NHKラジオ英会話のディクテーション「文の説明④：動詞-ing形」L64 2021/7/1

Ohnishi: 技術革新とわたくしシリーズ。最近は技術革新によって、以前は夢だった機器が登場していますよね。相手の顔を見ながらテレビで電話、こんなのは小学生の頃ずーっと欲しかったんですよね。

Roza: 何かいいことあった？

Ohnishi: 別に、友達どうせいないし。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: Thanks for joining us again. This is Roza Akino.

Chris: Hey listeners, Chris McVay here. You know, nobody listens to me. It’s like I’m talking to myself.

Ohnishi: It’s only natural, isn’t it?

Chris: You see what I mean?

Ohnishi: さぁそれでは、今日も始めていきましょう。

Ohnishi: So, is it possible to use “have” like “He wasn’t having a phone”?

Roza: No, it’s not possible. Please don’t ever use it like that.

Chris: Impossible!

今日はありませんでした。

Chris: OK guys, are you ready to practice? As usual, catch the native speaker’s feeling about sentences. “He was walking in the park, talking to himself”. Now we want to explain the main part, “He was walking in the park”, and something is happening at the same time, so we can use -ing, “talking to himself”. “He was walking in the park”, and at the same time, “talking to himself”. Are you ready to practice? After me, “He was waking in the park, talking to himself” with that feeling, go!

Not so bad, a little bit more this feeling of something happening at the same time with -ing? “He was waling in the park, talking to himself”, last chance, go!

Now, you’ve got it. Great, well done.

Ohnishi: Hey guys, do you make video calls often?

Roza: Well, I don’t but I know Chris dose, right?

Chris: Yeah, I do because that’s the way I connect with my brothers and friends overseas especially.

Ohnishi: Right.

Roza: What about you, Sensei?

Ohnishi: As I told you, I have no friends.

Chris: Ah, that’s right. Now I remember.

Roza: Well, you can call yourself from oneself onto another.

Ohnishi: Oh, that’s a good idea.

・・・

Ohnishi: というわけで、今日はこの辺で。

All: Bye.