冠詞 articleに悩まされる

こんにちは、たらです。

冠詞の話とwriting

英語学習で絶対ぶち当たる壁の一つ「冠詞問題」
日本語にないじゃないですが、冠詞って・・・我々には馴染みのない世界
a または an または the または冠詞がつかないケースがあって、
あり/なしによっては文全体の意味も変わってしまいます。

冠詞の用法もGeneral Rule はあるのですが、場合によっては例外もあるのが言語の世界。従って最終的にはネイティブの感覚を身につけるしかないのですが。（身も蓋もない）

冠詞を使いこなせているかどうかを測定するためにオススメなのがwritingです。
日記など自分が書きたいテーマに沿って150~200 words 程度の英文を書いてみましょう。そして必ずネイティブにチェックしてもらいましょう。

私がよく間違えるポイントは、

• 冠詞不要なのにつけている

• 冠詞が抜けている

• 不定冠詞と定冠詞を間違える

• 複数/単数の間違い

日記はこんな感じで書いています。

修正前

Last weekend my friend came to Japan from Canada and we had dinner together with other friends.

Since the covid spread over the world and we had to avoid seeing people in person, I started to join the online community. The community is about the financial independence. Nowadays There are so many Community online and I chose this community because I work for an airline and during a pandemic our sales has dropped significantly and our salary was cut. so I was
wondering if I should change the job or if I should start my side business besides the office worker job.
Also many events were cancelled and working remotely becomes our stander now. So I have enough time to join the online community.

The community founder, he believes that not only the money but good company is also important so he encouraged the community member to connect to each other. I join the small community for people who want to learn English.
We had a chat only online for a year and this was the first time we meet face-to-face. We spent so much time together through online meeting and our interests are close, so as soon as we met, we were like old friends. that’s the one thing I appreciate Covid.

修正版

Last weekend my friend came to Japan from Canada and we had dinner together with other friends.

Since the (the いらない)   covid spread over the world and we had to avoid seeing people in person, I started to join the online community. The community is about financial independence. Nowadays There are so many communities online and I chose this one or group (communityの繰り返しを避ける)because I work for an airline and during the （theがいる）pandemic our sales have dropped significantly and our salary was cut. so I was wondering if I should change my（冠詞抜け） job or if I should start my side business besides the office worker job.
Also many events were canceled and working remotely becomes our standard now. So I have enough time to join the online community.

The community founder, he believes that not only the （theいらない）money but good company is also important so he encouraged the community members to connect with/to（withのほうが自然） each other. I joined the small community for people who want to learn English.
We had a chat only online for a year and this was the first time we met face-to-face. We spent so much time together through online meetings and our interests are close, so as soon as we met, we were like old friends. that’s the one thing I appreciate Covid.

会話だとネイティブも適切なタイミングで間違いをフィードバックするのが難しいので、ぜひwritingをチェックしてもらうことから始めるのをおすすめします。

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とても説明がわかりやすく、シンプルな英語で記載されているので一通り学校英語を勉強された方は理解しやすいと思います。

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/a1-a2-grammar/articles-1

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/a1-a2-grammar/articles-2