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France Five - Transcription

I come from uh, uh, Besancon, a town in the east of the France and it's close to center, it's it's close to Switzerland, it's a little town, when, where I grew up. And uh, uh, I stay here. I, uh, uh did my studies here. And last year I decided to to come here, er, to learn how to speak English. So it's, uh,. . . first time I go in ano- I live in another country. And uh, I just, er, its an, it was an exchange student so I just stay for one year. I learn English during my the school. . . for ten years. But the system in France is not really good to learn a language so uh, when I came here I couldn't speak. . .I couldn't understand anything so . . .I took some AEC classes for one semester and, uh, now, uh, I, uh, follow some KU classes. I don't know when-when I lived in Besancon before moving in another town, I was, ummm, I lived in an apartment and I used to. . .to play with a-a guy who has the same age than me. It was in the same levelope (unclear) the. . . building, and we usually, we play, we played with, um, a bicycle. . . together, and ,uh, we made a lot of noise, and something like that and uh, I remember a neighbor who didn't like when we play in the, in the all (hall). So, usually ww. . I don't know, we had, we were. . two years. .ago, two years old, I think. And, but I am remember, she was always angry about it.

Transcribed by Jennifer Pinker

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