🎙 From the classroom: I've written my CV in English, French, and Bengali. The English version is the hardest — not because of language, but because of culture. A British or Australian CV is concise,…
🎙 From the classroom: Working at The Ivy in Sydney, I learned that small talk wasn't small. It built the relationship before the transaction. A guest who felt genuinely noticed would order a better bottle,…
🎙 From the classroom: I've given dozens of training briefings to hotel teams in Sydney — shift handovers, product launches, standards updates. The teams who remembered information were the ones who could anticipate the structure.…
🎙 From the classroom: I've been interviewed in English in Australia, and interviewed over fifty people for front-of-house positions in Sydney restaurants. The candidates who stood out didn't have the best CVs. They had the…
🎙 From the classroom: Over eighteen years in hospitality, I wrote hundreds of emails to VIP guests, suppliers, and managers. The best emails I ever received — and sent — all had one thing in…
🎙 From the classroom: As a barista, I measured everything: 18 grams of coffee, 93 degrees, 28 seconds. Numbers are everywhere in cooking and every kitchen in the world. Using the kitchen as a context…
🎙 From the classroom: My morning in Réunion: wake up at 5am, drink coffee, look at the ocean, walk to the bakery. Every day, the same. Routines are where the Present Simple lives — and…
🎙 From the classroom: Young learners learn body parts fastest when they move. Touch your head. Touch your shoulders. The old song works because kinesthetic memory is one of the strongest kinds of memory —…
🎙 From the classroom: Réunion Island has remarkable animals: giant petrel birds, green sea turtles, chameleons in the garden, sharks in the lagoon. My daughter learned 'turtle' before 'table'. Children learn the words that mean…
🎙 From the classroom: My daughter is learning to name the world. Every day it's a new colour, a new shape. 'Papa, blue! Blue water!' That moment — when a child connects a word to…
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