Last week during a visit to my mom’s on Long Island, I excused myself so that I could peek at and mumble into my phone.
There was no way I was going to let a visit to my mom’s make me miss my Italian lesson.
For most of the past year (353 days and counting!), I have been religiously attending to my 15-minute-or-so daily encounters with the language-learning app Duolingo. I used it on the subway, while walking across town, during previews at the movies. It’s safe to say that I’ve become addicted to the app.
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