French Lesson Management Terminology is Chapter 59 in Hands Free Business French and these free French lessons. Its well worth having a listen to the full audiobook which is designed to work through ALL of these French lessons from this website, and you will hear the correct pronunication from a native French speaker. Please click through for the audiobook here
“managerial”: « managérial »
Common Management Terminology Lesson in French for Business
“You need to make a managerial decision, it’s your job.”
« Tu dois prendre une décision managériale, c’est ton rôle. »
“need to”: « devoir »
In this case we’re not going to use « avoir besoin de » because it’s an external obligation, so we use « devoir ».
“to make a decision”: « prendre une decision ».
Be careful here. “to make” should be « faire ».
But in this case, it’s a set phrase and we always say « prendre une decision ».
Many times, with set phrases, the main verb is going to change according to the specific image that the language uses.
“it’s your job”: « c’est ton rôle » or « c’est ton travail ».
“job” literally means « travail », but in this case it’s more accurate to describe someone’s role, someone’s duty.
Let’s break them down, these 3 notions, 3 shades of moral obligation: “job”, “role” and “duty ”.
“a job” is « un travail ».
“a role” is « un rôle ».
“a duty” is « un devoir ».
Here is the full sentence again:
“You need to make a managerial decision, it’s your job.”
« Tu dois prendre une décision managériale, c’est ton rôle. »
So there are a lot of nuances and ways of saying things in French Business Parlance and we hope that free French lessons like this one will give you some ideas and new skills. Its a lot of fun to put these French Lessons for Business together with Eric Baron, and we look forward to hearing from you. There are a number of other Business French lessons like this one and we would recommend you chek some out like this one here
