From duae linguae to Duolingo

Foreign language teaching - the medieval way, with a rod, wax tablet and domination, 12th-century manuscript, France, Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Ms. 1041

Perhaps there is some comfort for any learner struggling with the first baby steps in a given area of study that others before them shared the same struggle and walked the same path, teeterin…