Season2 Unit30 「英語と日本語、それぞれの学び方」11/12(Sat) 19:00〜19:15 2Part構成　公開日：2016/11/16

When did you seriously start to study English? (*1)
(いつ本気で英語の勉強始めたの？)

I guess I started when I was a university student. (*2)
(大学生の時だったかな。)

I tried a lot of things to improve my English. (*3)
(英語の上達のためにたくさんのことをしたよ。)

What worked the best for improving your English? (*4)
(何がベストだった？)

I studied abroad for 2 months.
(二か月間、留学に行ったんだ。)

Where at? (*5)
(どこ？)

In Seattle. (*6)
(シアトルだよ。)

But only for 2 months, right? (*6)
(でもたったの二か月でしょ？)

Yeah, but I spoke English every single day. (*7)
(うん、でも来る日も来る日も英語を話したよ。)

How did you manage that? (*8)
(どうやって？)

I went to the bar and found a guy who was so talkative. (*9)
(バーに行って話好きの人を見つけてたよ。)

日本について話すのがすごく好きな人がたくさんいたよ。
(ヒント：主語を、「たくさんの人々」にしましょう。)

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Quite a few people liked to talk about Japan. (*10)

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So many people wanted to talk about Japan. (*11)

So, Lindsay, how did you study Japanese? (*1)
(リンジーはどうやって日本語を勉強したの？)

Since I didn't have any Japanese friends at the time, I studied by watching Japanese movies. (*2)
(私は日本人の友達がいなかったから、映画で勉強したわ。)

What kind of Japanese movies?
(どんな？)

The Ghibli series.
(ジブリ)

Which one was your favorite?
(へ～、何が好きなの？)

How is it you don't know anything about me, even though you are married to me? (*3)
(あなた、私と結婚しているのに何も知らないわね。)

My favorite was Totoro.
(トトロよ。)

I watched it many times. I almost memorized the whole thing! (*4)
(何度も見たわ。セリフを暗記しちゃうくらい。)

I practiced by repeating their lines. (*5)
(声に出してセリフを話すの。)

いろんなジブリを見て、セリフを覚えていくうちに、だんだん日本語がわかってきたわ。
(ヒント：I ______ Japanese little __ little _____ watching Ghibli movies.)

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I learned Japanese little by little while watching Ghibli movies. (*6)

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I learned Japanese little by little during watching Ghibli movies. (*7)