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Where is he?
(thelemmy.club)
Is the joke that nobody knows what it says on the blackboard?
Yeah, they're not far enough along in the class.
At first, I thought there's a double meaning there:
Tonight's English! (as a second language class has been cancelled.)
vs.
Tonight's "English as a second language" class has been cancelled.
Ahhh, thank you
Very Larson-esque
Oof, my brain took this in a dark way. My first thought was that ICE took the teacher.
Fuck this timeline, I can’t even properly interpret a simple, light-hearted comic strip anymore.
Yeah...yeah. We live under authoritarianism no matter how much authoritarians want to gaslight us.
When I think of ICE.
English translation:
School for the Illiterate
Classes are canceled today
This does make me lol, but imagine an “English as a second language” class that applies to all languages and not a specific one. Would be interesting to see how they teach the language with reference a native language.
Same way you teach a child. Start with basic nouns and verbs and use them in context. Demonstrate and interact and repeat.
Source: have a 25 year out of date "teaching English as a second language" certificate. ;)
In a way, not having a fallback language to communicate seems like it would make it highly motivating for both teacher and student.
I remember taking Spanish classes where the professor would say "no English in this room", but that wouldn't even last a full day.
Oh, nice, so this comic was made for you!
Alternatively, go on a long boat journey and listen; you'll eventually understand the language.
Instructions unclear, spent the entire time vomiting
Drank too much mead?
Is this a The Thirteenth Warrior reference?
If so, it's literally the first one I've ever encountered in the wild!
Yes, 13th Warrior is what I was referencing, glad it was noticed.
I was a German as a Second Language teacher once. Theoretically, you start with very easy things, pointing at stuff, pictures, ... and work your way up from there. Defacto, everyone spoke English so we had a common language. I'm pretty sure, people who live in an English speaking country know enough English to get along. Even at some point in school, teachers explained grammar and to an extend vocabulary in English even tho we all spoke German as a native language (including the teachers)
english manuals that i have seen while learning english as a second language at school have been exclusively in english, only using my native language for stuff at the beginning of the book unrelated to the content
it used images to show the meanings of words
For some reason this reminds me of a college class I cut so many times, when I showed up for the final the professor had grown a beard since the last time I had attended, and I didn't recognize him. It was about 10 minutes into exam time and people were just happily chatting away. I started to take a breath to announce loudly, "If he's not here in two minutes I'm just gonna leave," when this guy leaning against a desk talking to students suddenly said, "Welp, I guess we should get started." It was the freaking prof. If he had waited another second it would have been total embarrassment.
I think ICE got the teacher
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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