French

Hear an offer in detail, ask what it means in practice, and accept a condition before you accept the rest.

Report what someone told you, what you answered, and what they asked you, with the tenses that shift.

Announce news to a team, pass on what someone asked you to say, and commit to a date without promising more.

Open, state the purpose, make a request and close a formal email, the French way.

Follow a formal meeting where things are said in the passive, confirm, count pages and ask the one question that matters.

Go through accounts with someone, say what has been paid and what remains to pay, and use percentages.

Talk about a contract with someone who works for you, say what will be renewed and on what condition, and report a question someone asked.

Handle a parent who has heard a rumour, report what people say with on m'a dit que and il parait que, and stay calm and firm.

Pass on a rumour without vouching for it, using the conditional, and ask where it came from.

Follow the formal words of a signing, hand something over, and ask what changes concretely.

Run a meeting as the boss, announce decisions in the passive, ask who decided, and say what you would like each person to do.

Report what you said and what you had promised, admit you were wrong, and say how the next decision will be made.

Run a job interview, ask someone about their career path and their reasons, and ask when they could start.

Write a formal job offer, announce good news the official way, and set dates and conditions.

React to a competitor's move, say what you were told, and decide what you will and won't do.

Take an official call, say what must be displayed and when it will be, and end the call properly.

Report what a letter says, say what someone is complaining about, and decide how to answer.

Write a formal apology, thank someone for their frankness, and say what is going to change instead of explaining what went wrong.

Talk about a quote, prices before tax, delivery dates and payment terms, and know what to ask for.

Report that someone is leaving and why, say what you could and couldn't offer, and report what they answered.

Pass on what a competitor is said to be offering, point out what they can't deliver, and decide how to respond.

Pass on someone's suggestions with the subjunctive, ask what exactly is proposed, and find out who does the work.

Welcome visitors, tell them where to go, and explain when enrolments are open and on what terms.

Answer a journalist, confirm what you were told, sum up a year, and report what you have always answered.

Hear an offer out, ask the questions that matter, thank someone for their directness, and keep your answer for later.

Decline a proposal in a formal letter, give one reason, and leave the door open, without ever writing the word no.

Speak in public, report what someone told you a year ago, thank people by name, and say what would have happened without them.

Go through a year's accounts, say what has been spent and paid, use percentages, and ask where you stand.

Look back on a year with the person who started it, report what they had told you, and say what would have happened otherwise.

Report what someone told you they had seen, what they said about it, and what you actually said, not what people assume.