Russia 10

Listen to Russia 10, a 24-year-old woman from Sochi, Russia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 24

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

PLACE OF BIRTH: former Soviet Republic of Abkhazia

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Russian/white

OCCUPATION: university English teacher

EDUCATION: university degree

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

The subject was born in the Soviet Republic of Abkhazia, and then the family moved to Sochi, Russia, on the Black Sea.  She moved in 2006 to work in Moscow.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

Subject says, “I have never been abroad, so my accent is influenced only by Russian.”

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RECORDED BY: Subject

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 09/03/2008

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

So, some words about myself: I was born in the end of 1983 on the Black Sea coast of Russia. I was born in the former Soviet Republic of Abkhazia, and then my family moved on Sochi. So I love sea, especially the Black Sea. In 2006, I graduated from the Russian State Social University, so it’s a branch of this university in Sochi; I was studying on the faculty of foreign languages, and my first language is English and German is the second one. Then in September 2006, I left for Moscow and began to work in the same Russian State Social University in Moscow. Now I am working as a teacher of English on the chair of foreign languages for non-language specialties. But my first goal to leave for Moscow was the post-graduate studies, because there were no such in my Sochi branch. And in 2007, [sms ringtone] … Sorry! … I entered the post-graduate studies, and now I am writing research work on translation. I have always been interested in phonetics. So I have the pronunciation dictionary by J.C. Wells; I think there’s no phonetician like him; he is the greatest. And when I was a first- and second-year student, I discovered some phonetic phenomena myself, and only after some period I found out that they had already been discovered and described by some very famous phoneticians.

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