Translanguage English Database - TED - Speaker Demographics
Paper No. (paper, session #) Available papers Name Sex Date of birth Place of birth (city and country) At present, what do you consider to be your primary language? Has this always been the case? Which language do you consider to be your second language, if any? Do you consider yourself a bilingual? If yes, in which languages? Which language do you use more frequently at home? Which language do you use more frequently at work? Do you speak any other languages? At which age did you start to learn English? Where and how have you learnt English? Mother's native language Father's native language Highest education level Language (or languages) of education (number of years studied) List any countries you have lived in for periods longer than 1 year
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Asanuma, Naomi Female 20 March 1968 Tokyo in Japan Japanese --- English English Japanese Japanese No When I was eleven years old. High School English grammar, predicate, vocabulary and reading. Recently listens to English tapes and hasTOEIC tests. Japanese Japanese BA 10 None
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Atungsir, Dr. Samuel A. Male 20 Sept. 1964 Bamenda, Cameroon English No Ngemba (my original mother tongue) Multi-lingual - English, Ngemba, French, Limbum, Pidgin Ngemba English French, Limbum, Pidgin 5 School teaching in Cameroon from age 5 to 20, lived in UK since. Ngemba Ngemba --- English - all my live (except first 5 years) French - 15 years (from age 5 to 20 at school in Cameroon) Cameroon, UK.
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Bonneau-Maynard, Helene Female 29 Nov. 1962 Pithiviers FRANCE French Yes. it has always been the case. If I must consider that I have a second language I would say that it is English--- No I am not bilingual French at home French at work I speak a little bit German 11 years old. French French --- --- --- None
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Carlson, Rolf Male 12 May 1945 Gavle, Sweden Swedish yes English No Swedish and English Swedish German 12 Sweden Swedish Swedish --- German, French 5 years US totally about 3 years
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Clementino, Davide Male 22 Apr 1963 Torino (Italy) Italian. Yes. None. No. Italian. Italian. Yes, English. 11. At the ordinary schools and then English courses managed by my company. I've got an intermediate level. Italian. Italian. University degree. English (8 years). None
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Collier, Rene Male 21 March 1945 Brussels, Belgium Dutch (Flemish) Yes French not really bilingual anymore Dutch Dutch French, English, German 14 Secondary school, classical tuition method (1 hour of English per week for 3 years); later also at the University, part of curriculum 'Germanic Philology' Flemish dialect Flemish (Brussels) dialect Ph.D. Dutch for 16 years USA Netherlands
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Collingham, Russell J. Male 20 May 1967 Nottingham, England English Yes German No English English --- --- --- English English PhD English, 14 None
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Degryse, Daniel Male 30 July 1947 LILLE France French Yes - - French French English, German 12 school French French Ph.D. English 10 years, German 4 years -
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Di Carlo, Andrea Male 26 May 1961 Paris, France Italian Yes French Yes, Italian and French Italian Italian yes 20 Course of Scientific English at Physics Institute of Rome University Italian Italian --- English, 2 years France
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Duermael, Fabrice Male 7 June 1969 Houilles (78) - France French yes English No French French German 10 years old French form 6 French French --- Greman 5-7 years, Arabian 1 year None
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Dutoit, Thierry Male 7 March 1966 Beloeil, Belgium French Yes English Yes, to some extent. French-English French French not really. Started at 12. I have learnt English at school, and improved it by listening=20 to the radio, watching television and reading books in English. French French PhD English (6 years), Dutch (4 years), Latin (6 years) (just in case this would be useful) None
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Dybkjaer, Laila Female 12 January 1959 Sillerslev, Denmark Danish Yes English and German No Danish Danish A little bit French and Italian At the age of 11 At school and by using the language. Most literature during my study (I am a computer scientist) at the university was in English and I wrote more reports in English. Danish Danish --- 1/2-1 year Denmark
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Dymarski, Przemyslaw Male 24 April 1951 Wroclaw, Poland Polish Yes None No Polish Polish French, English, Russian At the age of 19 During my studies at the Technical University of Wroclaw Polish Polish PhD English (5) Russian (6) German (4) French (3) France (several short periods, but about 1 year in total)
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Eckert, Wieland Male 05 Jul 1964 Bad Neustadt/Saale, Germany German yes English No German German No (unfortunately not ...) 13 School (poor results), tech. reports (reading), intl. technical meetings (talking) German German --- Latin (6), English (4) NIL
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Gael, Richard Male 14 June 1965 Draveil (France) French Yes English No French French Yes (notion of german, spanish.... and a few swedish) age of 3 USA, England, Ireland and at school French French --- English 6 years German 7 years Spanish 1 year Swedish 6 months USA 2 years (between the age of 3 and 5) SWEDEN 1/2 year (at the age of 25)
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Gauvain, Jean-Luc S. Male 31 August 1956 Annonay, France French yes English no English French, English no 14, but not seriously until 25 reading + conversation courses, but I really learned to speak during an 18 month sabbatical in the U.S. French French PhD German (9yrs - a few hours per week), English (2 yrs, 1-2 hours per week) U.S.
