Tip 101 “I’m all ears.”　無料ビジネス英語学習

無料ビジネス英語学習 Words & Phrases 第101弾は、“I’m all ears.” です。

大切な話をしているときに、きちんと話しを聞いていること相手に示すことって大切ですよね。

例えば、同僚との会話で、

“Can I talk to you about something?”
「ちょっと大事な話があるんですけど、いいですか？」と、声をかけられて、
「はい、しっかり聞いていますよ。」と、自分が聞いていることを相手に伝える場合に、
あなたなら何と言いますか？

“I’m listening carefully to you”
と言った場合、「『注意深く』聞いています。」となり非常に堅苦しく、ちょっと不自然に聞こえます。

こんな場面ではもっと相手にわかりやすく、

“I’m all ears.”
「ちゃんと聞いていますよ。」と言ってみましょう。
日本語に直訳すると「全身が耳になっちゃったよ。」となり、ユーモア溢れる表現ですね。

一気に続けて流れるように言うのがコツですので、ぜひビデオで発音をチェックしてください。

Hello and welcome to this Bizmates words and phrases
video series for Japanese businesspeople.

And today's sentence is I'm all ears.
I'm all ears.

What does this mean?
Let's find out.

OK. But first, let's do our test. And my question is,
what do you have a gut feeling about?

OK. Intuition.
Just a feeling something's gonna happen.

You have a gut feeling that
you're gonna get a promotion.

You have a gut feeling that
this year's gonna be a great year for you.

OK. You don't need reasons,
it's just a gut feeling.

OK. I hope you came up with a good answer.

OK. Let's go on to today's phrase.
I'm all ears. What does this mean?

OK. Well let's imagine,
Taro's my colleague.

And I have something important to discuss
with Taro. OK. So I go up to Taro

and say, Taro can I talk to you about something important?

OK. This is something important,
I want you to listen.

And Taro says,
yes, I am listening carefully to you.

OK. You're listening care...
It's a little bit unnatural.

I'm listening carefully to you.
Because, I don�ft know.

We usually don't tell the other person,
I'm listening carefully, OK. It's...

maybe you are, but we don't really
need to tell them. OK.

It's just sounds unnatural.
So what could you say in that situation?

Because Taro wants to show me
that he is listening. Yeah I'm listening yeah.

OK. In this case, we say this.

So if I say,
Can I talk to you about something important?

You could just say,
yeah, I'm all ears.

Just like that. I'm all ears.
It means I'm listening carefully to you.

OK. But it's a natural way of saying it.
OK. Let's look at pronunciation.

I'mallears. I'mallears.
Just like one word. I'mallears.

You try.

OK. Let's try it with my sentence or my question.
Can I talk to you about something important?

OK. Did you get that?
Very natural. OK.

So next time, you want to tell someone you're listening.
You say, I'm all ears. OK.

All right. So for homework.
Next time I see you,

I'm gonna say,
hey, can I talk to you about something important?

And you just say,
I'm all ears.

OK. So we'll see you in the next lesson.
Thank you.