2015.04.10
Bizmates初級ビジネス英会話 Point 86 ”between jobs”
初級者向けビジネス英会話 Bizmates for beginners 第86弾は、”between jobs” です。
転職活動中等、仕事をしない期間ってありますよね。
今回はそんな場面で使える表現を紹介します。
例えば、ヒカは元同僚のヨシについて、
「How is Yoshi doing？」と同僚のタロウに聞きました。
「求職中だよ。」と返答したい場合、あなたがタロウなら英語で何と言いますか？
“He has no job now.”「彼は失業中です。」
でも伝わりますが、直接的でネガティブな印象を与える可能性がありますので気を付けましょう。
そこで、
“He’s between jobs now.”「求職中だよ。」
と言ってみましょう。自然な表現です。
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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 between jobs. Between jobs.
What does this mean? Wwe will find out but first
let's do our test. Okay so I'm looking
for Mr. Sasaki.
I don't know what he looks like. And I
say hey
what what does Mr. Sasaki look like?
is he tall? Is he short?
And you say not he's a fat man.
but there you go.
He's a portly man. Much softer.
Okay I hope you got that. Let's go to
today's
idiom, between jobs.
Okay here's what I usually hear. OK.
So let's imagine Yoshi, Yoshi is an
old colleague of ours and
Yoshi quit our company. And
I haven't seen him for for a few months.
So I say taro, how is Yoshi doing?
I haven't seen him for a while. And Taro says
Ah yeah, he has no job now.
Hmm.
It's a little bit strong. He has, he has no job.
I hope he's okay. Okay so
jobless or unemployed. It's not such a
good word
to use. So what's a more natural and a
softer way
to say this. A more positive way. Like
this.
So I say Taro, how's Yoshi doing?
I haven't seen him for a while. And he says
yeah, he's between jobs now.
Ah, I see. He's between jobs now. So he's
looking for new work okay.
I hope he finds a good job. It's perfect.
Very natural. Very positive. Soft. Okay
let's practice pronunciation.
It's he's between jobs now.
Jobs now. He's between jobs now. You try.
Good. With my question.
So how is Yoshi doing? Perfect.
Okay for homework. Next time I'm going to
ask you,
I'm going to say how's Yoshi doing? And you say
not he has no job now. But
he's between jobs now.
Okay please remember this and we'll see
you
next time. Thank you.
beginners
video series and today's idiom
is between jobs. Between jobs.
What does this mean? Wwe will find out but first
let's do our test. Okay so I'm looking
for Mr. Sasaki.
I don't know what he looks like. And I
say hey
what what does Mr. Sasaki look like?
is he tall? Is he short?
And you say not he's a fat man.
but there you go.
He's a portly man. Much softer.
Okay I hope you got that. Let's go to
today's
idiom, between jobs.
Okay here's what I usually hear. OK.
So let's imagine Yoshi, Yoshi is an
old colleague of ours and
Yoshi quit our company. And
I haven't seen him for for a few months.
So I say taro, how is Yoshi doing?
I haven't seen him for a while. And Taro says
Ah yeah, he has no job now.
Hmm.
It's a little bit strong. He has, he has no job.
I hope he's okay. Okay so
jobless or unemployed. It's not such a
good word
to use. So what's a more natural and a
softer way
to say this. A more positive way. Like
this.
So I say Taro, how's Yoshi doing?
I haven't seen him for a while. And he says
yeah, he's between jobs now.
Ah, I see. He's between jobs now. So he's
looking for new work okay.
I hope he finds a good job. It's perfect.
Very natural. Very positive. Soft. Okay
let's practice pronunciation.
It's he's between jobs now.
Jobs now. He's between jobs now. You try.
Good. With my question.
So how is Yoshi doing? Perfect.
Okay for homework. Next time I'm going to
ask you,
I'm going to say how's Yoshi doing? And you say
not he has no job now. But
he's between jobs now.
Okay please remember this and we'll see
you
next time. Thank you.
