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増田有華ファンが英語学習に悪戦苦闘する日記

Y's Birthday COUNTDOWN 11

repentance when you are sorry for something you have done
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増田有華さん,スポーツ報知登場も,麻里子様のおまけ状態だった。
ちなみに,中身はドラマ『リミット』の番宣だ。

TOEICの9月の公開試験は7月の結果を見て,申し込むことができる。
罰ゲームとして,前日1模試だけで,受験するべきか?9月の残暑怖いしなあ。
日本のTOEICのウェブサイトに千葉県ネタがあった。ここです。

英語リスニング入門(2002年7月17日分Summer Madness)

Listen and Fill In the Blanks

as soon asが書き取れず。

Words and Expressions

of all people/things/places etc used toemphasize that your statement
is true of one particular person, things, or place more than any other 

You know me. 

run into informal to meet someone by chance 

split old-fashioned informal to leave a place quickly

antics behavior that seems strange, funny, silly, or annoying:
We're all growing tired of his childish antics.

pinch to press a part of someone's skin very tightly between your finger and
thumb, especially so that it hurts

oblige to do something that someone has asked you to do

Sounds and Sound Changes

as soon asのくずれ asがほとんど聞こえない。
becauseのくずれ 速い発音では-causeの部分の母音が弱くなり,あいまい母音に
なる傾向がある。
hasn't itのくずれ フレーズ全体が「ハズネ」に近く聞こえる。
イントネーションの「核」と「しっぽ」
イントネーションは,しばしば,文の大事な部分で大きく動く。この部分は
イントネーションの「核」と呼ばれる。文の核としっぽの位置がつかめると,
話し手が何を大事な情報として伝えたがっているのがわかる。

英語5分間トレーニン(2009年7月23日分リスニング力強化ウィーク)

A: What kind of music do you listen to?
B: The classics, mostly.
A: You mean Bach, Beethoven, Schubert?
classic rock.

なぜブラームス(Brahms)でなくて,シューベルトなんだろうか?
こういうやり取りを聞くと,Love Story”by Erich Segalの冒頭部分を思い出します。
手元にあるのは,oxford bookworms library:Stage 3 (1000 headwords)だけど。

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?
You can say that she was beautiful and intelligent. She loved
Mozart and Bach and the Beatles. And me. Once, when she told me that,
I asked her who came first. She answered, smiling,‘Like in the ABC.’
I smiled too. But now I wonder. Was she talking about my first name?
If she was, I came last, behind Mozart. Or did she mean my last name?
I came between Bach and the Beatles. But I still didn't come first.
That worries me terribly now. You see, I always had to be Number One.
Family pride, you see.

‘Love means you never have to say you're sorry.’


I'm reading a very interesting book right now.
It's about the Age of Great Voyages.
The men who crossed the seas in the old days certainly were brave.

When you go to the antique shop, be sure to mention me.
Chris Bowen, the guy who runs it is a friend of mine.
He'll give you a special price.
Whatever you do, don't pay the prices listed on the price tags.
He himself gave me that piece of advice.


実践ビジネス英語(2013年4月4日分The Power of Small Talk)

you name it (they've got it)! spoken used after a list of things
to mean that there are many more you coul mention:
Clothes, books - you name it, they sell it! 

an acquired taste something that people only begin to like after they
have tried it a few times: Whisky is an acquired taste.
acquire a taste for sth to begin to like something:
Yuka had acquired a taste for European beer.

late bloomer A late bloomer is a person whose talents or capabilities are not 
visible to others until later than usual. (from Wikipedia)

no better used to say that something is the best: 
there is no better way/example/place etc
There's no better way of exploring the region.

there you are/there you go used when you think you have proved to someone
that you are telling them is right

get the hang of sth informal to learn how to do something or use something:
It seems difficult at first, but you'll soon get the hang of it.

break the ice informal to make people feel more friendly and willing to talk to 
each other: 
Yuka's arrival broke the ice and people began to talk and laugh.
これは英検準1級必須表現だ。

handy useful:Take your swimming trunks with you - they might come in handy
(=be useful).

成田あゆみ・日比野克哉著『[自由英作文編]英作文のトレーニング』Z会出版,2004年。

引き続き,暗記例文150の中からピックアップして,筆写音読。
大学入試用で例文は携帯ネタが多いように感じるんだよね(きちんと数えていません)。

1. How well should we be able to speak English?

14. There are many issues yet to be resolved.

29. Obtaining information from the Internet is much easier if you can read English.

31. Those who are willing to take up medicine as a profession should not only be 
able to read but also write English well.

34. By increasing globalization, we will have to be able to communicate in English, 
even if we live in Japan.

39. I agree with the idea of making English an official language of Japan.

121. It takes a lot of time and effort to be able to use English fluently.


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