Saudi Arabia Two - Text
Subject is a male college student, 25 years old, born 1981 and raised in Najran, Saudi Arabia. Currently learning English in Ohio - Started 2 months ago. Has Diploma in Computer Engineering. Recorded in Ohio on 02/24/06 by D'Arcy Smith. Subject talks about missing his sister, missing his home and what it is like to be in America.
Running time 00:05:55
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
I like, uh, life here in, uh, America, but, uh, sometime I miss my, uh…uh, my friend, especially my small sister because, uh…uh…uh…,she’s very shy, when, uh, when, uh, she see me. She can’t talk to me. Uh, I know I am, uh…um, her brother-brother, but she can’t talk to me. Uh, I didn’t know all but, I, uh, I put her picture in, uh, all my room. Uh, I can’t, uh…uh, I can’t, uh, wait fo-, to, uh, see her again. But, uh, I’m trying to, uh, do anything for-for-forget, uh, missing her. Uh, sometime I, uh…uh, I going to, uh, to my friend apartment, uh, for play or for, uh, for talking, for anything. Uh, about sitting he-, studying here, I think it’s-it’s nice, but, uh, there is uh…uh, a m--, a long, a lot of homework. It’s. . .when-when y-you know you have a lo--, a lot of homework, you can’t study. You can’t, uh, just. . .I feel I am here just for doing, uh, my homework, not for studying.