South Africa Eleven - Text

In this interview a twenty-one-year old Caucasian Female talks about her family, her hobbies and her life as a drama student. She was born and raised in Pretoria, Gauteng.
This more cosmopolitan region would have secured consistent exposure to spoken English. Such exposure is possibly notable in her dialect as her syllable stress patterns
reflect South African English. The /R/ sound is also less pronounced than it would be in Afrikaans speakers who have had less exposure to spoken English. Interviewed by Marth Munro in October 2005.

Running time: 03:23

Recorded Karina Lemmer, 2005. Edited by Paul Meier, October 4, 2005.

TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH

I come from South Africa. I was born in Pretoria. My father is an engineer and my mother is a teacher. We are three children. My brother is also an engineer and my sister is a financial accountant. I grew up in an Afrikaans, uh, family. We speak English, few times but very few times. And I’m studying drama so this is a—a dual-language institution, so we speak English and Afrikaans, yeah. We get taught in English and in Afrikaans. But my hobbies are hockey and dancing and singing. And I want to be an actress one day, so I’m studying hard for it. This is my third year now. I’ll be doing my fourth year next year. And then we’ll wait and see what happens in the future. And then maybe one day, I’m famous.

UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY JOHN WRIGHT 20 AUGUST, 2008