So Castle is really busy now? That was where I used to send students as an "easy" cross-country--easy to find, huge runway, not that much traffic.
IFR training with foreign students can be brutal. I lucked out of most of it, but a co-worker of mine had quite a few. His trick (learned from our vastly more experienced chief instructor) was to put a tiny mic in his headset and record the entire flight, then make the students study every flight to learn terminology.
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"Mr. CFI, what center mean by 'TINRE' and 'HODNI'?"
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I don't know if they're still out of Napa, but Japan Air Lines used to do instrument training into Stockton, Livermore, and Tracy. There's an IAF for approaches into Tracy called MANCO, which in Japanese slang is a very...um...crude term for a body part. We used to hear them reading back "proceed direct MANCO" all the time.