NHKラジオ英会話のディクテーション「発言タイプ：知識③･･･know以外尾動詞を使った”知っている”」L138 2023/10/25

Ohnishi: 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。

♪リンダリンダー・・・リンダと言えば、山本

Roza: リンダ！

Ohnishi: 食い気味で来ましたね。

Roza: Hey everyone. This is Akino Roza.

David: And I’m Dad Evans. OK, you two, let’s jump in.

Ohnishi: それでは、さっそく始めましょう。

Roza: OK everyone. It’s time to practice.

David: Let’s get to it. Here is our first.

• I’ve heard that you like playing video games.
• I hear that you like playing video games.

Roza: Let’s continue.

• I heard about Dan’s new business.
• I heard about Dan’s new idea.
• I heard about Dan’s new venture.

And one more.

• I’ve never heard of such a thing.

David: All right. Our next two are “can” and “can’t”. For “can” sentences, try to get thorough to the verb as quickly as possible, but “can’t” make it nice and staccato, so you can tell the difference between the two.

• I can tell the difference.

Feel that? instead of “I can”, it’s “I can”, “I can”, just like that. Let’s try that one more time.

• I can tell the difference.

Now, let’s try “can’t”.

• I can’t tell the difference.

Roza: OK, let’s practice our last few.

• Rumor has it that we’re getting downsized.
• It is rumored that we’re getting downsized.
• Word on the street is we’re getting downsized.

Great job, guys.

David: Excellent.

Ohnishi: Hey David, I hear that you like playing video games. Is that true?

David: Who told you? Ah man, I was trying so hard to keep that a secret. Wow!

Ohnishi: How did you get into that?

Roza: Sensei, you are asking a lot of questions today.

Ohnishi: Ah, I’m just practicing.

David: Ah, thank goodness.

Ohnishi: というわけで、今日はこの辺で。

All: Bye.