<p>Communication was brought up in one of the videos, something that is very important when considering an international component to CTE courses.&nbsp; A former colleague that worked in furniture design and manufacturing used to tell the students, "learn Chinese."&nbsp; Now I'm thinking of how that might be applied to my classes.&nbsp; Some of what I teach is drawing and that can get around some or a lot of the limitations of spoken language.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>