Podcast Time: Learning Spanish The Hard Way

The hardest part of having a boy Getting him to study. Making him clean his room doesn t even come close. When I hear other moms complaining their kids are nerdy, I roll my eyes. I wish my boy would pick up a textbook once in a while instead of a ball. If he ever does learn something, it s always by chance and never sticks. My Reuben is a quarterback and last month he got hit on the head during practice. That boy s skull is thicker than a concrete brick. Usually you can pound on it with a cast iron skillet and he ll be aokay. But somehow this time he got a severe concussion and spent three days in a coma. Imagine my surprise, when he came to life speaking nothing but fluent, flawlessSpanish Him, a guy who d failed his sophomore Spanish class four times The doctors were baffled. They knew about foreignaccent syndrome. That s when people develop new accents as a postop complication. It s because their motor skills and speech function get impaired. But Reuben s case was inexplicable. Unless