📖 From Sourov's world: In hospitality, your skills are your salary. I could make twelve types of coffee. I could recommend a wine blind. I could serve twenty tables at once without a single error.…
You use your knowledge of the topic to guess words you didn't hear. This is:
You need to find a phone number quickly in a long document. Which strategy do you use?
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From Sourov's world: As a sommelier at The Ivy in Sydney, I held dozens of wine labels every shift. When a guest asked about a wine, I did two completely different things in about four…
From Sourov's world: One night at The Ivy in Sydney, a champagne glass slipped from a tray. I caught it mid-air, less than a metre from a dress that would have cost more than my…
From Sourov's world: When I moved to La Réunion, I picked up my first French newspaper and read the headline. The words were French but the meaning made no sense — where were the articles?…
From Sourov's world: Working at Star Casino in Sydney during my first year, Australian customers spoke fast — really fast. I caught maybe 40% of what they said. Panicking made it worse. Then I discovered…
When I started writing formally — appeals, job applications, eventually blog posts — I tried to write perfectly on the first attempt. I couldn't. No one can. The best writers I know treat the first…
🎙 From the classroom: When I submitted my first written assignment on the teacher training course in France, my observer wrote three words: 'one idea only.' I had put four ideas in one paragraph. In…
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