Languages
I do not know what it is
The new alphabet?
The accent?
The vocabulary?
Or maybe it’s just the nuances
It isn’t easy to learn a language
Yet somehow it happens so quickly
and I am not talking about a classroom
a textbook,
or worksheets
or boring lectures on an early Monday morning
You never truly know a language until
you are forced to use it
again
and again
and again
with no way out
It is a disease.
It bothers you for months,
until it suddenly becomes part of you.
You stop resisting it.
But languages are like balls flying between a juggler’s hands
The moment you master one
the other falls away.
The hard part is to keep all of them in check
Sure, you could hold onto one ball
or toss around two ,
And it would be very comfortable and familiar
But in order to be great,
you need to juggle.
I like how you compared learning a language to juggling and a disease.
ReplyDeleteI like the line spacing and repetition and the extended metaphor that you used.
ReplyDeleteI like how you talked about juggling 1 or 2 balls being easy, but having 3 or more is hard to do.
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