Easy Japanese for Work — Season 1, Episode 22: Identifying your chance to speak at a meeting

Episode synopsis

Today: identifying your chance to speak at a meeting. Timothy James Mahrt, from the United States, works at an IT firm in Tokyo. He helps develop software used for website translation. Though he has no trouble chatting in Japanese with colleagues over lunch, he sometimes finds it hard to follow meetings held in Japanese. For this reason, he has difficulty finding the right time to speak up. To improve, he takes on a roleplay challenge and gets advice from business Japanese experts.

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More episodes from Season 1

• E1Communicating a sense of gratitude
• E2How to politely ask someone to repeat something
• E3Expressing an opinion concisely
• E4How to make explanations using photos and other materials
• E5Relaying messages
• E6Obtaining permission
• E7Making apologies
• E8Making suggestions
• E9Asking questions using keego
• E10Offering support
• E11Asking how to pronounce names
• E12Asking for clarification