遠山顕の英会話楽習 Monday, March 18
Very musical.
Yeah.
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Did you hear the latest?
No. What is it?
Gakusha and Shusha are going to merge.
Really? I think they're jumping the gun.
Hmm... maybe… But it's going to be a huge cooperation.
Hmm.
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Say It!
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Carolyn, are you ready, five times in one breath?
Did you hear the latest?
No.
I thought Jeff was doing it.
No, not me.
Oh.
You heard it wrong.
Hmm... maybe… All right.
Did you hear the latest?
The best performance ever.
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Write It!
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★ リリーとマックという2羽の鳥
Well, there are two ways we can say this. The first way is the opposite order of what we saw in the Japanese. And it's "two birds, Lily and Mack." It's pretty natural something, I think.
OK.
The second way follows the Japanese order, and is, "Lily and Mack, two birds." But that doesn't sound really natural, does it? It's kinds of sudden sounding.
Uh-huh.
So I wouldn't recommend that version, I would say instead "Lily and Mack who are two birds."
★ 婚約したばかりです
Well, there's also two ways of saying this. And since we're talking about Lily and Mack, we just used "they." "They just got engaged." That's from the dialog.
Uh-huh.
And the other way of saying it is, "They are newly engaged." And that's from the title.
★ ゴシップ好きの鳥は……と考えています
Well, in English we'd use the word "gossipy."
The adjective, gossipy. So it'll be "a gossipy bird."
★ How about 考えています is thinking でしょうか？
In English, we would put this verb in the present tense. So we wouldn’t say "a gossipy bird is thinking." It would be more natural to say "a gossipy bird thinks."
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Two birds, Lily and Mack, just got engaged. A gossipy bird thinks they’re jumping the gun because Lily is very fickle and she’ll migrate south.
Lily and Mack, who are two birds, are newly engaged. A gossipy bird thinks that they’re jumping the gun because Lily is very fickle and she’ll migrate south.
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In Another Situation!
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So Carolyn, what's another situation going to be like this time?
Well, Ken, now, they sing their lines to the tune of "Happy Birthday to You."
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Hey, did you hear the latest?
What?
Those two songbirds over there, Lily and Mack, just got engaged.
How nice! They're a lovely couple!
I think they're jumping the gun.
Why do you say that?
Lily is very fickle.
That's a cheap shot.
Just wait and see. She'll migrate south and leave him high and dry.
Do you really think so?
I don't know. Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be?
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Very nice.
Wow!
Yeah.
Well, keep on smiling.
Wait, wait.
Hey, Ken. I think you're jumping the gun here.
Let me say my line first.
Okay.
Keep listening.
Keep practicing.
And keep on smiling.
Bye!
That's better.
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遠山顕の英会話楽習 Tuesday, March 19
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You just hit a homerun.
Your new fence will cost you pretty much.
How much?
I'll send you an estimate.
Can you give me a ballpark figure?
I can. But you are not gonna like it.
Come on. Just give it to me straight.
Okay. Here goes.
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Say It!
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Jeff-san...
Uh-huh.
Ten times in one breath.
That many?
Yeah.
It's not that many.
No, it's not. You're right, Carolyn.
Let's go.
That many?
Oh, you did it.
That was well done.
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Write It!
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★ 彼女はすることにします
We are going to use a very useful word.
Okay.
Decide, decides. "Decides to 何々." "She decides to 何々."
★ イタリア料理を作る代わりに
Well, the form we will use here is "instead of."
イタリア料理を作るのは In stead of make some Italian dishes でしょうか？
Well, I hate to break it to you, but we wouldn't use the verb form "make" here. We actually want to add "i-n-g." So it's going to be "making." So the whole phrase will be "instead of making some Italian dishes."
The whole thing becomes a noun phrase here.
Yes.
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Megan asks Dylan how many people are coming to the party. Dylan gives her a ballpark figure and she decides to order pizza instead of making some Italian dishes.
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In Another Situation!
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So Jeff...
Uh-huh.
