Finland Two - Transcription
"Ok, My uh My father's American. My mother's a Fin. And uh I I was brought up uh speaking Finnish, but I heard uh English spoken by my father most to my mother and of course through television and then uh I visited here for a couple of dimes times in my youth ah during summer so I got kind of influenced from those trips and then I started in fifth grade started English in school and I started uh for eight years English there and uh of course they teach you a more kind of um neutral accent usually not very British not too American and then uh of course my father he doesn't have tha a really American accent uh he uh th some say he hes he has kind of Mid-Atlantic almost so called um but I I think he didn't develop a very he was from Oklahoma but he didn't develop a really umm very kind of particular American accent in that way and eh at work he speaks mo almost mostly with a British British eh colleagues at the University ah and um so he doesn't he doesn't have very American accent as such and then about my accent of course I lived here for one and a half years studying so that probably has some influence I know how much cause I I don't know how I how I'm being changing. I visit of course London but I didn't week I just learned that I can I don't understand many people there especially people speaking Cockney. Going to new places, like, eh, going to pre-school, remembering like the first day, first day of school or something like that also probably most memorable things that I could tell tell my some of my friends here I could choose in summer three places I could swim in the lake in the that would be that would be of course um not saltwater or sweetwater freshwater and then uh in the sea and or in the fifty meter long swimming hole yes I would choose (laughs) they of course the water in the sea there isn't very salty cause of it's uh it's kind of half half and half it's not very it's like cause the um the Baltic Sea doesn't receive much s-salt from the from the Danish straits what do you call them last summer I th I thought I swam there it it seemed to be pretty salty sometimes they get kind of (unintelligible) call them like pulses of salt salty water although May 1st is pretty big it's kind of the beginning of of summer or spring I don't know where and then the midsummer festival that's big thing and then uh of course Christmas also probably biggest yes."
Transcribed by Josh Meyer