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Poland Eight - Text

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Age:25
Date of Birth: NOVEMBER 8, 1984
Gender: FEMALE
Ethnicity: WHITE
Occupation: MARRIED
Educational Level: COLLEGE STUDENT

INFLUENCES ON SPEECH
Born and raised in Poland. Learned English for 9 years during pre-school and high school.

TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
I was born in Wejherowo, that is a heart of Pomeranian Kashuben. I’m waiting for my brother and my sister-in-law. I am expecting to meet them and talk about, their new house, which they are want, which they want to build. They was yesterday uh looking for some uh place to to build this house, and they’ve find uh charming uh piece of filth near the uh  forest. Uh now they are thinking that uh about uh what kind uh of home to build. Uh we want to talk also about visiting our uh next brother and his wife. They are going to visit us uh, for one week. Uh he’s wife of our uh brother. Uh I didn’t see her uh any time because they are living in United States. I’m very looking to meet her. I uh I talk with her a long uh conversation at phone or Skype, and now I want to meet her uh in real life. Now when my brother lives there I would uh love to go to USA because I want to see how he lives, in what town he lives in Chicago. Uh I would like to see all things that he is looking uh, all day long.

SAMPLE RECORDED, SPEECH TRANSCRIBED, AND NOTES WRITTEN BY PIOTR DOBROWOLSKI ON OCTOBER 11, 2009

RUNNING TIME: 04:48

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