파워잉글리쉬 2024.07.24 : Microgreens as a Side Hustle

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Power English 07/26/24: 
Microgreens as a Side Hustle

🍪 Dialog

Theresa: So, Flank ordered 3 kilos a week. How much were you growing at that point?
Blake: I was only growing about 3 kilos a week. That meant I had to scale up right away.
Theresa: At least you found out that there was a market for your product.
Blake: Then he told a few of his restaurant friends and I got more orders. Last month, I added two more greens to my product list.
Theresa: It's probably getting hard to keep track of it all.
Blake:  Don't forget, I'm an accountant in my day job.

 

🍪 Power Expressions

✅ Scale up: to increase something in size or scope; to make something larger or more.

- When you are talking about a small business and increasing the volume, or the amount they sell, that is what you would call "scaling up the business".
-  Scaling up means doing more of the same thing you've done so far. If you start something different to increase the total amount, that would be "expanding".
-  This expression is very business-, and project-oriented, so it seems awkward when it is used in daily life.

✅ Find out something: to learn something, often a single fact about something. (= discover)

-  e.g. I found out that you and Mike are dating.
-  e.g. I found out that Ted and I have the same birthday. 테드와 나의 생일이 같다는 걸 알게 됐다.

✅ Keep track of something or someone: to monitor something, being able to follow everything is going; to look and see what they are doing or how they are performing; 

- Where are my keys? I set them down next to my phone. / You can't seem to keep track of anything. 넌 뭘 어디에 뒀는지 아무것도 기억 못하는 것 같아! 

✅ Don't forget, .... 잊지마, ~

- 원래 이미 그대로 "잊지마세요"의 의미로 쓰이기도 하지만, (e.g. Don't forget your belongings.)
- 이 경우에는 어떤 사실을 상기시키고 강조하는 의미로 사용됨 (= Don't you know?)

✅ Accountant: Accountants keep track of the financial flows of businesses and individuals to examine financial records, identify potential areas of opportunity and risk, and provide solutions.

 

🍪 Personal Picks

✅ There was a market. 수요가 있었네.

- It implies a demand for something and the availability of sellers to meet that demand.
- A market doesn't mean a place for transactions (시장) in this context. 

✅ Pesimistic 비관적인; Optimistic 낙관적인

✅ Word of mouth 입소문

- The passing of information from person to person using oral communication.
- In this dialog, one happy customer told another person, and they became a new customer. Flank didn't advertise, but just got it through word of mouth.