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Gerbino, Elisabetta Female 31 March 1965 TORINO ITALY ITALIAN yes ENGLISH no ITALIAN ITALIAN no 14 secondary school ITALIAN ITALIAN --- ENGLISH 8 years ---
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Gong, Y. Male 14 June 1956 Nanjing, China Chinese Yes French Chinese/french Chinese French Yes 13 School, courses Chinese Chinese PhD Chinese (10)/ French (5) China, France
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Granstrom, Bjorn Male 4 Feb 1946 STOCKHOLM, Sweden Swedish Yes English No Swedish Swedish very little 11 In school in Sweden and from later practice Swedish Swedish --- English 8years, German 4 years, French 2 years All before university, all as a minor part of the curriculum In U.S.A. for just more than a year.
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Heisterkamp, Paul Male 26 April 1957 Kirchhellen (now Bottrop), Germany German --- English Yes (Low German) German German French, Dutch, Italian Started English age 10 School --- --- --- --- ---
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Ishikawa, Yasushi Male 18 Feb 1958 Tokyo, Japan Japanese yes. None. no. Japanese Japanese English 12 years old. High school class. Japanese. Japanese. --- 8 years. None
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MacDermid, Dr Catriona Female 8 Dec 1960 Leicester, UK English yes, always French not any more (rusty) English Swedish (since May'94) Swedish, Spanish English infancy at home, from parents English English Education PhD (doctorate) educated in English; studied French (11 years), Spanish (4 years) ---
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Morin, Philippe Male 3 Oct 1963 Vierzon (FRANCE) French Yes English --- English English No 14 Public School (from 14 to 18 years old) in France In the US for two years French French --- English (5 years), German (7 years) USA
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Mueller, Christel Female 29 Nov 1949 Wismar, Germany German Yes Russian No German German English 13 years 5 years at school German German Diploma in Communication Engineering --- Russia - 5 years
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Poirier, Franck Male 4 July 1958 Paris - France French Yes Comprehension of written English, to a lesser degree the spoken word. No French French No 12 School French French PhD English - 6 years Cote d'Ivoire (pays francophone)
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Sasaki, Taro Male 17 March 1969 Tochigi, JAPAN Japanese. Yes. English. No. Japanese. Japanese. No. 12 years old. Junior high school, high school and college. Japanese Japanese --- 8 years ---
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Simpson, Andrew Male 13 Feb 1965 Southampton, Britain English Yes --- No English English Italian Birth Home, School, etc English English Postgraduate English Italy
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Takagi, Tohru Male 28 July 1956 Tokyo, Japan Japanese Yes English --- --- --- No 12 years old Middle and High school, 1st and 2nd years of University, conversation school Japanese Japanese MA English (reading and writing: 8 years, hearing and speaking: 2 years) None
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Traber, Christof Male 13 April 1961 St-Gall, Switzerland German (Swiss German dialect) Yes None No --- --- English, French, Italian (Quality in this order) 15 Regular course in "middle school" (ecole cantonale, gymnase; corresponds to high school/college; age 15 to 20) German (Swiss German dialect) German (Swiss German dialect) University German (Standard German) (18 years) None
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Van Coile, Bert Male 18 Oct. 1958 Kortrijk, Belgium Dutch yes English no Dutch Dutch French 14 secondary school (14-18 year) Dutch Dutch --- English (5 years), French (8 years), German (4 years) ---
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Warren, Paul Male 22 March 1958 Portsmouth, England English Yes German No English English Some French 0 years as native speaker English English --- German (9 years) French (7 years) ---
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Wuppermann, Friedhelm Male 3 November 1964 52048 Juelich, Germany German Yes Dutch and English in Dutch German Dutch and English No 13 at school German German University German The Netherlands