At age twelve, I was thrown into Algebra, Spanish, German, French, Chinese, Computer Programming, U. S. History, Biology, Basketball, Tennis, European Culture, Violin, Cello, Piano, Voice Lessons, and Martial Arts training.
For those who've yet to give it a whirl, Babbel uses a mix of repetition, visual cues, spelling exercises and voice recognition, and it does a pretty stellar job of segmenting things into digestible lessons for those who only have five or ten minutes at a time to spare.