Team meetings at work: Giving an update on your project
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Key Phrases
¿Nos platicas cómo va tu proyecto?
Can you tell us how your project is going?
Me falta revisar los números con Ventas.
I still need to check the numbers with Sales.
¿Le mando el reporte por correo?
Should I send you the report by email?
Skills You'll Learn
Giving progress updates about a project
Dar actualizaciones de progreso sobre un proyecto
Expressing what still needs to be done using 'me falta'
Expresar lo que falta por hacer usando 'me falta'
Offering to do something formally using 'usted'
Ofrecer hacer algo de forma formal usando 'usted'
Lesson Roleplay
Imagine you're in a morning team meeting at your office in Mexico. Your boss asks about your project, and you want to update her on your report.
Buenos días a todos. Emily , ¿nos platicas cómo va tu proyecto?
Good morning, everyone. Emily, can you tell us how your project is going?
Buenos días, licenciada. Claro, va bastante bien.
Good morning, ma'am. Sure, it's going pretty well.
Qué bueno. ¿Ya terminaste el reporte?
Good to hear. Have you finished the report yet?
Casi. Me falta revisar los números con Ventas.
Almost. I still need to check the numbers with Sales.
Perfecto. ¿Para cuándo lo tienes listo?
Perfect. When will you have it ready?
Lesson Vocabulary & Phrases
¿Nos platicas?
nohs plah-TEE-kahs
Will you tell us?
💬 platicar is the everyday Mexican verb for chatting or telling; in Spain you'd hear contar instead. Asking with a plain present-tense question, ¿Nos platicas?, is a soft way to make a request.
See breakdown →Va.
bah
Okay.
🇲🇽 Va is a quick, casual Mexican "okay" or "deal", common among coworkers. With a boss in a formal meeting, de acuerdo "agreed" or claro "of course" sounds more polished.
See breakdown →Cómo va tu proyecto
KOH-moh bah too proh-YEK-toh
How your project is going
💬 Spanish uses ir "to go" for how things are progressing, just like English. Swap the subject to reuse it: cómo va la reunión "how the meeting is going".
See breakdown →¿Nos platicas cómo va tu proyecto?
nohs plah-TEE-kahs KOH-moh bah too proh-YEK-toh
Can you tell us how your project is going?
🇲🇽 This is a friendly, informal way for a manager to hand you the floor, typical of Mexican offices where teams use tú. Start with a short positive line before details.
See breakdown →Licenciada
lee-sen-SYAH-dah
Ma'am (title for a woman with a degree)
🇲🇽 In Mexico, people with a university degree are often addressed by title at work: Licenciada Pérez, or just Licenciada. It's polite and very common, often shortened to Lic. in emails.
See breakdown →Va bastante bien.
bah bahs-TAHN-teh byehn
It's going pretty well.
💬 bastante here means "pretty" or "fairly", not "enough". Same use: bastante rápido "pretty fast".
See breakdown →Qué bueno.
keh BWEH-noh
Good to hear.
¿Ya terminaste el reporte?
yah ter-mee-NAHS-teh el reh-POR-teh
Have you finished the report yet?
💬 Mexican Spanish normally uses the simple past for "have you done it yet": ¿Ya terminaste? rather than ¿Ya has terminado?. ya carries the "yet" or "already" meaning.
See breakdown →Casi.
KAH-see
Almost.
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