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Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show. Today’s song is called Kings of MySpace. It’s by P-D-Flo Films.

I really like this song. But I think it is very hard to understand for English students – because there’s a lot of slang and cultural references. So don’t worry if you don’t understand most of it. I can’t understand some of it too actually.

If you just watch it and learn a couple of new words that’s enough.

They talk about three stereotypes. They are:
the emo guy
the wannabe thug
the meterosexual guy

I talked about emo before. And a thug is a violent person, especially a criminal.
Wannabe is short for want to be and it means a person who tries to be someone they’re not.
The wannabe thug in the video dresses like he’s a gangster but he’s not.
A metrosexual ... that’s a fairly new word. It means something like guys who live in cities an do things usually considered to be feminine – like be interested in fashion and skincare. It think there’s debate around what it means but anyway, something like that.

I like these lines:
Get naked in the bathroom and take some pics
Put the flash on .. so they can see no zits

Pics is short for pictures. And a zit is a pimple or a spot on your skin.
And that’s a good trick – if you use bright lights, it looks like you have good skin.

But wait I have no friends, so what do I do?
It's okay, we were once losers just like you
I had zero friends, not even Tom would approve me

Tom is the guy who founded MySpace. And when you join American MySpace then you automatically get Tom as a friend.
So that’s a funny line: not even Tom would approve me.
Recently Japanese MySpace just started and Ozzie is the Japanese version of Tom.

Finally these two lines:

All the fly chicks will show you e-love
Don't even ask for the digits, just get the three dubs

Fly means sexy or cool ... mainly American, I think.
I’ve never heard anyone use fly in New Zealand.

The digits means a telephone number. And three dubs means url.
So that’s a sign of the times – before when you met someone you’d just ask their phone number – but these days people also ask for urls or user names.



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Kia ora in Stick News today, Bono has received a medal from the United Kingdom. He is now a knight.

The British honours system is a means of rewarding individuals' personal bravery, achievement, or service to the United Kingdom.
Within this system, there are ten orders of chivalry.
One of these orders is called: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
Yesterday Irish rock star Bono became a member of this order.
Now he’s a knight.
Normally, people who become knights get to be called Sir.
But not Bono – because he’s Irish.
His son was reportedly disappointed Bono didn’t receive a Star Wars light saber.

And that was Stick News for Friday the 30th of March.
Kia Ora.

the snow report

Today I went for another walk around my neighbourhood.

単語：chivalry　騎士道、騎士制度

訳
今日のスティックニュースは、ボノがイギリス王室から勲章を貰ったことです。彼は現在、騎士です。

イギリスの名誉制度は、個々の勇敢さ、偉業、イギリスへの忠誠心を褒賞する意味合いがあります。このシステムの中で、騎士制度の１０の階級があります。そのうちのひとつは、イギリス国王の最も偉大な階級と呼ばれています。昨日、アイルランドロックスター・ボノはこの階級の一人になりました。今、彼はナイトです。一般的に、ナイトとなった人はSirと呼ばれるようになりますが、ボノは違います。なぜなら彼は、アイルランド人だからです。

伝えられた所によると、彼の息子は、行方不明です。ボノはスターヲーズのライトセイバーを受け取ってません。


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conversations with sarah
#205 Did you hear Bono got a medal?

Step 1: Repeat Jun’s lines.
Step 2: Read Jun’s lines and talk to Sarah.

Sarah Did you hear Bono got a medal?

Jun Yeah, what was it?

Sarah Um, it says here: he was crowned a "Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.”

Jun What’s an order?

Sarah I don’t really know. It sounds like a strange secret group or something … but I think it’s just a medal.

Jun Who do they give it to?

Sarah People they think have done good things, I guess. And they usually take it away if you break the law.

Jun What’s it good for?

Sarah Nothing really. Except maybe you get to talk to some special people.

Jun What do you mean?

