Japanese · Business meeting
Speak Japanese for your business meeting — before it happens.
In a Tokyo conference room, ending a status update with the wrong form — です/ます dropping into plain — accidentally signals you are no longer treating the room as the room you opened it with. Saying "できます" instead of "いたします" at a keigo-trailing moment is the kind of slip your Japanese counterpart will catch, mirror back politely, and remember in your review file.
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What you'll practice
- Open with 本日はお集まりいただきありがとうございます, then a single-line agenda
- Status update in 〜しました for completed work and 〜しております for ongoing items
- Decline a request politely without flat "いいえ" — 恐れ入りますが + alternative, never just "できない"
- Close with attached owners — 〇〇さんがご担当いただけますでしょうか, then よろしいでしょうか for confirmation
A real exchange
本日の進捗をお聞かせいただけますでしょうか。
Could you share today's progress?
先週、機能を完了しました。
Last week, I completed the feature.
丁寧さは良いですが、"機能を完了"は少し直訳的です。「機能をリリースいたしました」の方が自然に響きます。もう一度。
Politeness is good, but '機能を完了' sounds like a translation. '機能をリリースいたしました' sounds native. Once more.
先週、新機能をリリースいたしました。来週からテストに入る予定です。
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