Because references sometimes work best.

: Me": "What is 'montagne' in English?"
Learner: "Uh... I don't know."
Me: "The English word for it is 'mountain'."
"Learner: "Ah! Like the movie with thew two cowboys!"

Because reasons.

Learner: "I like easy-listening music because of reasons."

The phonology of the toppings is divine, too.

Learner: "The Napoli pizza is very different from the usual Italian pizza, because of the morphology of the pizza... "

You must've been a cutie.

Learner: "Oh, before, when I was child, my nickname was Gagarin."
Me: "Why?"
Learner: "Because when they took my picture, they say I looked like him in his spacesuit."

You're more of a conundrum, I think.

Me: "... And that's it for today. Do you have any questions?"
Learner: "No, I'm not a question."

oh my fandoms.

Me: "... and that's what the word "odds" means. Let's check how well you understood it. What does the phrase 'May the odds ever be in your favor!' mean?"

Learner: "Hmm.... It's a bit like 'May the Force be with you'?"

... Lemme go check on the TARDIS.

Me: "So, M---, how was the trip to work today? Did it take very long?"

Learner: "My time travel from home was perfect."

Singing Newspapers, huh?

Me: "Did you ever buy food because you saw or heard a commercial about it? Because remember, Commercials can also be heard on the radio."

Learner: "Like in the newspaper?"

... although that's possible, too.

Me: "How long have you been with your company?"

Learner: "Fifteen years."

Me: "Wow! It sounds like you really love your company"

Learner: "That must be the case, or I really don't know what I'm doing here!"

My learner's a fan!

Me: "Alright, M---, can you please make sentence using the word 'released'? "

Learner :" The [latest] movie about American heroes will [be] released next week, and I will take my son to watch it."

What she says, goes.

Learner: "Oh, I love ancient civilization."
Me: "Ah! you are like Indiana Jones."
Learner: "Oh no, I do not need to find Germans. I have one beside me; it's my wife."

This is why I love my enthusiastic researcher learners.

Me: "So now, we will begin reading the article 'Why the Black Death killed millions in Europe'. "

Learner: "Yay!"