Sarah Like if I rocked up to the queen of England or the prime minister ... they probably wouldn’t talk to me. But if I had one of those medals they’d be like: how do you do.






questionanswer

From this quiz by Charles Kelly.

Illustrations by: UVic Humanities Computing and Media Centre and Half-Baked Software

Kings of MySpace
lyrics

M to the Y, S P A C E
MySpace dot com, it's the place to be
We da kings of MySpace,
just check the friend list
I got ass for days, this sh*t is endless

Not a MySpace whore, I'm a MySpace pimp
My views keep rising like the Goodyear blimp
With just one click we can be best friends
I've seen more news flashing than CNN

25-8 I check the MySpace
I just can't wait to check the MySpace
25-8 I check the MySpace
It makes life great when I check the MySpace
25-8 I check the MySpace
It's how I get dates I check the MySpace
25-8 I check the MySpace
And if you ain't got a page then get out of my face

Now first things first, get yourself an account
So you can tell the whole e-world what you're all about
Get naked in the bathroom and take some pics
Put the flash on .. so they can see no zits

But wait I have no friends, so what do I do?
It's okay, we were once losers just like you
I had zero friends, not even Tom would approve me
But then we found the key to getting MySpace love
I became the emo guy
and I'm the wannabe thug
Put on our backwards caps, stunner shades and chapsticks
Added a Tupac song, started hitting up black chicks

Grew my hair long
Put up Dashboard Confessional
Put on tight jeans that smashed up my testicles
MySpace bitches hit you with the request
Get more underage p***y than Ryan Seacrest

25-8 I check the MySpace
I just can't wait to check the Myspace
25-8 I check the MySpace
It makes life great when I check the MySpace
25-8 I check the MySpace
It's how I get dates I check the MySpace
25-8 I check the MySpace
And if you ain't got a page then get out of my face

You can be the meterosexual guy in the sweatervest
And just like that, bam you got friend requests
Woah, new pics, new ..., they all just keep adding me
got so many kudos my page is getting cavities

New birthdays too, the fun is unlimited
Oh, quick, go to Google and find me fun images
IMG to the SRC
Here a Photobucket flyer for my party

All the fly chicks will show you e-love
Don't even ask for the digits, just get the three dubs
Send her a slick message, get yourself a hot date
If it all goes well, slide her in the top eight

It's addictin' like how a crackhead feels
Although the pics might be fake, the love is all real
And just when you thought that its come to an end
Press the refresh button and do it again
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Hi, I have a very very simple expression for you today.
ちわ。今日はとっても簡単な表現です。

Look what the cat dragged in.

This is an expression we use when we are surprise to see someone.
これは、誰かと偶然会って驚いた時に使う表現です。

Someone suddenly comes into a room. We’ll say
誰かが突然、部屋に入ってきて

Kind of feeling what my..? what are you doing here?
ここで何してんの？？みたいな感情を表現する感じ。

 Look what the cat dragged in.

Now, if you look in Japanese dictionary or English dictionary,
英和か英英辞書を見ると、

it’ll say something like that this is informal way to point out
これは、表現する正式な方法ではない

 someone who is coming into whose dirty or untidy.
汚い部屋に誰かが入ってくることを


But it’s not that specific.
でも、それはそんなに明確なモノではなく、

It’s not so always negative, it’s often used a joking manner.
そんなにマイナスでも無い。冗談として使われる。

I’m surprised to see you.
会ってとっても驚いた。


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Where does it come from?
この表現はどこから来たのか？

If you have a cat, sometimes cat like to go out
もし猫を飼ってるなら、猫は外にでるのが好きで

and kill little bird, まいす（？）, catch a mouse, bird or snake
小さな鳥を殺したり、、ネズミ、蛇なんか捕まえたりして

and they bring it back and drop it.
持ち帰り、家に置きます。

Often times the animals are still alive and we’ll say
だいたいその動物はまだ生きていて、

“Oh, look at that. It’s a kind of dead. Almost dead animal.”
見てみろよ！死んでるっぽい。ほぼ死んでる動物だ！

But from this, we get this idiom
でも、こっからこのイディオムはできた。

Look what the cat dragged in.

