Here's a conversation I recorded with my friend Mario Marzo while we were in Tenerife. We talk about the role of confidence in language-learning, his experience as a non-native speaker growing up and how his approach to learning a new language has paid off. We also talk about more stuff too, so listen to the episode and find out. I met Mario towards the end of summer and we hit it off (that's a good expression). We got along right away, basically. I thought it was really interesting that his ...