Point 3 ”Do you have a minute?”　無料ビジネス英語学習

初級者向けビジネス英会話 Bizmates for beginners 第3弾は、”Do you have a minute?” です。

相手に話しかける際に使える表現です。

例えば、仕事中の同僚に話しかけたい場合、あなたならどう言いますか。

“Excuse me. Are you free now?”
といった言い方が思い浮かんだ人もいると思います。

これでも意味は通じますが、少しぎこちない印象になってしまいます。

こんな時には、

“Hika, do you have a minute?” 「ヒカ、今ちょっといい？」
と言うようにしましょう。

とてもナチュラルな表現になります！

Hello and welcome to this Bizmates for beginners
video series for Japanese businesspeople.

And today's question is do you have a minute?
Do you have a minute? OK.

Before we study this, let's do our test.

OK so I will ask you, how are you doing?

And you say, couldn't be better.
How about you? OK. Did you get that?

All right. So let's look at do you have a minute?
What does this mean?

OK. So let's imagine that Taro is my colleague.
OK and I am working now.

And Taro comes to me and he says,
ah excuse me. Are you free now?

Hmmm... and I say, ah yeah, sure.
OK. This is OK, excuse me. Are you free now?

Hmmm, it's an OK question but it's a
little bit unnatural, OK.

So to make it more natural,
we can say this.

OK so you can say, Hika, do you have a minute?
Just like that. Hika, do you have a minute?

And I'll say, yeah, sure. What is it?
Hmmm... very natural.

It's not are you free, but do you have a minute?
OK, let's look at pronunciation.

So it's not do you have, it's doya, doya hava.
Doya hava minute? You try.

OK one more time.
Do you have a minute?

Good. OK. Let's try, so you can start,
you can say, Hika, do you have a minute?

And I will say, sure. What is it?
OK so let's try, you can go. Go.

Sure. What is it?
OK, perfect. All right.

So for homework,
next time you start, you say,

Hika, do you have a minute?
And I will say, sure. What is it? Just like that.

OK so please review this and we'll see you next time.
Thank you.