しーゆー。

Hi everyone. Today’s slang expression is grasshopper.
ちわ。今日のスラング表現は、グラスホッパーです。

You know grasshopper is?
Grasshopperってなんだか知ってる？

This is a grasshopper right here.

Now, you’re probably wondering why that is slang?
なんでこれがスラングなのかなぁって考えてると思う。

Well, here is another meaning of grasshopper that you may not know.
あなたが知らないであろうグラスホッパーの意味があります。

Grasshopper is American way, I think British well too, of saying a student.
グラスホッパーは、たぶんブリティッシュ英語でも同じだと思う、生徒を意味します。

I am the teacher and you are grasshopper.


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This comes from 1970’s. There was American TV show.

The name of American TV show was Kung Fu.

And on the Kung Fu TV show,

the bold master would prefer to say student as grasshopper with Chinese accent.
ハゲ先生は、中国アクセントでグラスホッパーと生徒を呼ぶのを好んだ。

Of course they spoke English, which doesn’t make sense.
もちろん彼らは、英語を喋っていて、意味は無い。

Anyway, in a movie native speaker might prefer to call a student grasshopper.
とにかく、ネイティブスピーカーは生徒をグラスホッパーと呼ぶのを好んだ。

Yes, grasshopper. How can I help you, grasshopper?

We don’t say grasshopper, but we say grasshoppa-.

Don’t be angry if you are Chinese, this is just joking way of saying student.
中国人だとしても怒んないで、冗談だから。

We don’t mean any disrespect by it.
侮辱するつもりはないです。

It comes from TV show. That was created by Bruce Lee.

Be careful the pronunciation of grasshopper.

See you~..

間違い指摘歓迎。↓自信なし。

Hi, today’s question is from poster name frostfrog.

Fist of all, thank you for your question

I had to erase frostfrog’s question
質問を消去しなければならなった。

because there was mistakes on the video it posted under..
なぜなら、投稿したビデオに間違いがあったから。

So I apologize, I’m sorry for that, but I do remember the question, the question is
だから、ごめんね。でも、質問は覚えてます。

How do you say “stomping grounds”?
Stomping groundはどう言う？

What does “stomping grounds” mean?
Stomping groundの意味は？

First of all, the word “stomp” is 踏みつける事,足を踏み鳴らす事.

Your stomping grounds are basically way to refer to your area where you hang out.
Stomping groundは、基本的にキミが住んでいた場所を言う方法です。

It often use with word “old”.
その言葉は頻繁に「Old」と一緒に使われます。

For example, I’m from New York City and I hang out in the village area
例えば、私はＮＹからきてます、

and along with the school in down there. So those are my stomping grounds.
（何言ってるかわからなかった。）

New York City is my stomping ground.

Especially, the village is my old stomping round. I noticed to say “old”.

My old stomping ground.

If I come to your city, I’ll ask you know, for example, very well in my answer
もし僕がキミの町に行ったら、君はなんでも答えられる。

“Yeah. Here is my old stomping ground.

This is the area I used to hang out and walk around a lot.”.
ここは昔僕が生活していた街なんだ。

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Basically, it is my old familiar neighborhood.

Somebody old stomping ground is old familiar,

kind of なつかしいfeeling neighborhood.

They know very well because they stomped around very much in the area.

See you!

参照：Wikipedia

 

Hi, everyone. It’s Sunday, today.


If you’re in Japan, it’s good chance you’re going out to see 花見.
もしあなたが日本にいるなら、花見をしに外出するいい機会です。

That’s the big news in Japan right now. It’s hanami.
それは今、日本で大ニュースになってます。

How do you say hanami in English?
花見を英語でどう言いますか？

Well, one of the big programs with speaking English is a lot of Japanese people
大きな問題点のひとつは、多くの人が日本語に忠実な英語を求めることです。

want to use English for something really Japanese.

