NHKラジオ英会話のディクテーション「停止を表す動詞 ② ー finish、quit、give up」L87 2025/8/5

Onishi: Never give up. 英語学習者、すべてこの精神でいきたいですね。

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: There is no finish line on your learning journey. Akino Roza here.

David: And I'm David Evans. That's right, keep going, one small hurdle at the time.

Onishi: それでは、さっそく始めていきましょう。

• I'm afraid she has decided to quit.
• I gave up waiting for the bus and walked.
• I finished smoking.
• I quit smoking.
• I gave up smoking.

David: Good work.

I finished cleaning your watch, but honestly, I think it's better to change this to new one. I have tried to do my best, but I don't have appropriate tools. I gave up repairing this.

David: OK, don't give up just yet. We are not finished, we still have to polish our pronunciation, so let's dive right in. Here is today's phrase. "It was hard to finish that movie" ...

All right, there are three main points we'll focus on today. First is It at the start. Let's listen to the sound, OK? It ... the t at the end has disappeared, it's nice and short. Let's add was for some extra practice. It was ...

Very nice. Next, we have hard to. The d at the end will disappear, and will join the r and t sounds together, hard to ...

All right, last up is that. The t at the end will disappear, so that ... that movie ...

All right, let's make some chunks and build up. It was hard to ...

• It was hard to finish that movie.

All right, I hope it wasn't hard to finish today's pronunciation polish. Great work.

Onishi: Hey guys, honestly, I think it's time to end the show.

David: End the show, end the show, ah you mean today's show?

Onishi: Ah, yeah, today's show.

Roza: Of course, you would never mean to quit the show, right?

Onishi: No, not at all. これからも続きますよ。というわけで、今日はこの辺で。

All: Bye.