Italy Four - Text
Subject is female, a student, in her 20's. She is from Possagno, near Venice. This was recorded by Yuji Tsuboi and Paul Meier on 3.03.200 and edited by Paul Meier a few days later. The subject teaches Italian as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. Notice the elided 'h', and the use of the classic instrusive schwa. She recites a prayer in Italian. Running time: 00:03:50.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
I was born in 1972, so I'm 20 years old. So we are clear. Haha.. I'm from Italy, and I was born near Venice, and I live also near Venice right now. And... ah.. what about... My family? So I have sister. She is older than me, and we live all together in the Possagno. Possagno is the name of my place. It's ah.. ama an hour and a half for far from Venice, and it's very small because it's just eight hundred inhabitants. So it's very different from here. Lawrence is not big, but it's bigger than Possagno. Ahaha... So I studied foreign languages at the high school, and I have a university degree in political science with a eh.. emphasis on an international trade. And I took it at the university of Padua. And now I'm here to get a master in the business communication. So I just started this experience because this is my second semester. This is my first semester as a graduate student, and also I'm here. I'm working here. I'm an Italian GTA. I'm teaching Italian to undergraduate students, and now I'm teaching the elementary level of Italian. And so, I teach to people who don't know nothing anything about Italian. And so, this is a very interesting experience, but I think that everything here is ah.. very interesting. The everything is new. It's a completely new experience for me because when I was at the university, I used to live in an apartment and not in my place. So I stay away for the week, but then in the weekend, I had an opportunity to came back. But here, just after four or five month I can go home, and so I have to organize my whole life here. And this means study, work, but also live. And also means do everything in the house cleaning, laundry. And this is very ah... to organize everything. It's a little bit difficult especially at the beginning. Now I'm get used ah... everything that it's a.. it's much more comfortable for me and so... I think it's very good. Then I'm happy to be here because this is.. this was my dream. Since I was in the high school, I wanted to go or to come here in the States or to study or to work. I didn't know exactly what I wanted but ah... For me, States are something... our dream. And so, I'm realizing my dream and so. Now I'm studying then probably who will see what happen in the future? I don't know. [Subject recites a prayer in Italian] This is a prayer. A Christian prayer.
Transcribed by Yuji Tsuboi