We don’t have hanami in English. We don’t do hanami,
英語に花見はありません。花見をしません。

so if you’re speaking to foreigner here in japan,
だから、もし日本で外国人と話すなら、

just say hanami. People understand hanami
ただ花見って言っちゃいなYO. 花見を理解します

but you can explain it. So you can’t really translate hanami.
でも、花見の説明をすべき。花見を直訳することはできません。

Hanami is hanami. But you can explain it.
花見は花見です。でも、花見の説明はできます。

How do you explain it?
どう説明をしますか？

Well, I’m going out to enjoy cherry blossom
桜の花を楽しみに外出する

we’re going out to see cherry blossoms.
桜の花を見に行く

We’re going out to have a party under cherry blossoms trees.
桜の木の下でパーティーをしに行く。

Kind of a picnic basically.
基本的に、ピクニックみたいなもん。

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If you say hanami, basically hanami is a picnic under cherry blossom trees,
もし、花見って言ったら

so if you have foreign friends, if you invite them to hanam
もし外国人の友達がいて、花見に招待したら

just invite them to hanami and they might ask you,

Hey would you like to join us hanami?
花見に参加しないかい？

They say

“What’s hanami?”
花見ってなんだよ？

you can tell them.

“It’s basically picnic under a cherry blossom trees.

We’re enjoying sake, beer, food and looking at cherry blossoms. ”
酒、ビール、食事や桜の花を見ることを楽しむんだ。

 
if you’re lucky, cherry blossoms will be in 満開.
もしラッキーだったら、満開かもしれない。

What’s 満開 in English?

Full bloom/full blossom

The cherries are full bloom.

The cherries are in full blossom.


All right? That’s for all, today. See you soon.

Hi, everyone. This week proverb is very short. Only four words.

Waste not, want not.

Don’t waste anything, you won’t need anything.
何も無駄にするな、なにも必要ではない。

Very simple proverb and hope you remember this week.

WAST NOT. WANT NOT!!

See you tomorrow.

 I had great plans for Shutdown Day. But ... I wasn't feeling so good because went out the night before. I went to a bar called Fatty's. Apparently they didn't do so well this year and they're not going to open next year. So this was their last night ever. Fatty's is a bar inside two trucks.

After Fatty's we went to Jam Bar.
On Shutdown Day the computer was shutdown and so was my body. I spent most of the day lying in bed feeling sorry for myself. I recovered sometime in the afternoon and in the evening went out to meet some friends at Loaf. They happened to be having a jembe night.
The day after Shutdown day I did some of what I was planning to do on shutdown day. We went shopping at the second hand stop and found a few interesting things like this clock.
I wanted to make some art so I bought some material and some nails.I made a frame and nailed the material to it for canvas.
The canvas has been blank all week because I couldn't decide what to paint. Today I finally decided on birds.

引用元http://thedailyenglishshow.blogspot.com/2007/03/show-332-saturday-31-march.html

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Sunday Kitchen: Peanut Butter

After last Sunday's show Jonny was telling me exactly how dodgy that peanut butter was.
He reckoned peanut butter was easy to make. And he decided to make some.

He put some peanuts in the food processor with some oil and salt.

I made some too. I made two different kinds, with two different types of peanuts.
The peanuts with the skins on made nicer peanut butter.



引用元http://thedailyenglishshow.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html

Hi, everybody. Today’s business expression is “Cash Cow”.

A cash cow is a part of a business or business that make a lots of money steady.

Now could be for example, if I have a business, let say just I have a takoyaki stand,

for some reasons my takoyaki stand is very very popular

and I’m always making money and I’m very happy making money.

Well, I would say my takoyaki stand is my Cash Cow. It’s a cash cow.

