Mandarin · Business meeting
Speak Mandarin for your business meeting — before it happens.
In a Beijing or Shanghai conference room, mixing up 了 and 过 in a five-word status update can flip "we shipped it" into "we have shipped before" — investors notice, the deal sags, and you will never know why. The wrong measure word on a noun you cannot backtrack is the same meeting your counterpart remembered six months later.
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What you'll practice
- Open the meeting with 大家好 (formal) and warm it up with a quick 请多关照 — read the room
- Use 了 and 过 correctly in status updates — "我们上个月完成了…" vs. "我们以前做过…"
- Disagree without losing face — 请允许我提一点小小的建议, comma, then your observation in one sentence
- Close with clear next steps and ownership — 请王总…跟进, 请张总…确认, please-attach-the-owner-to-the-action
A real exchange
请王总介绍一下上个月的进展。
Please introduce last month’s progress.
我们上个个月完成了新项目。
We completed new project last month.
"上个月"已经是一个词了，不要说"上个个月"。"新项目"前面要有量词。请改正。
"Last month" is one word. "New project" needs a measure word before it. Please correct.
我们上个月完成了这个新项目，核心功能全部交付。
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