Lesson 229 譲歩を表すそのほかの表現

Opening

Roza
▶︎ Hey, everyone. Akino Roza here. Let’s have fun with today’s lesson.
Ready?

David
▶︎ And I’m David Evans. Let’s do our best, OK?

Dialogue

① I remember them from their early days.【 early days の意味 】
👉 early days – 「初期」というわけですね。

② It was more like folk music.【 more like の意味 】
👉 more like 「〜より…のようだ」という表現。よく使われますよ。

Pronunciation Polish

Today’s Sentence：What are you doing here?

David
▶︎ All right, everyone. It’s time for today’s “Pronunciation Polish.”
Let’s check out today’s phrase.
・What are you doing here?
・What are you doing here?

All right.
First let’s start with “what” plus “are.”
That’s the “flap t” sound, yeah.
Here we go.
what are, what are

All right.
The “you” will be nice and short, the schwa sound.
you, you
what are you, what are you

Let’s try the full sentence now.
・What are you doing here?
・What are you doing here?

All right.
Great work.

Ending

Onishi
▶︎ What are you doing here?

David
▶︎ I, I, I work here…

Onishi
▶︎ What are you doing here?

David
▶︎ Oh, I see. Are you just practicing?

Onishi
▶︎ Oh, yeah.

David
▶︎ OK.

Roza
▶︎ Practice is important.

Words and Phrases

① flap t sound
👉アメリカ英語特有の発音表現。[t] や [d] の音が母音に挟まれた際、舌先で上アゴを軽くハタっと
弾く「ラ行」や「柔らかいd」のような音に変化するものです。water が「ワーラー」のように聞こえる現象。

これで、Lesson 229 は終了。