A Practical Walk

Book review number two here! My first book review was a Well-Watered Woman.

Overall, I’d say this is a great book! Y’all know how much I love pracitical things…and this fits into the category of “practical!”

Sometimes as I read this book, I was like, “So that’s why my husband’s such a good language learner!” For example, it talked about making connections with what your learning and about telling others what you’re learning. I don’t know how many times as we’ve been in language study together he’d say, “You can remember it because it’s like this word in Spanish,” or whatever connection he’d come up with.

There were multiple suggestions in the book that are things I’d heard before or noticed from experience, but it was nice to seem them affirmed (like the importance of taking a break if you get stuck). The book was written with a kid or teen audience, but I also enjoyed reading it.

As someone who’s always learning, whether it be a new language, trying to understand the Bible better, or simply wanting to know more cooking techniques there’s plenty of useful advice in this book. As a mom homeschooling two teens, I also found it fascinating. As I read I tried to think of how I could help my kids apply some of these ideas. I won’t go through all the ideas and tips in this book, you can read it yourself for that, but I’ll just say I’m excited to put some of these concepts into practice.

One last thing I want to mention, is that I loved the attitude towards slower learners! The authors definitely feel like most people can learn pretty much anything. It might take longer for some people and they might have to come up with creative ways to learn it, but if you’re determined and put forth the right kind of effort you can learn! As someone who has felt like a slow learner at times, this kind of attitude is empowering and can make a world of difference.

We purchased the book used..and I think the previous owner was trying to do some active learning:

Have you read Learning How to Learn? I’d love to know what concepts you’ve been able to apply to your life!

Any other learning books you’d recommend?