Cow, of course, has teats. Teats are breast for cow.

And if you pull on the teats, milk comes out.

But in this case I don’t get milk, I get MONEY CASH!


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Another way to use “Cash Cow” is, for example,

if company, I don’t know Sony, has one product that makes a lot of money,

we say that product is Cash Cow.

For example the iPod.

Now mackintosh makes many things, for example, computer you’re using now,

this computer here is iMac. I’m very happy with it.

But I think mackintosh is making all rich, real good money from the iPod.

So we can say iPod is their cash cow.

See you tomorrow.

Hi, everybody. The idiom of this week is very simple.

It’s the words “Hit" and "books” as in hit the books

If you want to improve your English, you have to hit the books.

Hit is very very useful verb.

Hit changes every time you use it depending on the situation,

but today I’m just gonna teach you one simple idiom.

Hit the books

Next week, I’ll teach you another hit the books idiom.

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Ah, this week if you want to say study, you can say hit the books.

It’s time to hit the books. You’ve better hit the books.

If you wanna improve your English, hit the books!

What’re you doing tonight? Do you wanna go up to a party?

No, I’ve gotta stay home and hit the books. I’ve gotta test tomorrow.

OK? Very simple to use to study

See you later~

Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.
Today’s guest is Camille.
I asked Camille about his background and about what languages he has learnt.
His native language is French and he has learnt many languages including German, English, Swedish, Chinese and Japanese.
He is a musician. He’s studied computer science. He’s been a teacher and since December he has been living in Niseko.

You said you were from Switzerland but you learnt English in Germany ... ?
So, OK, the whole story is ... I was born in France. And I grew up in France until I was nine. And then I moved to Germany for five years. And then after five years, I moved to Switzerland, where I’ve been living mostly since.

What was the first foreign language you started learning?
I can’t really answer that question. I guess it was German. Like if you really look at the dates, the first book I picked up or the first sentence I had to memorise, I think were in German. But I started learning German and English pretty much at the same time.

Did you start learning English at school?
Not English. Ah, I started learning German at school, yeah, but English I mostly started learning with my friends. My neighbours from America and one of my best friends from ah, from the UK.

STICK NEWS

Kia ora this is Stick News. It’s election time in Japan and damaged ear drums aren’t the only worry – sites like YouTube are also causing concern.

Japanese politicians have a long tradition of charming voters by driving around shouting at them through loudspeakers.
This is definitely legal.
But blogging about politicians near the election apparently isn’t.
Election laws in Japan restrict media coverage during the 12 official days of campaigning.
Some people are worried about the legality of blogs and vlogs during this time.
Yesterday, the most popular blogger in Japan, Kikko, deleted her post criticizing Ishihara and replaced it with an apology.
According to Japan Media Review this restrictive law was made more than 50 years ago.
And critics of the law say the LDP are in no hurry to change it since the most tech-savvy people are not likely to vote for them.

And that was Stick News for Monday the 2nd of April.
Kia Ora.








conversations with sarah
#206 Why did you start studying Chinese?

Step 1: Repeat Sarah’s lines.
Step 2: Read Sarah’s lines and talk to Camille.

Sarah Do you like teaching?

Camille Yeah, but not in the usual way. I don’t really like classes and school. I think they can be fun, but um ... I love teaching in the sense sharing knowledge or bringing knowledge to someone. But I don’t like to stand in front of a white board, or black board ... exercise number na na na ... I don’t enjoy that.

Sarah What were your English classes at school like?

Camille Boring. Yeah, I, I don’t have ... I could speak English before I got in class. And I was always ahead of the class. I was pretty familiar with the language before the teacher brought the knowledge in the class.
It didn’t mean that I was good at it but it meant that I had no problem to hear it or read it or whatever. So I never really got interested in it. Except for the last years when we started studying like more cultural and, and literature. And then I could put myself into reading text and stuff like this. But ... I guess most of the time I was just annoying the teacher and fooling around.

