2015.10.09
Bizmates初級ビジネス英会話 Point 112 ”tedious work”
初級者向けビジネス英会話 Bizmates for beginners 第112弾は、”tedious work” です。
退屈で時間ばかりかかってしまう仕事ってありますよね。
ヒカの同僚 タロウは日本語はもちろん、英語も堪能です。
ヒカはタロウに言いました。
「聞いたよタロウ！お前、うちの会社のウェブサイトを全部日本語から英語に翻訳したんだって？！やりがいありそうだな！」
「うーん。退屈だし時間がかかる仕事だよ。」と答えたい場合、あなたがタロウなら英語で何と言いますか？
“Yeah this work is boring and takes a long time.”
でも十分伝わりますが、これだととても長いセンテンスになってしまいます。
そこで、
“It’s tedious work.”
と言ってみましょう。簡潔で自然な表現です。
発音もビデオでチェック！
ぜひこの表現を使ってみてください。
Hello and welcome to this Bizmates for
beginners video series and today's word
is "tedious." Tedious work. What kind of work is tedious work? Happy work? good work?
easy work? We will find out but first
let's do our test. so I imagine we are
colleagues and I ask you "Why is Taka
always so tired? He's always sleepy."
And you say... that's right! I think he's moonlighting. I think he has another job.
OK, I hope you got that. OK let's go on to
today's word "tedious" work. OK here's
what I sometimes hear. So let's imagine Taro can speak Japanese and English. Both his
Japanese and English are very good. So
and I say: Taro, I've heard you're
translating our website from Japanese to
English. Wow that must be exciting!
Translating the entire website from
Japanese to English. And Taro says: Yeah
this work is boring and takes a long
time.
OK. Boring and takes a long time.
Actually this sentence is perfect. "This
work is boring and takes a long time" but
a short way to say this, a natural way to
say this, is like this -- I say: So Taro I heard you're
translating our website. Wow it must be
exciting! And he says:
It's tedious work. Oh really? So it's boring and it takes a long time. I see.
Very natural. It's tedious work. So work that's boring, it takes a long time... I don't know
like data input. Inputting data or just
things that take a long time and you
have to do is just not exciting, we say
it's tedious work. OK, so let's
look at pronunciation, it's tedious work
tee-dee-yus work. You try... Good!
OK with my sentence: I've heard you're
translating our website... Oh I see. OK for homework
next time I will say "I've heard you're
translating our website." And you say...
This is tedious work or it's tedious work.
Please remember this and we will see you
next time. Thank you.
beginners video series and today's word
is "tedious." Tedious work. What kind of work is tedious work? Happy work? good work?
easy work? We will find out but first
let's do our test. so I imagine we are
colleagues and I ask you "Why is Taka
always so tired? He's always sleepy."
And you say... that's right! I think he's moonlighting. I think he has another job.
OK, I hope you got that. OK let's go on to
today's word "tedious" work. OK here's
what I sometimes hear. So let's imagine Taro can speak Japanese and English. Both his
Japanese and English are very good. So
and I say: Taro, I've heard you're
translating our website from Japanese to
English. Wow that must be exciting!
Translating the entire website from
Japanese to English. And Taro says: Yeah
this work is boring and takes a long
time.
OK. Boring and takes a long time.
Actually this sentence is perfect. "This
work is boring and takes a long time" but
a short way to say this, a natural way to
say this, is like this -- I say: So Taro I heard you're
translating our website. Wow it must be
exciting! And he says:
It's tedious work. Oh really? So it's boring and it takes a long time. I see.
Very natural. It's tedious work. So work that's boring, it takes a long time... I don't know
like data input. Inputting data or just
things that take a long time and you
have to do is just not exciting, we say
it's tedious work. OK, so let's
look at pronunciation, it's tedious work
tee-dee-yus work. You try... Good!
OK with my sentence: I've heard you're
translating our website... Oh I see. OK for homework
next time I will say "I've heard you're
translating our website." And you say...
This is tedious work or it's tedious work.
Please remember this and we will see you
next time. Thank you.
