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”

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。

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