My teenage daughter and I are both trying to learn Spanish but she picks up pronunciation effortlessly while I struggle with it, and I'm better at grammar while she finds it boring — we started learning together but now I feel like I'm holding her back and she's getting frustrated with my slower progress, which is making me want to quit.
More people experience this than they realize.
A shared learning goal is creating comparison and frustration because two people's brains process new information at different rates and through different strengths.
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