At the Airport: Survival English for New Arrivals
⏱ 5 MIN · CEFR A2 At the Airport: Survival English for New Arrivals ✈️ From my notebook: When I landed in Sydney in 2005, I…
Read⏱ 5 MIN · CEFR A2 At the Airport: Survival English for New Arrivals ✈️ From my notebook: When I landed in Sydney in 2005, I…
Read⏱ 5 MIN · CEFR B2 Teamwork in a Busy Kitchen: Communication Under Pressure 👥 From my notebook: On a Saturday night at Star Casino with…
Read⏱ 5 MIN · CEFR B1 Writing a Menu: How to Describe Food in English 📋 From my notebook: At Popolo in Sydney, I helped rewrite…
Read⏱ 5 MIN · CEFR A2 Kitchen Vocabulary: The Food Words Every Learner Needs 🍳 From my notebook: Growing up in Bangladesh, I helped my mother…
Read⏱ 5 MIN · CEFR B2 Body Language at Work: What English Doesn’t Say 👁️ From my notebook: In twelve years of hospitality, I learned to…
Read⏱ 5 MIN · CEFR B1 Dealing with Complaints: Staying Calm in English 😤 From my notebook: A customer once threw a menu at me in…
Read⏱ 5 MIN · CEFR A2 Numbers and Money: Maths English for Hospitality 💰 From my notebook: On my second day in a Sydney restaurant, I…
Read⏱ 5 MIN · CEFR B2 Small Talk with Customers: The Art of Light Conversation 💬 From my notebook: At Ivy in Sydney I noticed that…
Read⏱ 5 MIN · CEFR A2 Taking Orders: Polite English for Restaurant Staff 🍽️ From my notebook: My first job in Sydney was taking orders at…
Read⏱ 5 MIN · CEFR B1 Taste in Words: Describing Wine Like a Sommelier 🍷 From my notebook: At Uccello in Sydney, I once described a…
ReadMost of this site is reading. These two are writing — the only way to find out what your English actually does, and what your inner weather is actually like. Take one now, or skip and find them in the menu at any time.
A twenty-question encounter with how you actually think in English.
This is not a multiple-choice test. There are no gap-fills and no word banks. Those instruments measure recognition. This one measures production — the unruly, idiosyncratic act of putting thought into English under gentle pressure.
You will be asked about your dreams, your reading, your silences, your weather. Some prompts feel like journal entries. Some feel like riddles. Answer them as yourself — only as yourself.
Thirteen sideways questions about the architecture of your own experience.
“How are you?” produces “fine.” “What is wrong?” produces defence. So this asks neither. It asks about texture, temperature, containers, landscapes at 3 AM — sideways entry points that let you describe an inner state without having to expose a biography.
There is no timer and no right answer. The only thing measured is granularity: how finely you can name what is happening inside you. That skill is learnable, and it travels with you.