VIP Class Notes (Tibo) [S]

Discussed the importance of languages and AI in the future

I don’t think Shanghainese / the Shanghai dialect is a language
For some companies if you don’t speak English you cannot get the offer.

I feel English will become very popular in China and under this situation if you work in Japanese company maybe you need to be trilingual
China is close to Japan and currently there are many Japanese companies in China so for this companies they need people can speak Japanese.
these countries most of people can speak English

you mean when people speaking you got some tools help you translate at the same time.
I still think language skills is very important.
Last time when I had a meeting with Spanish I am afraid I cant understand so before the meeting I opened the translator to try to translate at the same time when they were talking but the result was bad because they had a Spanish accent

I feel my listening was better than the app.
I tried to understand their speaking and I get most of the meaning because I knew the topic and I can guess what they were talking about.

a part of the reason is because they are good at English

For our company, our team is the office center of Asia pacific. We are going to take the job from Korea and Japan and we need to communicate with store colleagues so we need people can speak both Korean and Japanese.
In this case we need people can speak English , Chinese, Korean and Japanese. It is so hard to find people. If we just communicate with office people we just speak English it is enough but if we need to communicate with store colleagues it is hard for us. some of the Chinese who lived close to north of Korea they can speak Korean so we can find trilingual people but it is hard to find quad lingual people.

If your major is languages maybe you can speak several languages but we need to find people of the major is accountant.

if you want to be a key person you need to know both of the system and the accounting rules. So for key persons it will be hard because you need to know not only accounting but also system but if you are just a normal accountant maybe you don’t know very much about accounting you can also work on basic tasks. You just do day to day books. but you are easy to be replaced.

Maybe the jobs will not disappear but we just need less people.
For recent years a lot of supermarkets began to use check out machine / self check out. so they need less people than before but maybe after 20 years they just need 1.
Because currently there are still people cannot use machines but in the future it won’t be a problem.

I don’t think Shanghainese / the Shanghai dialect is a language  / can be counted as a language
For some companies if you don’t speak English you cannot get the offer. / they won’t hire you.

I feel English will become very popular in China and under this assumption if you work in  a Japanese company maybe you need to be trilingual
China is close to Japan and currently there are many Japanese companies in China so for this companies they need people who can speak Japanese.
in these countries most people can speak English

you mean when people are speaking you got some tools to help you translate at the same time. / do you mean that you can use a translator to understand what someone is saying
I still think language skills are very important.
Last time when I had a meeting with the Spanish team I was afraid I wouldn’t  understand so before the meeting I opened the translator to try to translate as they were talking but the result was bad because they had a Spanish accent

I feel my listening was better than the app.
I tried to understand their speaking/what they said and I got most of the meaning because I knew the topic and I could guess what they were talking about.

a part of the reason is because they are good at English

For our company, our team is the office center of Asia pacific. We are going to work on projects closely with Korea and Japan / we received projects from Korea and Japan  and we need to communicate with store colleagues so we need people who can speak both Korean and Japanese.
In this case we need people who can speak English , Chinese, Korean and Japanese. It is so hard to find candidates . If we just communicate with office people we just speak English it is enough but if we need to communicate with store colleagues it is hard for us. some of the Chinese who lived close to north of Korea can speak Korean so we can find trilingual people but it is hard to find quad lingual people.

If your major is languages maybe you can speak several languages but we need to find people whose major is accounting / but we need to find people with a major in accounting

Vocabulary

tax optimization  (n) : finding ways to legally pay as little in taxes as possible
Thanks to our tax optimization we saved a lot of money

tax evasion (n): hiding money to avoid taxes (illegal)
He went to jail for tax evasion

touch wood (v) : hope for good luck
We will still have a job in the future, touch wood.

future proof  (adj) : which won’t disappear in the future
Being a sales man is quite future proof.

high end (adj) : luxury / very expensive
I stayed in a high end hotel

to hide (v) to make something hard to see
He tried to hide his money in Panama

assumption (n) When you assume something will happen / making a prediction based on an if situation
under the assumption that English becomes necessary I decided to study English 5 years ago

scenario(n) something that happens
The model shows what will happen in 10 years under this scenario

to assume (v)
We assumed that sales would increase after the end of the lockdown

hotline (n) special number you call to get service
I called the hotline and an Indian person picked up

tourist (n) someone who travels
I met a Spanish tourist and I couldn’t understand his accent

tourism (n) travel industry
Tourism suffered from Covid 19

strategy (n) : plan
I have a good strategy to get a promotion

trilingual  (adj): able to speak 3 languages
Tom is trilingual, he speaks Chinese, English and Korean

expectation (n) what you want to see/ happen
The expectations of most companies in Shanghai is that you should at least speak Chinese and some English

to expect (v)
They expected all the candidates to speak English fluently

Grammar

 help + V / help to + V
I will help you finish
I will help you to finish