Saudi Arabia One - Text
Subject is a male college student, 20 years old, born 1986, and raised in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was learning English in Ohio, when he was recorded 2.24.06 by D'Arcy Smith. He has Diploma in Engineering. Subject talks about what it is like to be away from home and the transition of coming to American/school work.
Running time 00:04:56
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
I really miss my family after I come here. M-m, I have now one month-and-a-half, uh, I didn’t see my family, my friend, all my. . .you know. So, really I miss my family and I have stress here ‘cause, uh, I don’t know how to talk with, uh-h, the people here. Nobody can understand me if I talk, because the accent, and you know. M-m, what else? And the study here, I think it’s, uh, I don’t like the way of study because the teacher give us a lot of homework and, you know, lot of homework and, uh, you think about your family and it’s, uh, it give me more, ah, stress. After I came here I didn’t find. . .I. . .know. . .I know how much now the fellow for my friends. You know what-what I mean? I like, uh, the way of life. It’s free and all the people, you know, friendly. And I like this. But they don’t like us, that’s. . .If I have good, uh, gr-, uh, grade-grade here and, uh, come back to my country I will have a good job, and I ha-, will have, uh, a good life.
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY LYNN BAKER, 5 AUGUST, 2008