Belgium 2

Listen to Belgium 2, a 45-year-old woman from Flanders, in the north of Belgium. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 45

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1955

PLACE OF BIRTH: Holland (The Netherlands), but raised in Flanders

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

OCCUPATION: academic in languages

EDUCATION: university, post graduate

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

She moved to Flanders, Belgium, when she was 11. She lived in Spain for a year and a half. She had just started studying at UCD Dublin at the time of this recording.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

She studied Germanic languages at the University of Leuven, and was a German major and English minor. She learned most of her English pronunciation in the language lab at her university. She taught English in Spain. It’s important to note that her time in the Netherlands and the Flanders area of Belgium would have exposed her to slightly more Dutch than French.

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RECORDED BY: Floortje Nijssen

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 05/2000

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