2017.12.06
英文メールの書き方：忘年会の出欠を取る
こんなシチュエーション、お仕事でありませんか？
迫り来る忘年会シーズン。大人数がきっちり収まる店が次々と予約で埋まっていく幹事としては、参加人数を早急に知りたい。全員に案内を送って、数日内に必ず返信してもらわないと！
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みなさま、
今年も残すところあとわずかとなりましたが、ビズメイツ従業員のみなさまと素敵なひと時を過ごせればと思い、12月21日19:00~ に毎年恒例の忘年会を予定しております。
年末はお出かけになる方もいらっしゃること、また全員が収まるお店を予約する必要があるため、8日までに必ず出欠をお知らせ下さい。
ちなみに当日は居酒屋とビールが主になります。
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Hello everyone, welcome to E-mail Picks.
We're in December now and I'm guessing
some of you already have a few year-end
parties scheduled on your calendars. Our
Japan team is having one too, later this
month. So, today I'm writing an e-mail to
all my colleagues to ask if they can
come. Now, I need to know how many people
can come as soon as possible because,
as I can imagine, it's getting harder to
reserve a place every day as we speak,
so in this e-mail I'm gonna ask everyone
to RSVP. "RSVP" is originally a French
phrase: réspondez s'il vous plaît, which
means "please reply."
So if I write RSVP by Friday, it means
please reply to tell me if you can come
or you cannot come by Friday. So let's see
what that e-mail looks like: Hello,
colleagues. As the year draws to a close,
we are planning our annual year-end
party, hoping to spend a wondrous magical
evening with the amazing Bizmates crew
on December 21st 7PM onwards. We need
to reserve a place where all of us can
fit as soon as possible and we
understand some of you will be out of
town to see your family then, so please
RSVP by the 8th. I hope you find beer in
izakaya wondrous and magical. Kyota.
So let's see what I've written here. In
the first sentence, I'm letting everyone
know the date and time. Very simple, and
I'm also trying to make the party sound
exciting by using words like "wondrous
and magical" -- I was watching a Disney
movie with my son last night. And, in the
second sentence, I'm asking everyone to
RSVP and of course, I wrote the reason.
And, finally in the final sentence, I'm
just making it clear that it will be
just a regular year-end party, so that
nobody will come over-dressed or
anything. So there's my invitation,
hopefully we'll see many people at the
party. So that's it for today, thank you
for watching as always, and I'll see you
next week. See you later.
We're in December now and I'm guessing
some of you already have a few year-end
parties scheduled on your calendars. Our
Japan team is having one too, later this
month. So, today I'm writing an e-mail to
all my colleagues to ask if they can
come. Now, I need to know how many people
can come as soon as possible because,
as I can imagine, it's getting harder to
reserve a place every day as we speak,
so in this e-mail I'm gonna ask everyone
to RSVP. "RSVP" is originally a French
phrase: réspondez s'il vous plaît, which
means "please reply."
So if I write RSVP by Friday, it means
please reply to tell me if you can come
or you cannot come by Friday. So let's see
what that e-mail looks like: Hello,
colleagues. As the year draws to a close,
we are planning our annual year-end
party, hoping to spend a wondrous magical
evening with the amazing Bizmates crew
on December 21st 7PM onwards. We need
to reserve a place where all of us can
fit as soon as possible and we
understand some of you will be out of
town to see your family then, so please
RSVP by the 8th. I hope you find beer in
izakaya wondrous and magical. Kyota.
So let's see what I've written here. In
the first sentence, I'm letting everyone
know the date and time. Very simple, and
I'm also trying to make the party sound
exciting by using words like "wondrous
and magical" -- I was watching a Disney
movie with my son last night. And, in the
second sentence, I'm asking everyone to
RSVP and of course, I wrote the reason.
And, finally in the final sentence, I'm
just making it clear that it will be
just a regular year-end party, so that
nobody will come over-dressed or
anything. So there's my invitation,
hopefully we'll see many people at the
party. So that's it for today, thank you
for watching as always, and I'll see you
next week. See you later.