What's another situation going to be like?
Why! I wish this was me. They are trillionaires.
We all are, aren't we?
In spirit.
Okay, well put.
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How many people are coming to the party, Dylan?
Gee, I don't know, Megan.
Give me a ballpark figure.
I'd say two thousand or twenty five hundred?
That many?
Maybe three thousand?
At this stage of the game, we should just have some chefs over.
I think you need a jumbo jet for all the chef for the party.
Indeed. Well, money is no object. Hire three thousand taxies, reserve three thousand hotel rooms, and don't forget to get everyone a radio to listen to Eikaiwa Gakushu.
You read my mind.
Hmm...
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Well, they need radios for those trillionaires.
Of course.
It's gonna be very expensive having that kind of a huge party.
Yes, but if you were trillionaires, money is no object.
Really? How much do you think it would be?
Give me a ballpark figure?
Yeah.
Give me a ballpark figure… No idea.
Well that's about it for today. That's a huge question. To be answered a little later. So until next time.
Keep listening.
Keep practicing.
And keep on smiling.
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遠山顕の英会話楽習 Wednesday March 20
★ What is this commercial about?
Hardware... hard question... Let's get back to that hard question, Carolyn.
All righty. What is this commercial about?
Jeff, what is this about?
Parkview hardware store is having a spring sale.
I need a store like this for my garden.
Oh, yeah?
Uh-huh
What do you need?
Well, clover is basically taking over.
Oh.
And I need to take that out.
When you say you're in clover, you're rich. You're well-off.
Well, that's the idiom, but in this case, no. It just means weeds.
Oh, I see.
Yeah, usually hardware stores have almost all of the things you need for the "do it yourself."
Yes.
Absolutely.
Whatever.
One-stop shopping, right?
Uh-huh.
★ Question 2
How much are garden gloves?
Much, much more.
Sounds like my kind of place.
All right. Back to the question.
How much are garden gloves?
Carolyn, how much?
Pretty reasonable, I think, 15.99.
That's not so bad.
No, no. There's lots of good prices, actually.
Uh-huh.
Say, they also have lawn-mowers.
Oh, yes.
How much for the lawn-mowers?
Gas ones are 299.19.
Oooh!
Great.
There are tillers too, right?
They’re also $300.
Oh, that's right. But looks like you can rent one, for $40 an hour.
That's something new.
Yeah.
Oh, wow!
So, if you bought one, well, let's see. If you only gonna use it for one day or two days, that would probably be a pretty good deal, right.
Yeah, definitely. Maybe you can rent one.
Yeah, well, I don't have any place to till. I'm just trying to get rid of my clover. That's all.
Wheelbarrows.
Yeah, $60.15.
★ Question 3
Where are the wheelbarrows?
Okay, so back to the question.
Sure.
Where are the wheelbarrows?
Jeff, did you happen to catch the right answer?
I did.
Okay, let's hear it.
On aisle 13.
On aisle 13.
Yeah, we don't use "in," you know, it’s on aisle 13.
Okay.
It's like a street, right?
Oh, yeah.
That's right.
On the street.
That's a great way to look at it. I've never looked at it that way before. Wait a minute. It's interesting, yeah.
Yeah.
And they have much, much more.
Okay. Like?
Well, steel shovels.
Those are great, $23.30, not bad.
Yeah.
You know, I have an ax to grind.
What?
Basically I don’t have ax to grind. That’s the ax to grind.
Okay, well, congratulations. You did well.
I needed ax to grind. Yeah.
(ax to grind = 自分で不満に思っていることがある、ひそかに個人的・利己的な目的を抱いている, 胸に一物あるto have a strong personal opinion about something that you want people to accept and that is the reason why you do something)
That kind of ax is not at a hardware store, right?
No. But actually I do need an ax.
Oh, you do?
I wonder how much they are.
Well, do they have it? Do they sell that?
I don't know they have much, much more.
It doesn’t say it. Yeah, so it's probably in the much, much more …
category.
Yeah.
