Interview Reflection Essay

Reflection

The interview process was not entirely new to me in some senses but there were still many hurdles to overcome. We had an interview project for Japanese last semester in which I had to interview my other grandma about her fathers experience in war. The grandmother I interviewed for this project lives in Ewa beach however, so getting to her house would be much more difficult. We did the interview via face time. We then had to figure out a way to record the actual interview. I ended up recording my computer screen with my mother 's android phone, which lead to further complications. Since we were staying at my auntie 's house because her husband was on a trip, we had no access to a Microsoft computer. Since android phones can 't directly import to mac computers, we had no way to get the twenty-minute video file on to my computer. I did my transcription from her …show more content…
She speaks with a slightly pidginized accent, which tells us she was definitely raised in Hawaii. Although he doesn 't make an appearance in the interview, my grandfather, raised on the mainland, has perfect English. My grandmother had a lot of thinking words, which she held out for a long time. This shows pretty clearly that she was thinking, remembering, and organizing things she wanted to say. This also shows possible nervousness. She was pretty uncomfortable about being on camera, which no doubt made her speaking more awkward and uncomfortable. Since she was holding her ipad, she was not free to gesture, which as we learned can make people incredibly uncomfortable while speaking. In the interview her sentence intonation was all over the place. What this interview really made apparent to me, was just how much of an impact lack of comfort can have on speaking, the lack of comfort coming from being on camera, and not being able to gesture. She speaks very fluently in person with minimal pauses and very consistently toned