn't use plosives in her speech with [t] and [d] and can be heard substituting [d] for [ð]. She uses the pure [u] and [e]. She doesn't substitute [v] for [w] and she makes a very conscious effort to use [?] instead of [s] in the ends of words like 'north' but is not always successful. Running time: 00:05:27.
Recorded by Colum Morgan and edited by Paul Meier, May 3, 2002.