A double culture

First Listening

Identify the speakers

Number of speakers	Sex	Age
1	female	young

Identify the subject

Life in the Philippines and San Francisco for a Filipino

Second Listening

Pick out the key elements for the first two columns (people and places).

People	Places
girl speaker American father Filipino mother nanny girl bilingual people girl Filipino teachers	at home Philippines to States San Francisco suburb + Daily City = Filipino District middle and high school

Third Listening

Pay attention to the details about activities, actions and time (dates/ age)

Activities/ Actions	Time (dates/ age)
spoke English lived spoke Tagalog moved Filipino stores, restaurants speak Filipino eat same food see F. faces went to subject = Filipino heritage / history + subjects in Tagolog	when young at early age at 8

Summary

A girl born to an American father and Filipino mother talks about her early life in the Philippines and then in the States. She lived in the Philippines until she was 8 and although her parents spoke English at home, she learnt to speak the local language Tagalog with her nanny. In the States they settled in a Filipino District of San Francisco: Daily City. It_s like living in the Philippines with the same stores, restaurants, food and language. At school the girl even had Filipino teachers and had classes about Filipino history and even lessons in Tagalog.

Script

So I was born in the Philippines to an American father, but my mother was Filipino. So at home we spoke English, but since I lived in the Philippines when I was young, I had a nanny and she spoke to me in Tagalog which is the language of the Philippines, and of course I was bilingual already at a very early age. And then at 8, we moved to the States to a suburb of San Francisco called Daily City. If you look on the map of outer, you know, greater SFO in the Bay area, there is a town called Daily City and it_s a very large Filipino community there, in fact they have Filipino stores, Filipino restaurants, people speak Filipino to each other and you don_t really feel like you_ve left the Philippines, because you eat the same food, you see the same Filipino faces all over. I went to middle school and high school there, and we had a couple of Filipino teachers, and we even had a subject called Filipino heritage, or Filipino history, I don_t remember, and there were even some subjects in Tagalog, in the language.