Sarah How did you learn English?

Camille OK, with friends in Germany. And since I was in kind of an international school it was easy to keep on speaking with other (?) and other people. And then I spent three months in Canada when I was in high school. Living in a family so that was also a really big input. And then, yeah, other little trips here and there.

Sarah Why did you start studying Chinese?

Camille Well, it’s pretty much the same story again. I went to China last year. And since I was in China I thought it would be interesting to learn the local language. Cause um ... Language expresses a lot of things about the culture and the, and the people of a country. So if you’re in a country and you’re taking time being in this country, I think it’s a good point to maybe not learn a language, but still understand some basic um ... concepts and vocabulary. Cause it’s really interesting how people express ideas in a different way than you do.

Sarah How did you study Chinese?

Camille I took classes in Beijing for ah, about a month, a month ... yeah, about a month to get some basics brush off like really yeah, learn some basic grammar concepts. And work on my pronunciation since in Chinese pronunciation is a really important part of the language.
And then the biggest input I had on my language was when I, ah, when I was working in Shanghai. I been working in ah, in an association for handicapped people for about six months and then I had to use the language every day. Talking to my co-workers and stuff like this. So that was the immersion program. Extensive learning every day.

Sarah How have you been studying Japanese?

Camille Mainly at work. Um, for a while I had one of my co-workers, we were teaching each other language every day for an hour. I would teach her some French and she would teach me some Japanese. Um, yeah, and I have like a small hundred words in Japanese book. I have a dictionary. I have a mobile phone, which is wonderful. Ah, yeah, and talking with people and trying to talk with people, that’s ...

Sarah What advice do you have for people studying English?

Camille Practice. I was sitting in the bus on my way here and this guy was sitting, like ah, two rows behind me. He walked up to me and just like “excuse me, excuse me” and just started talking to me. And I think that’s the right attitude. I mean it might be scary for a lot of people, I don’t know I would do it, but I think he’s doing the best thing he could do for his English right now. Just run into a guy on the bus and starting to build a conversation with the little bit of English he knows. I think that’s the, the right attitude. It’s just like, yeah, go for it.


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Hi, everybody. Today’s slang expression is

How do you say “ayashii” in English?

Well, you can look on a dictionary

and you’ll see the words suspect, suspicious, doubtful

but I would say two good words are

Shady, it’s especially for the business, we say that

That’s sounds a little shady.

For example, please give me 10,000yen this week,

Next week, I’ll give you 20,000yen.

You can double your money.

If you can give me 100,000yen, next week I’ll give you 200,000yen.

I wouldn’t do that. That sounds a little shady.


What’s kind of business does your uncle do?

I don’t know he’s in some kind of shady business.







Another good word, good way to translate “ayashii”, is fishy.

Fishy is especially good for foods.

For example, open up your refrigerator and sandwich is there.

Smelled sandwich. It smells a little fishy.

The guy acting is little fishy. His story is a little fisy.

 “Fishy” can be used for people story foods.

I wouldn’t say Shady for food, but I would use it for people.

He’s a shady character.

That’s a shady business deal.

See ya~.

↓あんまり地震（自信）が無い


Hi, everybody. We’ve had some earthquakes recently in Japan.
最近、日本で地震が起こってます。

Probably, I hate earthquakes. They scare of me quite of it.  
多分、僕は地震が嫌いです。自身は僕を怖がらせる。

I guess, I should be used to them, but I’m not.
僕は地震に慣れるべきなんだろうけど、慣れてません。

 Anyway, because we have earthquakes so often, I thought,
たくさんの地震があるから

there is no role point making news video about earthquakes.
地震についてニュースビデオを作る要点が無い。

I can make a video about earthquakes for general.
一般的な地震についてのビデオを作ることができる。

Because you can watch it again and again.
何度でも見れるからね。







So first thing I’ll tell you is that in English.
まず僕が教える事は、それの英語です。

We sometimes call the Richter scale.
リクタースケールって呼びます。

Richter scale is system of majoring the strength of earthqueck
リクタースケールは地震の力を測るシステムです。

that is developing Charles F. Richter
それはチャールスFリッチャーによって考え出された。

He’s an American seismologist.
彼は、アメリカの地震学者です。

Seismologist is scientist who’s studying about earthquakes.

