我等一下就要出发去机场
“I'm heading to the airport soon.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
今天不行了
“I can't do it today.”
我 等一下 就要 出发去机场
“I'm heading to the airport soon.”
等我回来
“Maybe another time.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Providing a hard, inflexible travel deadline allows speakers to decline requests gracefully without causing interpersonal friction.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in a moment / in a little while
Common temporal adverb indicating an action that will occur very shortly.
about to / will soon
Grammatical marker used to signal that an event is imminent.
depart for / set off to
Standard collocation indicating setting out towards a specific destination.