Unit1 Chapter2 Topic2　程度の良し悪し表現 　A1レベル

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【Chapter2の文章】
A: How many languages do you speak?
B: I speak Japanese, English, Mandarin and a little Korean.
A: Do you speak English well?
B: Yes, I do. I speak well but I don’t understand very well.
A: And, do you speak Mandarin?
B: Yes. I speak pretty well.
A: And, do you write Mandarin?
B: Yes, I write very well.
A: What about German?
B: I read a little because it is similar to English, but I don’t understand because German people speak very fast. I speak it badly. Speaking German is very difficult for me because I don’t know words. How about you? What languages do you speak?
A: I speak a couple of languages. For example, English, Vietnamese, Indonesian…

【文章中のトピック】
①個数を尋ねる表現とその返答 → How many languages do you speak?　
②程度の良し悪し表現 → I speak a little Korean. / Do you speak English well? / but I don’t understand very well.　(本記事で取り上げる)
③Yes/No疑問文の作り方とその返答 → Do you speak English well? — Yes. / Yes, I do.
④前の文章の理由を説明する表現 → I don’t understand because German people speak very fast. / Speaking German is very difficult for me because I don’t know words.
⑤前の文章と逆のことを言う表現 → I speak well but I don’t understand very well. / I read a little because it is similar to English, but I don’t understand because German people speak very fast.
⑥「〜することは…だ」の表現 → Speaking German is very difficult for me because I don’t know words.
⑦「何の～をする？」の表現 → What languages do you speak?

【本記事で取り上げるトピック】②程度の良し悪し表現
◉I speak a little Korean. / Do you speak English well? / but I don’t understand very well.
【程度の良し悪し表現】
以下の副詞が使えます。
「完璧に」　　perfectly/’pəːfektli/
「ほぼ完璧に・非常に上手く」 very well, pretty well/'priti wel/,
fairly well/’feəːli/, quite well/kwait/, almost perfectly/’oːlmoust/
「上手く」      well
「少し」      a little + 言語, a little bit of + 言語 /littl/
「良くなく」     I don’t speak/understand/know + 言語 + very well.
「悪く」      badly /'badli/
「非常に悪く・酷く」   very badly, pretty badly, fairly badly, quite badly, terribly /'terəbli/
「全くできない」    I don’t speak/understand/know + 言語 + at all. , absolutely terribly /'absəluːtli/
【例文】
I speak English perfectly.
You speak English very well.
You speak English well.
I know a little English.
I don’t understand English very well.
I write English badly.
I speak English pretty badly.
I don’t know English at all.
・very, pretty, fairlyなどの後ろに、何らかの形容詞や副詞をつけるとその形容詞や副詞の度合いを強めることができます。
「very/pretty/fairly + 形容詞/副詞」
(Eg: very good, pretty nice, fairly well)

【単語】
very (副) とても
pretty (副) とても
fairly (副) とても
understand (動) 理解する、分かる
know (動) 知る

本記事は以上です。ありがとうございました。