Actually, many people think that bartender is just a person who simply makes cocktails. And they also think that foreign language skills are not needed to be a good bartender. But it's not true. Even in korea, many foreigners went a bar for cocktails. For them, bartender has to recommend or introduce cocktail's name and its taste. Of course, most people knew what they want to drink, but in case of cocktail beginner, they don't have any infomation about cocktail. I think it is the basic virtue of bartender. So I have to study a brewery English and hotel English. I have a textbook about those two area. It is little bit difficult, because of the idiom expression. So I'm studying hotel English expression. I memorized the word overbooking. I didn't know about what it means. Delux room is also new word. But I am studying with fun. It fits me!!
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Actually, many people think that a bartender is just a person who simply makes cocktails. And they also think that foreign language skills are not needed to be a good bartender. But it's not true. Even in Korea, many foreigners go to a bar for drinking cocktails. For them, bartenders have to recommend or introduce a cocktail's name and its taste. Of course, most people know what they want to drink, but in case of a cocktail beginner, they don't have any information about cocktails. I think it is the basic virtue of bartender. So I have to study English words about brewery and hospitality. I have a textbook about those two fields. It is a little bit difficult, because of the idiom expressions. So I'm studying English expression for hotel business. I memorized the word 'overbooking'. I didn't know what it means. 'Deluxe room' is also a new word. I am studying while having fun. It fits me!!
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I have used Google, a easy-to-use concordancer, to improve the sample writing.
For example, in order to find out whether 'a basic virtue' is right or 'the basic virtue' is right, I simply typed both word on google with quotation marks and it gives the number of search results found. More natural and native-like expression will have a higher number of search results.
I didn't use concordancer to correct student's typing or spelling errors and misuse of singular and plural nouns. (I need a suggestion for this)
For the odd expressions like 'hotel english' and 'brewery english', I typed in both words on google and could not find any relative search results, so I corrected on my own as I assume it is not a really authentic language use.
I could improve the sample writing expressions/sentence use too (Not only incorrect single word uses) For some expressions like 'studying with fun', Even though I could find some search results, I could definitely tell that "have fun while studying" or "studying while having fun" is more widely used expression with the number of search results, so I changed it.
With this exercise, I will definitely use concordancer programs like google for my own writing, because I now know it is a very useful and straightforward tool for language learning.
