Italy One - Text
Subject male, later twenties, born and raised by Italian parents in Argentina. Was teaching Italian at the University of Kansas, when recorded there by Paul Meier in 1999. Running time 00:01:34.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
I was born in Italy, uh..long time ago *laughs*. Uh, I was brought up in a..a mixed family, my mother is from Italy and uh, my father is from Argentina uh, so I don't really have uh listened to uh, Italian dialect uh, I grew up with Italian and Argentine in my family. Uh, yeah, it's near Venice uh, I grew up mainly in the north of Italy, I moved around many cities, and I went to a computer science high school near Venice thirty miles from Venice--uh, in Italy you can choose either French of English, and I--I've chosen English, but then I couldn't because their classes already full--fulled up..so I had to study French, and then in high school I had to switch to English because uh, I uh I had to use it with uh--for Computer Science. And I study uh, I am seeking out degree in the school of business a master of science uh, in business, in information systems, and I study and teach Italian at the same time.