Bizmates初級ビジネス英会話 Point 130 ”talk shop”

初級者向けビジネス英会話 Bizmates for beginners 第130弾は、”talk shop” です。

勤務中以外の時間や、職場以外の場所で仕事の話をされるのは嫌、
という方が多いのではないでしょうか。
今回は、そんな方にとって知っていると便利な表現をご紹介します。

ヒカとタロウは、職場の仲間と飲み会の真っ最中。皆で楽しいひとときを過ごしています。
そんな中、ヒカはタロウに話し掛けました。

“Taro, I want to talk to you about our project.”
「タロウ、僕達のプロジェクトの件だけど。。」

「ヒカ、今は仕事の話は止めようよ。」と言いたい場合、あたながタロウなら何と言いますか？

“Please don’t talk about work now. ”

これでも伝わりますが、こんな時、”talk shop”を使うと
ネイティブが使う自然な英語表現になるんです。

そこで、
“Let’s not talk shop.”

と言ってみましょう！とても自然な表現です。

発音もビデオでチェック！
ぜひこの表現を使ってみてください。

Hello and welcome to this Bizmates for
beginners video series

and today's idiom is

talk shop.

It's not shopping. And this is a
business idiom.

What does this mean?
We will find out

but first let's do our test.
So I ask you:

So, what does your brother do?
What's his business?

And you say...
That's right

We're in the same line of work.

Perfect. OK very natural --
In the same line of work.

OK, let's go on to today's idiom

talk shop.

Now let's imagine that Taro and I

are at a drinking party,
like a company drinking party.

Everyone's drinking, everyone's

having a good time and I say:

Taro, I want to talk to you about our project.

OK, this is a drinking party.
Taro doesn't want to talk about work.

Right? We're having a good time.

So Taro says:

Please don't talk about work now. OK?

The sentence is OK.
Please don't talk about work now.

But a very natural way to say this
is to use this idiom

talk shop
which means to talk about work.

And we often use it like this --
so I say:

You know, I want to talk to you about our project.

And Taro says:

Let's not talk shop.

Very natural!
So in a situation, like an event

or party where you shouldn't
talk about business

if someone talks about business

we often say this:
Let's not talk shop.

It's a very natural expression.
Let's not talk shop.

Let's not talk about work now.
Have a good time.

OK, let's look at pronunciation, its...

Let'snot... Let'snot talk shop.
Let'snot talk shop.

Good.
OK, with my sentence:

I want to talk to you about our project.

OK, I won't talk about work.

Perfect.
OK, for homework next time I will say:

You know, I want to talk to you about our project.

And you say...

Let's not talk shop.

OK, please remember this

and we will see you next time.
Thank you.