Genius Hour, or 20 Time, is a concept advanced by such successful companies as Google that allows employees to spend 20% of their time working on projects based on their own curiosity, their own passions. It's an attractive strategy for the classroom, too, but can it work with novice language classes? I'm becoming a novice again, pursuing my own passion in Portuguese, a language I don't know, to see what it takes to make Genius Hour work with language learning.
