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Thailand One - Text

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Transcription of Unscripted Speech

Okay, I'm from Koyat or Nakhon Ratchasima, it has two names, so one is really long so it has kind of like, nickname called Koyat, and it's..about three to four hours from Bangkok, it's north-eastern part of the country. I've lived there--I've lived there um...since I was born until I was...about..18, I think, yeah 17 or 18. Well English wasn't my first language, it was--it was not, but um, I started to learn English when I was in kindergarten actually, but I just learned like, how to write ABC and just, you know, how--sing a song and things like that. I was an exchange student for one summer um, in Canada...I went to Vernon, which is in British Columbia, like a year before I came here.

Unscripted Speech Transcribed by Faith Harvey 13 March 2008

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