#81 - 英語のビジネス用語を訳してみた | Translating English business phrases

Welcome back to another episode of Being Americanized Japanese.


This is Reona, and this is Abe! A podcast where Reona talks in
日本語 and Abe talks in English.





[Timestamps]


“ReonaとAbeのcheck in time” - n/a


"What's going on in America” - n/a


Main Topic -2:29





[English]


In this week’s episode, we don’t have a “check-in” nor a “what’s
going on in America” segment. As for the main topic for this
week, we will talk about business English terms and go over the
meanings of each. We will also give examples of the causal
English term for each business term.


Action item


Formal: “Today I have so many action items to do”


casual: These are the things I have to do.





Sync up


Formal: “We need to sync up so we can understand what each other
are doing” “can we sync up?”


Casual: “Let’s catch up soon”





Pivot


Formal: “This project is going downhill, we need to pivot and
take it in a better direction”


Casual: “Hey, let’s change the subject” “but anyways” “Let’s do
something else”





The best practices


Formal: “yeah, we’re not doing the best practices right now, so
we need to do something different”


Casual: “the best way of doing this” “How do you do this?”





Moving parts


Formal: “Right now it’s very difficult because there are so many
moving parts”


Casual: “There are a lot of things that need to be done” “There
are a lot of things happening” 





Reaching out


Formal: “Thanks for reaching out”


Casual: “Thanks for contacting me” ”Thanks for hitting me up”





Roadblocks


Formal: “There are many roadblocks” “There will be many
roadblocks”


Casual: “There were so many things that slowed us down” “a lot of
shit went down”





Pin in this


Formal: “Let’s put a pin in this” “we have to continue on this
meeting, so for this topic let’s put a pin in this”


Casual: “we’ll come back to it”





We’ll circle back


Formal: “we’ll circle back to this topic”


Casual: “we’ll come back to this”





Punt


Formal: “Let’s punt this for later”


Casual: “Let’s push this back to later”





Capacity


Formal: “I don’t have the capacity to handle this right
now”
Casual: “I don’t have the time to do it” “I don’t have the time”





Touch base


Formal: “Let’s touch base soon” “Let’s touch base again”


Casual: “We have to talk again” “We should see each other again”





it’s all in one product


Formal: “This is all in one product” “Our system is all in one
product” “Our machine is all in one product”


Casual: “It’s has everything” “it’s all in one” “it can do
everything”





Scales with me


Formal: “I want something that scales with me”


Casual: “it grows with me”





Agile


Formal: “I am agile, I can handle multiple projects” “Our team
agile. We can handle a lot of different changes”


Causal: “flexible”





[日本語]


今週のエピソードは、「チェックイン」も「What’s going on in America」のセグメントはありません。
今週のメイントピックは、ビジネス英語とそれぞれの意味についてお話します。 また、各ビジネス用語の日常用語の例も紹介します。





[Connect with Us]


Email: beingamericanizedjapanese@gmail.com


Instagram: amejapa_official


clubhouse: @reona_nmr @abe_stun


https://profile.ameba.jp/ameba/minkipedia/


お待ちしてます!