Discovery [SCRIPT]

「サァンダァウィーッチ」「あそービぃながら、ネイティブ英語ガぁ身に付クぅ！」な～んて、アホっぽいＴＶコマーシャルがありますが・・・

名詞の発音をわざわざ練習させるような教材は、眉唾物です
名詞には単・複数形があるし、冠詞があります。実際の会話と違って聞こえます。
また、節や句になった時、重なる単語同士は団子(リエゾン)になっているからです。
たくさん、いろんな人の声で会話を聞くと、名詞の発音などはオマケで付いてくるようなものだと思います。

名詞の発音を抜き取って覚えるようなことはいつもはしませんが、
恐竜の名前の発音がとってもおもしろいので注目してみました。

Stegosaur (ステガソラス)　
Triceratops(トライサラタプス)
Tyrannosaur/Tyrannosaurus(トゥラノソウ(ス))

上から順に ステゴザウルス トリケラトプス ティラノザウルスです
トリケラトプスの「ケ」って跡形もありませんね

最初にカタカナ語にした日本人がこんな発音しなかったら英語とカタカナ語の２種類を覚えなくても済んだのに、惜しい・・・気がいたします。






There's nothing an inquisitive monkey likes more than discovering new things. And museums are great place for discoveries, like how different something can seem when you look at just a small part of it.

Hi, George. You're getting a close look at the dinosaur exhibit I see.
Then you'll be interested in this. This newly discovered Stegosaur skeleton is our next exhibit.

Discovering dinosaur bones look like the best job in the world.
The museum always gave George lots to think about.
Unlike Charkie who only ever thought about one thing, playing.
He discovered a bone. That magnifying glass would've come in handy. But Charkie was probably blocks away by now.

George couldn't let Charkie chew on it. What is some dinosaur lost this bone on its way to the museum?

Stegosaurs had all his bones. So did Triceratops. And Tyrannosaurus. If a dinosaur hadn't lost it, what kind of bone could it be?

Luckily there was always a box of Hundley's treats in the lobby.

Tough puzzle.
It was way too small to be a bone from a man.
You wanna help with my puzzle, George?
Did he know any one what's smaller bones?

Bone wouldn't even fit in a canary. It wasn't bendy enough to be inside a snake. An octopus didn't seem to have any bones. George needed to find bigger less wiggly animals.

A giraffe was too big. The meercats were not cooperative. It was too small for a lion bone. And they seemed to think either that bone or George was their lunch.

This wasn't easy. All George knew who sure were places the bone couldn't've come from. Maybe it came from something no one had ever seen. Some undiscovered dinosaur!
You're a scientist now, George.
But how could monkey figure out exactly what an undiscover dinosaur look like.

Hi George. I drop some puzzle pieces. I can't finish the elephant without all of pieces.
The pieces George found didn't look like pieces of elephant.
You found them!
Well, now you can't tell what you've got by looking at only one piece. You have to put them altogether. See?
So this see what his discovery look like. George had to find the rest of the bones.
If he found one bone in the park, the rest must be close by.

Charkie kept treating George's discovery like a toy, which may explain (that) might never seen any dog's scientist.
She didn't have it. Her paws were dirty. She buried it!

Another bone. This was George's very own dinosaur dig site. A dinosaur's waiting for millions of years to be found.
It something wasn't right. The bones were all alike.

Hi, George. What do you have there? You found all these? Here in the park?
Charkie, so this is where you've been hiding out your chewing toys.
Huh, those are Charkie's missing bones, alright? And we choose a bottle of brand-new one, too.

So that's why Charkie's treating George's discovery like a toy.

What a find! We've been looking for missing toys all year along.
Thanks for finding them, George.

Oh, you made a helpful discovery, George. Who knows! Maybe someday you'll even dig up a dinosaur.
We've gotta go. Bye-bye.
See you George.
Have fun, George.

Hey, there. Have you been digging up my park?　 Then you've gotta hole to fill in.

Discovering dinosaur bones must harder than it a lot. But even if a bone George found wasn't a real dinosaur bone, it was pretty close.