Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud 1969

Beeb中最もLとRが多発するこの曲で、LとRの聞き取りテストをしてみます。

[後日追記]聞き書きなので引用ではないのですが。念のため減らします。
[..]
and the women once proud clutched the heart of the crowd
[..]
as the boulders smashed down from the mauntain’s hand
[..]
but the cottage fell like a playing card hell
[..]
and the missionary mystic of peace love
[..]

LとRも間違いましたが。もっと間違いました。もはや英語を聞き取れる耳ではない。
なんでいままでなんとかなると思っていたのかなあー。やばいなー。

A Bridge Too Far - Horrocks speech

Beebはマイナーすぎるのでdictationしても答え合わせができません。
古くて有名な場面はたいていYouTubeに上がっていて答え合わせができます。

Bowieに飽きてきたので違うもの。最初に思いついたのが、Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks。
肝心の笑いを取っているところがちゃんと聞き取れないので、この機会に答え合わせします。

Gentlemen, this is a story that you will tell your grandchildren and mightily bored they'll be.
The plan is called Operation Market Garden. Market is the airborne element and Garden is the ground forces. That's us.
Now, this is our position on the Belgian border, here.
Tomorrow, three airborne divisions will begin landing in Holland. Thirty five thousand men taking off from 24-hour fields in troop-carrying planes or towed in gliders.
The American hundred and first, here, around Eindhoven. [The] American eighty second, here, south of Nijmegen. And our own first airborne boys and Polish brigade here, Arnhem. 64 miles behind the enemy lines.
Now their job is to take and hold all the bridges in these three areas. Our job is to punch a hole through the German frontline, here.
And then right [....], up this road, linking up with each airborne division on the way.
Speed is the vital factor.
The plan is to rejoin Eindhoven in two to three hours. And Arnhem, in two to three days. That, Gentlemen, is the prize, bridge of the Rhine, the last bridge between us and Germany.
Kick off will be 14:35 hours tomorrow afternoon.
The Irish Guards under the command of Colonel Vandeleur will take the lead.
- Christ. not us, again.
What did you say to that, Joe?
-Delighted, sir. Truly delighted.
I've selected you to leader is not only because of your extraordinary fighting ability, but also because, in the unlikely event that the Germans ever get you, they will assume from your attire they've captured a wretched peasant immediately send you on your way.
Now maintaining the speed is our advance will no doubt be tough going as it's a single highway but no matter what we must reach those first airborne boys in 48 hours.
Gentlemen, I'm not saying that this will be the easiest party that we've ever attended.
But I still wouldn't miss it for the world.
I like to think of this as one of those American Western films. The paratroops lacking substantial equipment, always short of food, these are the besieged homesteaders. the Germans well they naturally are the bad guys and Thirty Corps, we, my friends, are the cavalry on the way to the rescue.

自動字幕も怪しいですが（２つの食い違う自動字幕とコメントから答え合わせしてます）、字幕を見ながら聞くと確かにその通りという感じ。
こんなにクリアなスピーチなのに、聞き取れていません。CAEはToo Farかも。

Dave Lee Travis Show 20th October 1969

Dictationをしてみたものの。意味が通じない箇所多数。リスニング力のなさを痛感。

David, the record would you have them chart in Britain at the moment is that would be the biggest success today, isn’t it?
- My ONLY success today.
Well, wouldn’t say that. Tell us a little bit about you. Was it planned long time ago or is it very recent?
- Most people [presume..] it written because of anticipating the space shot, but in fact, it started last November and the recording of it started last December and it was finally finished in June, after which is released within three weeks which is very good going
So, right, now, you are not doing it in the studio, today
- No, No
Why is this?
- We'd need about five orchestras to get them, the right sound I think. That's possibly [pass] everybody’s budget.
Yeah. that could be true. Do you do live version of it when you travelling on
- Just with twelve string. Just with twelve string guitar
Yeah? And now with your little electronic gadget
- Yes. I use that too
That's it.
- then mention
[but the real, real] know too really.
Have you got anything that you are doing today’s program that is not on record
- Oh yeah. We’ve got a number that we [dug] up today, which was written about four years ago. hasn’t been out of the house. its the first airing its [over] had anywhere.
Really. Why it was not recorded?
- Why? My mother thought the lyrics were dirty
Are they?
- No. Not at all.
Oh, dear. What is it called?
- Very [serial]. Let me sleep beside you.
Can we hear it?
- Yes


