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Homophones are beyond the students' understanding (yeah, right…), but homosexuality is totes obvious.

Also see languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=13692

"Most of them, he says, are at basic levels of English and are not ready for the more complicated concepts such as homophones."

Could it happen anywhere besides America?\

Probably not.

... How did this guy become owner of a language institute when he doesn't even know what a homophone is?

Also, I'm pretty sure that most ESL speakers already know what a homophone is from their native language

Yeah, when I first read it I didn't even realize that you need at least a high school education for that place…

I'm pretty sure that was just the best excuse he could come up with when people started calling his bullshit. Because really, I'm pretty sure that those learning need to know about them because learning it

later on seems to me like it'd make a lot more confusion than learning early, hey these words are the same when you say them but they're totally different things!