Tag: second language

  • Learning a Second Language at Age 77

    Learning a Second Language at Age 77

    ​A few days ago Rich bellowed “Karen!” with an urgency I haven’t heard since that time the pine tree in our front yard caught on fire. I raced down the hall to find him holding up a small, irregular piece of cardboard. ​It was the missing piece from a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle, which we’d recently…