Korea One - Text
Female, born South Korea, 1974. Studying at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS for four years at the time this recording was made in 1999. English still halting with medium-strong accent.
Transcription of Unscripted Speech
Ok um I'm from Korea. So almost four years ago I came to America. And also I have rai.. *raised in coun.. countryside in South Korea but *I moved to the small city with my sister to get a education over there. So I got education high school and college, in university, and then I came to America. Actually um the student in *living in Korea they start children English from middle school. But we usually just learned, you know, grammar things except, you know, how to speak English, n how to listen, how to write, *write. So before I came to United States, you know, I've never met, how can I say, n.. I've never even spoken with you know American you know. How do you. I just, you know, studied lots of grammars. I had a Korean English teacher so, just they taught us just how to, you know, grammar and, you know, grammar things. So unn *after I came to United States and I had a lotsa lot of troubles in in how to speak English. Mm now it's it's kinda is not really difficult for me because I have a lot of *American friends. I usually go to *American church so I met them from there. And also *after I know their culture and [??] their thoughts and everything, it's easier for me.
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Transcribed by Kevin Flynn