Peru One - Text
Male, born mid 70's and raised in Peru (mostly in Lima), the son of an architect. Lived for several years in various parts of the USA, before being recorded by Paul Meier at the University of Kansas in 1999. Accent very mild and pleasant.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
Actually, what the people say is that (uh) the Peruvian Spanish (uh) is the most (uh) clean. We don’ have such a heavy accent like the (uh)-- the (uh)-- the accent from (uh) Spanish in Cuba, or, let’s say, (oh) Honduras, Nicaragua, or even in (uh) Argentina, y’ know, which is the closest to Peru. It’s very clean. It’s very-- the pa-- the pace of it is very nice. It’s very melodical. So, many people-- many Eng-- actually, (uh) Americans that are-- are learning Spanish, they fin’ (uh) the Peruvian Spanish very-- very nice the first time. I was born in (uh) Lima, and then (uh) when I was five years ol’ I moved to the Trujillo. An’ then I lived there for like ten other years, I guess. Lima-- like my city’s the third largest city, where I live now, and that one has about a million people. I got two (j)younger sisters. (Eh) One is (uh) 22, an’ the other one is 19. Well, my father is-- he’s (uh) retired.
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY JACQUELINE BAKER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR TRANSCRIPTIONS, July 25, 2008