2001 Space Odyssey UK release: 15 May 1968
Space Oddity release: 11 July 1969
Apollo 11 space shot: 16 July 1969

London Bye Ta-Ta 1968

単語はあまり勉強にはならないのですが。
早すぎて口がついていけないので。只管朗読。

The boys in the clothes shop
sold me curry for a pound
His cardboard face is soggy
and his sellings thorny crown

cardboard face is soggyはこの意味かな？

(prenominal)
without substance
a cardboard smile

informal
lacking in spirit or positiveness
（以上引用はCollins。）

his sellingsの使い方がわからないー。
his selling isの短縮かな？？もっと英語に触れないとだめだなー。

She loves to love all beauty
and she says the norm is funny
but she whimpers in the morning
when she finds she has no money

normの意味がわからないー。当時の流行語とか？？
ずっとThe Laughing Gnomeのgnomeだと思ってましたが。発音が違うんですよね。聞き取り・・。

幻のシングル曲。1968年は最初の録音年。
1970年に再録音されたのに、The Prettiest Starに置き換わったようです。
なんかいろいろタイミングを逃した感じですが、まあまたそこがたまらない曲です。

Space Oddity 1969

今年のチャレンジの只管朗読のテキストはBowie at the Beeb。
聞き流すだけだったのを、シャドーウィングして、音読して、歌って、単語やフレーズも習得するというところまで踏み込んでみます。

般若心教に匹敵するのは、というか、繰り返しに耐えられるのは、好きなものしかない。
古典は引用できるので役に立ちます。とはいえ、Beebは有名ではない曲が多いので、やっぱり繰り返しに耐えられるというその一点だけですね。

散歩しながら一緒にぶつぶつ歌っていますが、フレーズをちゃんと習得するためにブログに文字に書きます。
初回はSpace Oddity。何万回聞いたかわからないくらい聞いてますが。こうやって改めて取り組むとoddityの綴りを間違います。
歌詞はほぼ暗記していたつもりでしたが、Use of Englishはちゃんとしてなかったかもということで見直し。

And may God's love be with you.

MODAL VERB [formal]l: People sometimes use may to express hopes and wishes.

You've really made the grade.

PHRASE [informal]: If someone makes the grade, they succeed, especially by reaching a particular standard.
BeebだとYou'veがほとんど聞こえないですが。

Here am I floating round my tin can.

Here am Iの使い方。Here comes the Sunでおなじみの倒置。
GooleするとHere I amが正しいという説明も出てきますが。アメリカ英語か？
Davide Bowieの名曲にあるので、少なくともインフォーマルイギリス英語としては正しいはず。

あとround。float round。動詞＋round。
Round is an adverb and preposition that has the same meanings as 'around'. Round is often used with verbs of movement, such as 'walk' and 'drive', and also in phrasal verbs such as 'get round' and 'hand round'. Round is commoner in British English than American English, and it is slightly more informal.
こちらもインフォーマルイギリス英語でした。

（以上引用はCollins。）
あとはPlanet Earthはtheがつかない。The Spiders from Marsもそう。でも、Far above the moon。

やっぱり聞き流しているだけではもったいない。

只管朗読

勉強をなまけている間に2022年になってしまいました。

年末年始休みで時間ができたので、ブラウザのReading Listを整理していたら、これがでてきました。英語ものはこのブログにとりあえず保存。
http://katsuura-eigojuku.com/只管朗読/

昔読んだ記事かなにかで只管朗読という英語学習メソッドを知り、探したら書籍が絶版となっていたので、抜粋を掲載していたこのサイトの記事をあとで読もうと思ってReadingListにいれていたものだったと思います。

只管。ひたすら。

英語学習はもはや修行、苦行。勤行みたいな只管朗読は間違いなく英語の体得に効果があるはず。
今年はこれをためしてみようかなと思う。続く気がまったくしないですが。

まずは般若心経とか光明真言みたいなテキスト選びから。
上記サイトでは、中学校の教科書を推奨していますが。もうちょっと悟りがひらけそうな感じのがいいなー。