Book Review

Some books make you laugh, some excite the imagination, some bore, others scare, but there is a small selection of books with very little in common except that at some point in my life they pushed me beyond the limits I’d unknowingly set myself. I first picked up Barry Farber’s book,How to learn any language, in 2007. Going by the title I expected the book to be a beginner’s guide into learning languages. At the time I was starting my first foreign language, Spanish. I had no idea which direction I should be headed in, what my learning styles were, or what level of Spanish I could realistically expect to achieve. I even doubted whether or not I had it in me to learn a second language. Barry Farber’s book not only helped to wash away those doubts, it also...