Japan 5

Listen to Japan 5, a 20-year-old woman from Shiki, Japan (part of Tokyo metro area). Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 20

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1983

PLACE OF BIRTH: Shiki, Japan (part of Tokyo metro area)

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Japanese

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: Subject was studying theatre in college at the time of this interview.

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

Subject has lived in both Switzerland and the United States.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Paul Meier

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 13/11/2003

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I was born * in one of the city nearby Tokyo. * I was born* and I was raised in the same city until 15. When I was a kid I mostly, * I didn’t take any kind of * professional course for, * for speaking but * I don’t know why but I really like playing with monologue stuff and * after I graduated from junior high school I went to the*, the Japanese high school in Switzerland in there, there were mostly Japanese students around there so I * was like half speaking English half speaking Japanese. Um * I took the, I was in the program for going to the university of outside of Japan, so mostly during the day I was dealing with the, * the like, the English literature, so * after that * I came to Kansas, so I took the, * yeah, I took some English classes, and yeah they were really difficult, yeah [laughs]. And * I was, when I came here, * when, yeah, um the, how can I say when I came to the Theatre department the. * I thought that English is really difficult plus it’s not like yeah. it’s * of course I was understanding but, using * and using English as yeah as a part of the character in the acting class. Yeah. [Subject speaks in Japanese.] * – pause

TRANSCRIBED BY: Patrick Craft

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 03/2005

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

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