Paraguay 1

Listen to Paraguay 1, a 22-year-old man from Asunción, Paraguay. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 22

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PLACE OF BIRTH: Asunción, Paraguay

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Paraguayan (exact ethnicity unknown)

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EDUCATION: college study

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

At the time of the interview, the subject had lived in Kansas, in the United States, for four years.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

He and each of his brothers attended college in Kansas.  He indicated a resistance to learning English as a teenager but did so because of the necessity of attending college in the United States.  He speaks Spanish and Guarani (a native language of Paraguay) and was studying Italian at the time of the interview.

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I was born in Paraguay, Asuncion; I am 22 years old. I came here four years ago. I decided to came here because of the [indiscernible on recording] in Paraguay and Kansas we pay in-state tuition. It’s [Paraguay] pretty, like, Kansas. It looks like Kansas. Most of the country is, like, flat. There’s a lot of agriculture and many industries. I went to British school in Paraguay, but, um, some students really learn it [English] and some didn’t. I was in the group of the people that didn’t want to learn English. But, um, all my brothers and sisters came here, so I didn’t have any, another chance. Like, my father told me, “OK. All your brothers went to Kansas. You gotta go.” So, I came here and I had to learn it.  We have two languages, one is Spanish and the other is Guarani (sp?), an Indian language. Um, in the country everybody speaks Juarani. There’s a lot of people that doesn’t speak, do not speak Spanish. Sixty percent speak Spanish and there’s, like, a 40 percent that, the 60 percent probably 50, Yeah. Of the 60 percent, 90 percent would speak Spanish and Guarani and the 40 percent speak, uh, just Guarani. The Guarani language I, I don’t speak very much but I understand probably. “Mbaeichapa nde rera?” That’s, um, “What’s your name?” Um, I haven’t speak, like, in four years.  The “Padre Nuestro” (Our Father or Lord’s Prayer): Padre nuestro que estas en el cielo, santficado sea tu nombre, venga a nosotros tu reino, hagase tu voluntad asi en la tierra como en el cielo. Danos hoy nuestro pan de cada dia, perdona nuestras ofensas asi como nosotros perdonamos a los que nos ofenden. No nos dejes caer en tentacion,y libranos del mal, Amen [English: Our Father, in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, Amen.] My father is from Paraguay, and my mother is from Argentina.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Tony Bernal

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