Learn How to Learn

I’ve always wanted to speak Spanish, so this year I finally took the plunge and started learning it. At first I was using an online application (Duolingo), and then I started doing two one-hour sessions per week with a teacher. My wife Heidi is also learning the language, but she finds it much easier than I do and is way ahead of me on the learning curve. Whereas Heidi can hear a word once and remember it (I swear she is just shy of having a photographic memory), it can take me 20-30 times of tr...