I Was Trash at Learning Languages for 30 Years—Until I Tried This App

Anyone (but especially Americans, like me) will tell you that learning a foreign language in adulthood is hard. Despite middling teenaged efforts in middle and high school, I entered my thirties still strugging to get a working grasp of Spanish. I dove into all the apps: Rosetta Stone, Duolingo, Babbel, Memrise, and iTalki, plus books…