ビジネス英語と英語訛り

111030.mp3　(2分32秒)
　BBCのドキュメンタリ、Robert Burns – Poeple’s poet を見ながら、ETCマンツーマン英会話のチャールズ先生のレッスンを受けています。

　ビジネス英語を学ぶ人たちに、イギリス英語の方言を学ぶことは、どのような意味があるのでしょうか。チャールズ先生にお話をお聞きしました。

If they know they are going to do business in a particular part of English town or in Scotland, it is important they get used to hearing the local dialects, so that they have better comprehension about the people saying.

Under the normal circumstances, you don’t need to go too deeply into dialect of English.

But if you know to be in a certain part of the country, you know that English is a little bit different to everywhere els.

So then it is important to study English in the dialect of the part of the country.

If you go to Yorkshire then, they drag vowel a little bit more.

And if you go to the County Durham, it is not the same as Scottish dialect, but it’s similar.

“You cannot understand always what they are saying, but always speaking that kind of, a sort of…”

It’s a bit more musical than Scottish dialect, and it’s much softer.

You have to be there to understand it.

If you go the County Durham, somewhere like that.

If you pay to study Geordie English.

Q; Geordie English?

Geordie comes from Tyneside. Newcastle.

So they live on Tyneside. So they call Geordie.

Then I come from West Hartlepool, which is the other side of the river.

So I am a Tynesider.

So that is the merit of learning English.

■出演
・ETCマンツーマン英会話のチャールズ先生
■聞き手
・青樹洋文

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