NHKラジオ英会話のディクテーション「入手を表す動詞⑩ ー gain、acquire、obtain」L116 2025/9/22

Onishi: The success of the show is due to the people behind the scenes. Don't you think so, Roza?

Roza: You are welcome.

David: Roza, we are not behind the scenes, we are behind the mic.

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: 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。

• I'm gaining more and more confidence.
• You've acquired a lot of skills.
• Who can help me obtain a US visa?

Roza: Fantastic.

Recently, AI is gaining far support, and is acquiring new ability anytime. Only one concern I have is how the AI obtains the information. I'm a bit worried about the data privacy.

Roza: All right guys, you've acquired enough practice to go smoothly through this pronunciation polish corner. Are you ready? Today's sentence is "You've acquired a lot of skills" ...

We'll be focusing on linking, the /t/ sound and the sound /sk/ in skills. Let's start with that one, OK? repeat after me. skills ... one more time, skills.

All right, now let's go to the linking, you've acquired ... a lot of, hear that /t/sound? a lot of, let's combine, a lot of skills ...

Great, ready to do it all together? Let's go.

• You've acquired a lot of skills.

Faster now.

• You've acquired a lot of skills.

Excellent. If you had a little trouble with this, don't worry. I don't worry about your progress any bit.

Onishi: David is an acquired taste, right, Roza?

David: Ah yeah, I mean even I'll admit, I take a little getting used to.

Onishi: なるほど、知れば知るほどいい人に感じられる、acquired taste、というわけですね。というわけで、今日はこの辺で。

All: Bye.