NHKラジオ英会話のディクテーション「時のフロー①」L212 2023/2/14

Roza: ラジオ英会話、ハートでつかめ英語の極意、講師の大西泰斗です。

さぁ今日もしっかり、頑張っていきますよ。

Roza: Hi guys. Akino Roza here. Are you ready for today’s lesson?

Chris: Hi guys. Chris McVay here. Sorry, I’ll just go to the restroom before we start, OK?

Roza: You can.

Chris: I’m just practicing.

Ohnishi: それでは、さっそく始めていきましょう。

Chris: OK guys, are you ready to practice? Today, let’s look at some prepositions like “before, after, until, since” that are used to connect sentences. OK? That’s the key, connecting sentences.

So, here we go.

• I couldn’t move after I had spent five hours planting rice.

OK, so “after” and followed a full sentence, the two sentences are connected using “after”.

Once more,

• I couldn’t move after I had spent five hours planting rice.

Roza: OK, our next example will use “until”.

• I’ll take care of your medaka until you come back.

Do you see the connection there? I’ll take care of your medaka – you come back – and “until” links them.

Let’s try one more time.

• I’ll take care of your medaka until you come back.

Chris: OK, and one more,

• It’s been four years since we last met.

Try that again?

• It’s been four years since we last met.

Great job.

Roza: Excellent work.

Ohnishi: Hey Chris, I’ll give you a hand after I finish this email but I think this email will take me forever.

Chris: That means you don’t really want to help me, right?

Ohnishi: That’s what I thought.

Roza: Don’t warry Chris, I’ll help you out. ちょこっとだけね。

Ohnishi: というわけで、今日はこの辺で。

All: Bye.