Italy Two - Text
Subject white male, twenties, lifelong resident of Rimini, Italy. Came to the USA six months prior to this recording by Paul Meier at the University of Kansas in 1999. Fairly strongly accented English. Speaks of learning English from recordings of American popular songs. Running time 00:02:28.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
I'm Italian. I come from a town on the Eastern coast of Italy. It's Rimini. I'm twenty-eight and uh I always lived in...in..a...Italy until like six month ago I came here. I, I traveled sometimes around Europe but uh it was only for two reason and not for, you know, to to live somewhere else. I graduated a University of Urbino. It is a little town near my..my..my home town and I graduated in Italian literature and uh...I really uh didn't study English language at the University because our requirements were only about Italian, literature, culture...I uh usually in Italy we have uh a lot of English or French classes during the high school and the middle school...and now they started to teach Italian a English in the elementary school. I think it's uh useless if you, ya know, learn English during the high school and then you stay like uh for seven years without, uh, without practice it...and I was uh helped by the fact that I like English music so much so I I had this who! le stuff of records all English and I could uh, you know, practice in such...some way..this this uh language.
Transcribed by Emily Beste