Maudric
W2
The Japanese office
日本のオフィス
Business email, reporting to your boss, meetings, the office phone, client visits, deadlines and approval, mistakes and after-work drinks.
Office Japanese that every industry shares: writing work email, reporting the Japanese way (報連相), taking part in meetings, answering the phone for the company, visiting clients and exchanging cards, deadlines and the approval chain, owning a mistake, and the parties after work. It's best after Everyday Japanese 5–6, uses polite and humble forms throughout, and builds on Life in Japan 8 and 22 without repeating them.
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This course opens on 24 May 2027.
- W201Business emailFrom 24 May 2027Recipients, cc, forwarding, cushion words and the lines you'll see in every email.
- W202Reporting to your bossFrom 24 May 2027報連相: progress, problems, forecasts and conclusion first.
- W203MeetingsFrom 24 May 2027Minutes, agreeing and disagreeing politely, taking things away and action items.
- W204The phone at workFrom 24 May 2027Answering for the company, putting calls through, hold, messages and reading back.
- W205Visiting clientsFrom 24 May 2027Appointments, reception, business cards, seating, quotes and going straight home.
- W206Deadlines and approvalFrom 24 May 2027Delivery dates, bringing work forward or pushing it back, 稟議, 決裁 and groundwork.
- W207Mistakes and after workFrom 24 May 2027Owning a mistake, cause and fix, then welcome parties, organisers and the second round.
- W208ReviewFrom 24 May 202730 sentences from the whole course, mixed up for the walking drill.