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Poland Seven - Text

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Age:50
Date of Birth: December 25th 1959
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Polish
Occupation: Electrical Engineer
Educational Level:  MA

INFLUENCES ON SPEECH
Was born and raised in Poland. Started learning English in high school. In his early twenties  worked and lived in England for several months. For five years working as an Electrical Engineer for Happaq Lloyd (Germany) and most of the time uses English and German to communicate.

TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
I'm working as a seafarer on the container vessels. My position on the vessel is electrician. Yyy checking condition, all my equipment. At, at eight after breakfast,  yyy, is reported condition of cargo. I'm interesting in reefer containers, and any more function, which is reported should be, should be saved by myself. What is the ryee eee routine job, daily, daily routine job? First, all generator plants. The power generator plants, condition of generators. We have one sub-generator and four diesel-generators on the vessel. How is looking condition, what is the power consumption, what is the power load and etcetera, etcetera. Next point is, yy, checking all electronic devices, like, eee, any navigators components, some of the computers. Okay, so, normal working day is finished around seventeen thirty. Just after this time, so we have evening meal, like dinner, and we have some time for, for our pleasure, for resting. Schedulel of my work is looking very simple - two months on the vessel, and two months at home. Just on Saturday I have planned to join to my vessel. This trip will be looking like voyage to, to far Asia and coming back to Europe.

SAMPLE RECORDED, SPEECH TRANSCRIBED, AND NOTES WRITTEN BY Piotr Dobrowolski ON August 4th 2009

RUNNING TIME: 05:07

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