NHKラジオ英会話のディクテーション「言葉で人を動かす動詞① ー ask」L46 2025/11/10

Onishi: Hey, this is exactly what I always think in a french restaurant. I wish I had a pair of chopsticks.

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: Me too, regardless if it's a french restaurant or any other restaurant. I have to have chopsticks for my salad.

David: You know, I hate to admit it but when I'm back home in America, I still look around chopsticks. ??? They're really useful.

Roza: This is Akino Roza.

David: And I'm David Evans.

Onishi: それでは、今週もがんばっていきましょう。

• He asked me where his mother was.
• He asked me to stay.
• They asked us some tough questions.
• I asked the boss for permission to take a day off.

David: Great job.

Hey, can I ask you a favor? My son was asking for help his math homework, but it was difficult even for me. I'd like to ask you to look into it.

Roza: OK guys, it's time to practice your pronunciation. Today's sentence is, "We can ask the server" ...

As you can tell, it's short and sweet. Today, we'll focus on the /ə/ sound in can and the, so let's go into it. Repeat after me.

We can ... one more time, We can. Keep on going, the server ...

All right, let's go for the full sentence now.

• We can ask the server.

Great work, guys. Now, I know many of you have trouble with differentiating between can and can't. So, let's practice with can't, as well.

With can't, you want to really widen your moth, /æ/ ... can't ...

All right, let's try in the sentence.

• We can't ask the server.

Keep on practicing and you'll get it in no time.

Onishi: Hey David, teaching math in a different language is challenging, isn't it?

David: Oh, yeah, that's for sure. I mean the simple stuff I think I can do, but I think I'd have a lot of trouble with something like differential calculus.

Roza: It's almost as if math is another language all on its own.

Onishi: Oh yeah, that's correct. というわけで、今日はこの辺で。

All: Bye.