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This is a little inside joke. I kept saying “stage” when referring to this training. Some of them said their previous English teachers told them you can’t say “stage” in English and you have to say training or continuing education. While I agree, I don’t think this weeklong intensive training course fits the description of [...]

Of course jokes work best when you don’t have to explain them, but for non-native speakers learning humor and understanding it presents big challenges. We did a short exercise where they had to think of a joke, translate it into English, practice telling it, and then tell it to the class and try to explain [...]