Meetings with Chinese colleagues: Mandarin phrases with pinyin
You walk into a small meeting room at your office in Shanghai. A friendly colleague is already there, getting ready.
How the conversation starts
小李 (Xiao Li) · a young colleague
Greet colleagues at a meeting
What you do
- Greet your colleague
- Introduce yourself by name
- Say you are happy to meet them
What to say
- 你好！Nǐ hǎo!Hello!
- 我叫___。Wǒ jiào ___.My name is ___.
- 我是新来的。Wǒ shì xīn lái de.I'm new here.
- 很高兴认识你。Hěn gāoxìng rènshi nǐ.Nice to meet you.
Introduce yourself in a team meeting
It's your first day at a company in Beijing. In the morning team meeting, the team leader asks you to introduce yourself. Later someone speaks too fast and you need to ask them to repeat it.
What you do
- Greet the team and say your name
- Say what you'll be working on
- Ask someone to say it again (they spoke too fast)
What to say
- 大家好！我叫___。Dàjiā hǎo! Wǒ jiào ___.Hi everyone! My name is ___.
3 more sentences in this lesson, in the app.
Meeting: disagree politely
It's a team meeting at a company in Beijing. Your manager plans to launch the new app version on October 15th, but testing isn't finished and you think that's too rushed. You'd suggest two weeks later, and you could help with testing. In Chinese workplaces, disagreeing gently and with reasons matters.
What you do
- Give your view on the launch date, politely disagreeing
- Give a reason and suggest an alternative
- She asks you to send the meeting notes: say when you'll send them
What to say
- 我有一个不同的看法：十五号上线有点太赶了。Wǒ yǒu yí ge bù tóng de kànfǎ: shíwǔ hào shàngxiàn yǒudiǎn tài gǎn le.I see it a bit differently: launching on the 15th is a little rushed.
4 more sentences in this lesson, in the app.
Now say it out loud
In Kaiko, 小李 (Xiao Li) answers you out loud in Chinese, and a coach corrects you as you go.