2014.03.10
Tip 83 ”When it comes to…” 無料ビジネス英語学習
無料ビジネス英語学習 Words & Phrases 第83弾は、”When it comes to…” です。
何について話しているか、テーマを明らかにすることは、内容の理解を深めるために大切なことですよね。
今日は、会話のテーマを明確にするために非常によく使われるフレーズをご紹介します。
例えば、フットサルに詳しいあなたが同僚から、
“So, tell me about futsal.” 「フットサルについて教えてよ」
と、質問を受けて、「フットサルというのは、チームワークが全てなんだよ」
と、フットサル全般を指して話そうとするとき、あなたは何と言っていますか？
“About futsal, teamwork is everything.”
日本人の多くが文頭から”About”を使って「～について」と言ってしまうことがありますが、
文頭で”About”を使うのは、特定の何かについて話す場合であるため、
この場合は不自然な印象を受けてしまいます。
ぜひこんなシーンでは、”When it comes to ” 「～というものは / ～に関して言うと」の表現を使って、
“When it comes to futsal, teamwork is everything.”
と言ってみましょう。会話のテーマが明確に伝わる非常にナチュラルな表現になります。
ぜひこちらの表現を覚えておいてください！
Hello and welcome to this Bizmates words and phrases
video series for Japanese businesspeople.
And today's expression is
when it comes to...
Hmmm. We have simple words there.
When it comes to.
But it has some kind of a special meaning.
OK, so let's learn this today.
But first, let's do our test. So tell me someone
you count on when you need help.
Who's that person that you rely on? Yeah.
You have, you know,
some stress. Who do you go to to get help?
OK, you need money, who do you go to to get money?
OK. You need counseling, who do you go to
to get counseling? Who do you count on? Rely on?
OK, I hope you gave me a good answer.
OK, let's go on to the next phrase, today's phrase.
When it comes to. OK.
What does this mean? This is what I often hear.
Let's imagine Taro and I are colleagues.
Taro likes futsal.
You know futsal? It's like the mini-soccer.
Futsal yeah.
And I say, you know, Taro I don't know
about futsal. Tell me about futsal. Tell me about it.
And Taro says,
ah, about futsal, hmm teamwork is everything.
I was like, about futsal teamwork...
Oh OK OK, I understand.
I can understand this.
He's talking about futsal.
When we talked about futsal,
teamwork is very important yeah.
But about futsal, starting a sentence like that
is really strange, it's really unnatural.
About futsal. But I hear a lot of Japanese people
say this. About playing the piano.
About music. About Japanese company.
It sounds really strange.
What should you say? Well, in that case if I say,
tell me about futsal.
You can say, hmmm...
when it comes to futsal, teamwork is everything.
Isn't that nice? Very natural. It means when
I'm talking about or when we talk about
futsal, teamwork is very important.
When it comes to. When it comes to futsal.
OK. So let's look at pronunciation.
It's whenit, whenit comes
to futsal, when it comes to futsal,
teamwork is everything.
Teamworkiseverything. We can put
all those things together.
video series for Japanese businesspeople.
And today's expression is
when it comes to...
Hmmm. We have simple words there.
When it comes to.
But it has some kind of a special meaning.
OK, so let's learn this today.
But first, let's do our test. So tell me someone
you count on when you need help.
Who's that person that you rely on? Yeah.
You have, you know,
some stress. Who do you go to to get help?
OK, you need money, who do you go to to get money?
OK. You need counseling, who do you go to
to get counseling? Who do you count on? Rely on?
OK, I hope you gave me a good answer.
OK, let's go on to the next phrase, today's phrase.
When it comes to. OK.
What does this mean? This is what I often hear.
Let's imagine Taro and I are colleagues.
Taro likes futsal.
You know futsal? It's like the mini-soccer.
Futsal yeah.
And I say, you know, Taro I don't know
about futsal. Tell me about futsal. Tell me about it.
And Taro says,
ah, about futsal, hmm teamwork is everything.
I was like, about futsal teamwork...
Oh OK OK, I understand.
I can understand this.
He's talking about futsal.
When we talked about futsal,
teamwork is very important yeah.
But about futsal, starting a sentence like that
is really strange, it's really unnatural.
About futsal. But I hear a lot of Japanese people
say this. About playing the piano.
About music. About Japanese company.
It sounds really strange.
What should you say? Well, in that case if I say,
tell me about futsal.
You can say, hmmm...
when it comes to futsal, teamwork is everything.
Isn't that nice? Very natural. It means when
I'm talking about or when we talk about
futsal, teamwork is very important.
When it comes to. When it comes to futsal.
OK. So let's look at pronunciation.
It's whenit, whenit comes
to futsal, when it comes to futsal,
teamwork is everything.
Teamworkiseverything. We can put
all those things together.