I’m sure you have many seismologist here in japan.
日本にはたくさんの地震学者がいることは確かです。

He developed the system of majoring earthquakes 1935.
１９３５年に彼は地震を測定するシステムを発達した。

And the system is called the Richter scale.
そして、そのシステムはリクタースケールと呼ばれている。

When you read Japanese newspaper, you see how strong earthquakes is.
日本の新聞を見ると、地震の強さがどれくらいなのかわかります。

It’s using Japanese system. Only japan use it, yes I remember that.
それは日本だけで使われてるものです。

The rest of world uses the Richter scale.
他の国々では、リクタースケールが用いられてます。

So when you read article about Japanese earthquakes in English,
だから、日本の地震について英語で書かれた記事を読むと、

it usually tell the strength according to the Richter scale.
リクタースケールを用いて地震の強さを表しています。

So you should know that.

構成は、重要な英単語と熟語を例文にしてあって覚えやすい。

英単語と熟語を覚えるのは当然だけど、

例文そのままを暗記するのもなかなか良い英語学習になると思います。

自分の学習方法は

最初は、ざーーーっと読んで、あとは復習用のCDでずっと聞いてた（てか、未だに聞いてる）。

この復習用のCDは、当然聞けばリスニングのトレーニングになるし、

単語の定着（覚える）には持ってこいです。


さらには、単語のみを暗記するのでは無く、

１文を暗記する事で自動詞・他動詞の区別も無意識的に出来るようになるし、

そしてなにより、英語を喋る時は、イチイチ文を組み立てるというよりは、

自分の知ってる文章表現をちょっと変化させて喋るから、その時に文を暗記してるとかなり有効です。

基本的に言葉を喋る時は、自分が知ってる表現方法をちょっと変えて喋ってるんだと思う。

そんな感じでいろんなところに役に立つ単語帳DUO３．０はオススメ！！！

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ペンギンリーダーは、平易な英語で書かれており、少しずつ英語で読む楽しみを実感できるよう構成された リーダーシリーズ。Easystartsからレベル６までの７段階のレベル分けとなっており、楽しめる範囲の語彙レベルで書かれた古典、映画、ミステ リー、などの豊富なジャンルを網羅してます。

　自分の英語レベルに合っていて、尚且つ、自分の興味のある本が見つかると思います。私的な事なのですが、俺は映画が好きで結構頻繁に見ています。そして、好きな映画のひとつであるジュニアロバーツ主演のノッティングヒルの恋人 の本バージョンを発見したのがこのペンギンリーダーズを知ったきっかけです。大雑把に見たところ、結構最近の映画本もあるみたいです。

レベルは下のように７段階に分けられています。

Easystarts(200 words)           

Level 1
Beginner (300 words)     　　　 　　　

Level 2
Elementary (600 words) 　　　　        

Level 3（TOEIC４７０点レベル）
 Pre-Intermediate (1200 words)      

Level 4（TOEIC６００点レベル） 
Intermediate (1700 words)

Level 5（TOEIC７３０点レベル）
Upper Intermediate (2300 words)

Level 6 
 Advanced (3000 words)


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（上のリンクをクリックすればamazonにてレベル別の本のリストが表示されます。）

　まぁ、レベルはあくまで目安ですし、自分が気に入った本を読むことを個人的にはおすすめします。例え、それが自分の現状レベルより低くても速読の練習に なりますし、間違いなく知らない単語だって出てきます。その単語の意味を推測するのもトレーニングの一環だと思います。あと、逆に現状のレベルよりも高い 本が自分が読みたいと思った本でも、それはそれでトレーニングになると思います。例え日本語で書かれた本でもつまらない本は読みたく無いですし、


自分が好きな本を読むのが一番！！！

Hi everybody. This week’s proverb is

All good things come to those who wait.
全ての事は待っている人の下へ来る。

This is the expression you use when someone is in patient
誰かが我慢しなくっちゃいけないけど彼らは今すぐに何かしたい時に使う表現です。

and they want to do something quickly.


