Diary 2023-04-20

• If the language barrier is eliminated, about 10 times as many Japanese speakers will find value in this Scrapbox.
• I thought I could proceed a little more leisurely, but the world was changing faster than I thought it would, and that’s how I feel in 2023.
• Proceed pScrapboxAutoTrans2023-04-18.

Today’s English conversation lesson

• bad: “there is no rail in a real conversation”

  • There is no expectable context in a real conversation

• He has many things in his hands

• (For scattered document) We need to gather the documents.

• (For cables) They are tangled.

  • We need to untangle the cables.

• He has problem using the copy machine.

  • Bad: problem to use
    • Reason: the problem is already happened.

• We need to tell him where he can get papers.

• He was surprised to see the problem.

• We can not help him with that.

• I’ll ask for the password.

  • I’ll get the password for you.

• I’ll get someone to help you in 10 minutes.

• “hit the wall” is natural American English

• just for fun / just my hobby

• welder (person) / weld (verb)

• courier

  • package
  • luggage is usually a bag of traveller

• I’m expecting a call

• I’m expected to do that

• Will I be expected to do that?

• Will I be expected to have a sales quota?

  • norma is not natural English
    • I see, it is from Russian
      • https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/норма#Russian
  • hit the target

• take a survey

  • survey is big
  • Will I be expected to collect feedbacks from customers?

• book a flight

  • “appointment” is usually mean to meet person
    • formal
  • When you’ll meet with friends, say “I have plans for lunch”

• He’ll be angry / He’ll might get angry.

• Diary 2023-04-19 ← Diary 2023-04-20 → Diary 2023-04-21 100 days ago Diary 2023-01-10. 1 year ago Diary 2022-04-20.

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