まずは母音から始めよう

第2回まずは母音から始めよう

leprechaun: レプラカーン; アイルランドの伝説の妖精
octagon: 八角形
terminus: 終端、終点、境界
xylophone: シロフォン、木琴

短母音short vowels
e/a; phonics
aの方がeよりも口を若干大きく開けて、のどの奥の方で発音する

o/a
oの方が口の開き方が小さく、のどの奥の方で発音する

i/e
iは横に大きく広げ、eは若干縦にも開く

o/u
uは口を大きく開かずに、日本語の「ア」に似たような感じ

batter: 揚げ物パンなどの生地

(16′20)

Betty Botter bought some butter.
"But," she said "this butter's bitter!
If I put it in my batter,
It will make my batter bitter!
But a bit of better butter,
That would make my batter better!"
So she bought a bit of butter
Better than her bitter butter
And she put it in her batter.
And the batter wasn't bitter.
So 'twas better Betty Botter
Bought a bit of better butter, wasn't it!

(24′00)
a

"As a matter of fact, the bad black cat that sat on the mat was happy to be fat."

u

"Uncle Doug was in a hut as snug as a bug in a rug."

i,a,e

"The fit man who sat in the sand sent a letter to the men with the pet that bit the rat in the hut."

カリフォルニア訛り
swallowing the last syllable

Surf's Up!: Let's go

'Catch you later!': さようなら

ostracize: 仲間はずれにする
posh: 上流階級の、気取った
enunciate: 明瞭に発音する

(34′18)

Marley was dead, to begin with.
There is no doubt whatever about that.
The register of his burial was signed
by the clergyman, the clerk,
the undertaker, and the chief mourner.
Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name
was good upon 'Change for anything
he chose to put his hand to.
Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
Carles Dickens(1812-1870), 'A Christmas Carol'

This is the malt that lay in the house that Jack built.

the 60-second challenge
1.batter/ butter
5.bid/ bit