Just calm them down. And say
ただなだめて

“Hey relax. Remember
りらくっすして～。これをおぼえときな！

All good things come to those who wait.”


OK? I hope you’ll remember! Little bit long this week.

See you tomorrow.

Hi, everyone. Today we’re gonna talk about the word “schedule”.

Many students say “I have a schedule.”

That’s not correct English

Instead of saying “I have a schedule.”,

You can say “I have an appointment.”

Or “ I have plans.”

The way you use schedule properly is talking about your day.

How is your schedule today?

Means do you have time? Do you have any plans today?

What are you doing 9am 10am 11am …..?

What are you doing today? What’s your schedule today?

How’s your schedule this week?

For example, I want to have a meeting with you.

Call you on the phone,

“Let’s get together and talk on business. Let’s get have a meeting.

How’s your schedule this week? How’s your schedule Wednesday?

How’s your schedule is your general plan for day or week.

Not one appointment or one meeting.

If you have one appointment or one meeting, just say

“I have a meeting.” “I have a appointment.” “I have plans.”

Very simple lesson, but very important.


Don’t say I have a schedule.

Do say I have a plans/ a meeting.


Or if you want to be very vague,

“I have things I have to do.”

“I have something to do.”

“I have plans.”

“There’s something I have to do.”

All of these are general things, not very specific.

OK? See you next time.

Hi, everyone. Last week we learned the expression to hit the books.

Remember? You wanna improve your English. You need to hit the books.

Well, as I said hit last week is very useful idiom.

Its words are that changing and becoming idiom is depending on a situation.

For example, if you wanna go somewhere and do something,

You just say hit plus the place
 
For example, I need money, I don’t have any money, so I’m gonna take my wallet

If I want money, I take my money and go to the bank and withdraw money.

Or I can just say any get some money, somewhere hit the bank.

I need to hit the bank.

I need to hit the bank, in my case, means I need to go to bank and take out money.





If I’m a bank robber and say

“I’m gonna hit the bank.” It probably means I’m going to steal money from the bank.

So the meaning of hit change depending on what you’re going to do.

If I say I need to hit the bathroom before we leave, just means go to the bathroom.

So hit plus place you can imagine the activity that takes place the situation.

I’ll put some example hit here. You can check out some those examples.

Hit the bank. hit the bathroom. Hit the convenient store. Hi the video store.

Something that short.

We wouldn’t say hit the hospital.

Because that takes so long time. Go in it and get out quick

You can hit the drugstore/bookstore.

If you know what you gonna get, going, get it and get out.

Ok? Thank you very much. See you tomorrow.

Hi everyone. Today, I have three words I’ll teach you
ちわ。今日３つの単語を教えます！

These words are that we use to describe black people’s hair.
それらの単語は黒人の髪型を言う時に使います。

We have frizzy, kinky, nappy.

Nappy I would say is the least polite.
NAｐｐｙは礼儀正しい表現ではない。





But it’s in new news and you’ll see at soon
新着のニュースにあって、あなたはすぐにお目にかかります。

Please check in todays
トゥディをチェックしてね（？）

When I do an action teacher lesson about news, you’ll understand what I mean.
ニュースについて先生をしてるとき、理解すると思います。

So the way you use these words is
この単語の使い方は

“She has frizzy hair, he has kinky hair, and she has nappy hair.”

Ok? See you tomorrow.