China Eight - Text
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Age: 23
Date of Birth: January 7, 1987
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Chinese
Occupation: Student
Educational Level: 3 years of College
INFLUENCES ON SPEECH
Subject was raised learning to speak Chinese. He began to learn English in middle school while living in China. For his first year and a half at KU he took many ESLP classes and his English improved.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
I was living in China, in my family, I have the ch, only child in my, in my home. My father was a businessman, he got a factory for Doomaker Clothes, and my mother was working at Garment. I got one sister and one brother, they old, older than me. Hmm, I was been America for three years. Uh, when I first came here, it was really hard to study English, but I just really want to get hard to practice my English skill. In my free time I just want play video games, and then watch TV, play basketball. Uh each Friday I play with all the Chinese friends in gym, and uh when I back I play video games like such as PS3 or X-Box, something. And I usually go out, hang out out with friends to watch movie, especially for hero movie, uh the best movie I saw in hero is Saw I could even watch for year by year. Uh, this is a good school, in ch in Kansas in USA, I really glad to choose this school. Because they have a beautiful campus and the professor was really good for teach us and uh still ga I meet a lot of friends and we have party each week. And uh I’m past 21 so I can drink a little bit with my friends. Uh when I graduate in my school year hmm I probably move to large city such as San Francisco or New York to have me to finish the job because my major is finance so I will have my father do some job too.
SAMPLE RECORDED, SPEECH TRANSCRIBED, AND NOTES WRITTEN BY RYAN KLAMEN May 3, 2009.
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