Team meetings at work: Agreeing or disagreeing with a colleague's idea
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Key Phrases
Me gustó tu idea de la junta.
I liked your idea from the meeting.
A las nueve es muy temprano.
Nine o'clock is very early.
Se lo digo al equipo hoy.
I'll tell the team today.
Skills You'll Learn
Expressing opinions about something in the past using 'I liked'
Expresar opiniones sobre algo pasado usando 'me gustó'
Suggesting and negotiating times with 'how about...?' and 'that's very good'
Sugerir y negociar horarios con '¿qué tal a...?' y 'está muy bien'
Using combined object pronouns (I'll tell them) to talk about informing others
Usar pronombres de objeto combinados (se lo digo) para hablar de informar a otros
Lesson Roleplay
Imagine you're at work in Mexico. You want to tell your coworker Laura you like her meeting idea and agree on a good time.
Buenos días, Laura. ¿Tienes un minuto?
Good morning, Laura. Do you have a minute?
Claro, Emily . ¿Qué pasó?
Sure, Emily. What's up?
Me gustó tu idea de la junta. Estoy de acuerdo.
I liked your idea from the meeting. I agree.
¡Qué bueno! ¿Te gusta hacer la junta los lunes?
Great! Do you like having the meeting on Mondays?
Sí, pero a las nueve es muy temprano.
Yes, but nine o'clock is very early.
Lesson Vocabulary & Phrases
¿Tienes un minuto?
TYEH-nehs oon mee-NOO-toh
Do you have a minute?
🇲🇽 A polite, low-pressure way to catch a colleague before raising something. Fine with peers; with a boss, ¿Tiene un minuto? is safer.
See breakdown →¿Qué pasó?
keh pah-SOH
What happened?
Me gustó tu idea
meh goos-TOH too ee-DEH-ah
I liked your idea
💬 With gustar, the thing liked does the action, so the verb matches it: me gustó tu idea, but me gustaron tus ideas "I liked your ideas".
See breakdown →La junta
lah HOON-tah
The meeting
🇲🇽 In Mexico a work meeting is a junta; you'll hear reunión too, but junta is the everyday office word.
See breakdown →Me gustó tu idea de la junta.
meh goos-TOH too ee-DEH-ah deh lah HOON-tah
I liked your idea from the meeting.
🇲🇽 Opening with praise before adding your own view is a common, smooth way to engage with a colleague's idea in Mexican offices.
See breakdown →Estoy de acuerdo.
ehs-TOY deh ah-KWEHR-doh
I agree.
💬 Agreeing uses estar plus de acuerdo, not a verb like "agree": estamos de acuerdo "we agree", no estoy de acuerdo "I don't agree".
See breakdown →Qué bueno.
keh BWEH-noh
Good to hear.
¿Te gusta hacer la junta?
teh GOOS-tah ah-SEHR lah HOON-tah
Do you like holding the meeting?
💬 After gusta, the next verb stays in its plain dictionary form: ¿Te gusta trabajar aquí? "Do you like working here?".
See breakdown →Los lunes
lohs LOO-nehs
On Mondays
💬 Days need no word for "on": el lunes means this Monday, los lunes means every Monday.
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