NHKラジオ英会話のディクテーション「前置詞 by④ ー そのほかの使い方」L29 2025/5/15

Onishi: Hey Roza, how is you uncle today?

Roza: Oh, you know my uncle?

Onishi: Ah, sorry, ancle.

Roza: My ancle is doing just fine. Thank you.

Onishi: Hey David, can you pronounce uncle and ancle?

David: Oh, yeah, yeah, no problem. Ah, uncle is your relative, and ancle is next between your leg and your foot.

Onishi: というわけですね。

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。

Roza: Hey everyone. This is Akino Roza.

David: And I’m David Evans.

Onishi: それでは、さっそく始めていきましょう。

• Let’s master English step by step.
• We worked side by side to make it happen.
• I’ll stand by you no matter what.

Roza: Excellent.

Is this the first day for you? It’s OK. Take your pace. It’s OK to do step by step. I’ll work side by side. (時間切れ)

David: All right everyone, great work so far, and here we are finally at pronunciation polish. Let’s take a look at today’s sentence. “It’s getting better little by little” …

All right, today is a fun one. See, I speak American English and in American English, this t in the middle of a word like getting or better or little, we change this into a d-sound to make it smooth and easier to say, so let’s fucus on each of these examples, master them and practice together. Here we go.

getting … all right good work, now better … very nice, next up is little … it’s a little tough with that l-sound but do your best, little, all right, now let’s put these together. getting better … little by little … excellent, all right, now put it all together,

• It’s getting better little by little.

Oh, fantastic, and so are you.

Onishi: I’ll stand by you no matter what.

David: Ah, Sensei, thank you so much. That means so much to me.

Onishi: Oh, what are you talking about? I’m just practicing.

David: Ah, not again.

Roza: Ah, Sensei, your “I’m practicing”s are getting more difficult to catch little by little.

Onishi: All right, little by little. みなさん、発音しっかりと練習してくださいね。というわけで、今日はこの辺で。

All: Bye.