Argentina Two - Text
Female, born 1967 and raised in Cordoba and Jujuy in Northwest Argenina. She is a trained language teacher and teaches both Spanish and English as a Second Language. On this recording she speaks a prayer in her native Spanish in addition to Comma Gets a Cure and some unscripted speech about her life.
At the end of the recording, the subject speaks the following prayer in Spanish. "Dios te salve, Maria, llena eres de gracia. El Senor(*)Êes contigo. Bendita tu eres entre todas las mujeres y bendito es el fruto de tu vientre, Jesus. Santa Maria, Madre de Dios, ruega por nosotros pecadores, ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte." (*) this word takes a palatal nasal consonant, which is written with a ~ above the n. This computer does not have the function, so I could not spell it right. Recorded and edited 05.03.01 by Paul Meier. Running time: 00:05:19
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
(* = vocal pause)
Wel... I was born in Argentina in the central province of Cordoba, that is very close to Buenos Aires. It's a mediterranean place because it is surrounded by land. *And I lived there until I was *two or three years old, then my family and I moved to the northwest region of Argentina. And uh. well we've been living si. their since I was four years old, I guess. Um. The accents are really very different; I mean the accents in. the Argentine accents in these regions because in Cordoba the influence. the immigrant influence of Italians and people from Spain is really very strong. And on the other hand on the northwest region, where we live now, the influence is from the native. *indigenous people from Bolivia and also, from the people of Jujuy. So. um. the accents are really very, very distinctive. So I was raised in Jujuy and have lived there since that time. I attended primary and secondary school there and when I was *seven years old I started taking some English lessons. Just by. for fun because it was a group of neighbors, all little kids and there was someone that was retired and she wanted to teach English. And so we went there. And uh. since then I've been *starting to learn English. Of course that was really very informal and very, very. for fun, that's how I say it. Um. Later on we. I started in a private school, that's very popular in Argentina, having private schools for English where you ha. you take intensive lessons of English. And uh. I think, yeah, by sixteen, seven. sixteen years old, I got my royal certificate *diploma from Cambridge, but England. And uh. well, and then I took. I started my college studies uh. as a teacher of English. So I took a BAE as a teacher of English. And well, I think I've. I've been speaking English for more than twenty years now.[Subject concludes with a prayer in Spanish]
Transcribed by Darren Maloney, March, 2005