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Hospitality in Catalina Island, California
Front Desk · Catalina Island, CA

English for hotel front desk agents in Catalina Island

Front desk at an Avalon inn is reservations, concierge and ferry-schedule desk in one, handling check-ins timed to boat arrivals and departures. Clear, confident English on exactly those logistics is the job.

The English of the job

Not general English. The English your front desk team uses every shift.

Your front desk agents practice exactly what they face in front of a guest: check-in, complaints, upgrades and late arrivals. Model phrases, natural-voice audio and daily correction — not grammar rules nobody repeats at the counter. The full program for front desk agents — the situations it rehearses, the target level and the price bands — is on the national front desk page.

Avalon's year-round community is substantially Spanish-speaking, and the island's hotels, restaurants and tour operators draw their staff from it, with scarce housing making every trained employee worth keeping. Guests are domestic weekenders, cruise passengers ashore for a day and international visitors, all arriving with the same logistics questions about ferries, golf carts and tours. On an island with no bilingual manager to borrow from the next property, the person at the desk handles it in English or it does not get handled.

Inside the platform Demo
A hotel guest conversation in the practice platform
15+ minutes a day, in the English of their role
Actual platform screens · Sample data · Employee guidance is in Spanish
Target level

Front Desk: CEFR B1.

A2 as the floor; B2 for a front desk supervisor. The placement exam fixes each person's real level on the A1 to C1 scale, and daily practice is set from that starting point, not from the team average.

How it works

At least 15 minutes a day, measurable from HR.

Free placement exam and needs analysis

Placement exam and needs analysis for your whole team. A1–C1, with 1–1½ hours total and 3–5 days to finish.

Daily practice

At least 15 minutes a day, by role and level. Listen, speak and get feedback from any device.

Progress for HR

See participation and levels by employee, department and property.

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