Name: 英語ボキャブラリー：運転 (ENGLISH VOCABULARY: DRIVING)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:06:10.000Z
Duration: 23 min 21 s
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We have shoulders, but also roads have shoulders.  A car has a spare tire, but also, person might have one too.

In this video, we’re going to go over a lot of vocabulary words for driving, and any alternate or idiomatic

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meanings they may have.  Even if you know some of these words, I’ll make sure you’re focusing on

the pronunciation of these words so that you’re understood and sound great when you say them.

So come road tripping with me and learn vocabulary.

One of the things that’s so important for pronunciation is stress.  Not just sounds.

So before I have you imitate a word, I’m going to break it down into stress and unstressed syllables.

For example, the first word, accelerate.  I’m going to move my hand like this for unstressed syllables,

and like this for stressed syllables.  Ac-- cel-- Ac-- cel--  Accelerate.

So copy those components of stress and do practice the words out loud.  Accelerate. Accelerate.

Unstressed syllables are shorter and flatter in pitch, and stressed syllables are longer and

the pitch goes up and down.  Ik-sel.  Accelerate.

I guarantee you focusing on stress will help your pronunciation. Accelerate means increasing speed.

The opposite in driving would be breaking, which is decreasing speed.

And the pedal for this is the accelerator.  That’s the noun.

The pronunciation is: ac-cel-er-ate. Notice the first C makes a K sound and the second C makes an S sound.

Accelerate. I’m making that a Stop T.  As the noun, accelerator, ra-ra-ra, accelerator.

The T becomes a flap T because it comes between two vowel/diphthong sounds.  Accelerate, accelerator.

Say those with me.  Accelerate.  Accelerator.

But they do happen frequently and can cause a major slowdown or delay.

A delay or slowdown, of course, is when you’re not able to drive as quickly as you'd like, or

maybe you can’t drive at all.  Maybe traffic is totally stopped.  You could say, ‘traffic is at a stand still’.

A slow down. Slow down. Slow down. Say that with me. Slow down.

Delay. De-lay. Delay. Say that with me. Delay.

Let's go back and talk about 'accident'. Ac-ci-dent. Just like with 'accelerate', the first C makes a K sound,

and the second, an S sound. Accident.  Ac-ci-dent. Say that with me.  Accident.

A term you'll hear in the US for an accident that isn't serious is a fender-bender.

The fender is the part of the car around the wheel, and a fender bender is when this, or any other part of the car

Someone drove into my car on the way to work.

Fender bender.  Fen-der ben-der.  Fender bender.  Say that with me.  Fender bender.

Well, all right. But don't be a backseat driver.

Two terms you heard there, tailgate, and backseat driver.

A tailgate is the back of a truck, the part that opens down.  That's the noun.

But as a verb, there are two different meanings.  One of them means to have a party beside your vehicle.

What?  What's that?  Why would you have a party beside your vehicle.  It's common in the United States

at sporting events especially American football, or some concerts, to arrive early and

have a party in the parking lot.  Is this common in your culture too, or is this a purely American thing?

It often involves grilling, it can get very elaborate, people bring tents, tables,

games, and there are even cookbooks dedicated to tailgating.

It's also really common for people to consume a lot of alcohol at a tailgate party.

But when driving, to tailgate means to follow the person ahead of you really closely - too closely.

When I'm driving, I hate being tailgated.

Here, I thought David was driving too closely to the car in front, so I told him not to tailgate that guy.

Compound word, first syllable stress. Tail-gate. Tailgate. Tailgate. Say that with me. Tailgate.

He then told me not to be a backseat driver.  Fair enough.

A backseat driver is when someone who is not driving, you don't have to be in the backseat,

you can also be in the front, tells the driver what to do or what not to do.  Pretty annoying if you're the driver.

This term can be used in other situations too, not just when you're driving, but anytime someone comments

on what you're doing, criticizes you, gives you unwanted advice.  For example, if David was commenting

on decisions I was making about my YouTube channel, without me asking for his advice,

and I didn't want him to, I could say, "Hey, David, I feel like you're backseat driving my videos."

Or, "you're being a backseat driver when it comes to my videos."

Back up - a car in reverse.  Notice how I connect those two words with the K.  Back up. Back up.

My life has gotten a lot easier since we bought a car with a backup camera.

Both of these words will feel stressed:  You're too far forward, you have to back up.

Back up. Back up. Say that with me. Back up. Back up.

>> You have somebody right in your blindspot.  >> What is this person doing?

That is the spot right next to you, just over your shoulder, where they won’t show up in your side mirror

or your rearview mirror. Notice I’m not saying the D there. Most people drop the D in this phrase,

so you can do it too to make it a little easier and to say and also to sound more natural.

Blind spot. Blind spot. More stress on the first word.

Blind spot. Blind spot. Say that with me.

Babe, if you slam on the brakes, the camera might go flying.

To brake, the verb, is the opposite of accelerate, and the term ‘slam on the brakes’ means to break very suddenly.

We have a BR cluster, you’ll want to be sure you go right from B into R, not buh-r, buh-r, but brr-- br--

Changing lanes really intimidated me when I learned how to drive.

Both have the AY diphthong, both are stressed.  That up-down shape. Change lanes. Change lanes.

Yeah. // Yeah, I would call this a country road.

A country road is a rural road, off the main highway, that goes, well, through the country.

This one is paved, but they can be gravel roads or dirt roads as well.

The thing  about this is it’s very common to make that a CHR. Ch-- Country. Ch, ch, ch. Country. Country road.

Country road. Country road. Say that with me.  Country road.

A crosswalk is something that is painted on the road that is meant to be a safe spot for pedestrians,

that is, people who are running or walking, to cross.  You might see a sign like this, saying that you must yield.

Crosswalk, that’s a compound word with stress on the first word. Notice the L in ‘walk’ is silent.

Crosswalk. Crosswalk. Say that with me. Crosswalk.

I know this can be really tricky for my students because it has the Y consonant before the EE vowel,