Spain Two - Text
Subject is a 24 year old female recent college graduate. She has a degree in theatre from a school in Spain, but was spending a year in the U.S. as the Spanish foreign language assistant at Western Maryland College. She has a very strong Southern Spanish (Seville) dialect. Very prominent transformation of the "v" sound becoming "b" in words such as "veterinary" and "very"; the short "i" sound lengthening to "eee" in "it", "insideÓ. She also often adds an intrusive "e" before words beginning with "s", so "student" becomes "estudent", "Spain" becomes "Espain". Recorded by Elizabeth van den Berg, December 2000 and edited by Paul Meier, 01/03/01. Running time 00:04.58.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
Well I was born in Seville in the South of Spain in 1976, so I'm, I'm getting old. I am the little of my family we are six children three sisters and three brothers and I am the little of the family, so, I don't know, I have a lot of nephews, nieces, so, I don't know, I miss them so much, because we have I mean--my family, they are not only my family they are also my best friends that I have so I miss my parents my sisters, my brothers, my nephews, I miss everyone, I miss everyone, because I don't know, but, it's Christmas time and in this, in this days in my house, in my family, everybody, everybody gets drunk. Everybody so in the holidays, okay, my sisters, they come to my house, my parents' house, my brothers, and everybody has, you know, a big food for everybody and everybody drink and drink and drink and drink. And so we spend the whole, the whole Christmas eve drinking. So, my mother gets drunk, my father, my everything, everybody, everybody in my house gets drunk everybody (????) we start to sing and to dance and then we start to call neighbors: "Hey! Do you want to come to my house we're having a party!" "Oh yeah sure." and maybe we have 50 people in my house, everybody singing dancing, "Hey you have a bottle of rum?" "Yes of course. Wait a minute, I'll run over to my house. I'll be back." You know so, I miss this because I'm busy I'm going to be alone here in Westminster aahh, and I miss that.
Transcribed by Elizabeth van den Berg