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Placement exam and needs analysis for your whole team. A1–C2, with 1–1½ hours total and 3–5 days to finish.
Front Desk · Victoria, BC
English for hotel front desk agents in Victoria
Front desk handles cruise-day volume, garden and whale-watching bookings and heritage-property quirks. Being a confident local guide in English is a real part of the role.
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.
Victoria's hospitality workforce is mixed, with a smaller Spanish-speaking share than the Rockies resort markets. Where Spanish-speaking employees are present, the service demand is conversational: guests arrive for gardens, tea, whale watching and history, and expect the property to interpret the city for them. That is exactly the interaction limited English closes off.
Inside the platform Demo
15+ minutes a day, in the English of their role
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 C2 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.
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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