英会話 time trial 23/11/7(火)D2 -Steve’s Advice 姉が2人います

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英会話 time trial 23/11/7(火)D2 -Steve’s Advice 姉が2人います
-Steve’s Advice
「ネイティブの英語」 対 「自分流の英語」
今年度も折り返し地点を過ぎて、 「時間内に何も言葉が出てこない」という壁を突破した方の中には、 「毎回同じような簡単な表現しか言えない」という新たな悩みを抱える方もいるかも。 ここから学習の道が2つに分かれます。 「ネイティブの英語」 をインプットする道と 「自分流の英語」を磨く道です。
(This year as well, we have passed the halfway point and some of those who have broken through the wall of not being able to come up with any words in time have a new problem: “I can only say the same simple expressions every time.” There may be some people. From here, the learning path splits into two. There are two ways: inputting “native English” and improving “one’s own style of English.”)

例えば、 ネイティブなら 「姉」 と 「妹」 のどちらも通常は単なる sister で表し、older sister, younger sister と分けて言うのは10回に1回くらいで、定番の言い方ではないかもしれません。
しかし、日本語の感覚で older sister, younger sister と表現しても別に会話に混乱は生まれません。
ですから、 「自分流の英語」 は悪いものではないのです。

(Yanni from Sweden, who served as our navigator from April to July, spoke American English, perhaps because she was trying to adjust to my needs, but basically European people, including her, speak American English. I use English in accordance with the sense of my mother tongue.)

(Personally, I am able to communicate comfortably with my colleagues who have been working with me for many years in Japan using Steve’s Japanese.)

(Recently, the recognition that “you don’t necessarily have to speak the same English as a native speaker” is spreading in various fields. For example, the IT field. A while ago, language databases and speech recognition were limited to American or British English, but now they support English from a variety of regions and countries, including Europe, Asia, and Africa. As a result, expressions that were once considered “wrong” now seem to be accumulating as “correct” English.)