Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking With Einstein, learns a language with spaced repetition.

If you’re not up for spending a month in Mexico, learning simple Spanish stories by heart may be the next best thing.

Could memorizing poetry be better than vocabulary flashcards for learning a language?

In the light of my first new language, a new world blossoms around me.

Flashcards are powerful, but if you’re not careful, they can hijack your memory work. A reader asks: should we still use flashcards for learning a language? I answer: Yes, but only sometimes, and carefully.

I’m learning Spanish by Christmas, and the first step is learning the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). First for English, then for Spanish. The best way to learn the IPA? Anki decks.