NHKラジオ英会話のディクテーション「just」L174 2025/12/18

Onishi: Hey guys, I always want to put as much humor as possible into this program.

Roza: Well, Sensei, you are failing.

David: No, no, no. You got it all wrong. He's putting all he has.

Onishi: 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: Akino Roza here.

David: I'm David Evans.

Onishi: さぁそれでは、さっそくはじめていきましょう。

• They've just arrived.
• That's just what I wanted to hear from you.
• His performance was just amazing.
• She's just a kid.

Roza: You are amazing.

Hi, for the match with you and Ben, can you just go easy on a bit? You know, he is just a beginner. He has just started last year.

Roza: All right guys. It's time to practice our not-beginner pronunciation. Here we go. Today's sentence is "That's just what I wanted to hear from you." ...

There is quite a few points we'll cover in today's sentence, so let's get into it.

Repeat after me. what I ... the /t/ turns into a /d/, what I.

wanted to, it's the connected sound of /d/ and /t/. wanted to.

Now, let's go to from. It's the /ə/ sound. from ... Great.

And, let's do the pronunciation of just ... That's just, That's just what I wanted to, hear from you.

All right, great. Let's put it all together. Ready? Let's go.

• That's just what I wanted to hear from you.

One more time.

• That's just what I wanted to hear from you.

And one last time, closer to native speaker speed.

• That's just what I wanted to hear from you.

Excellent work. How did you do?

Onishi: さぁ今日学習した、このjust、もうほとんど日本語にもなっていますから、中には英語としては、ちょっとおかしいものも混ざっていそうですよね。

David: Oh, yeah. In sometimes, in Japanese I hear "just fit", but in English, we say "It fits just right" or "It's a perfect fit".

Roza: That's right. So, be sure to separate the use of "just" in 和製英語 and English as different things in your head.

Onishi: その通りですね。まぁ日本語としてお使いになる分には、まったく構わないとは思いますよ。というわけで、今日はこの辺で。

All: Bye.