Learning Language Poems

Adept Anglophone pines to learn Yiddish as a second language

When alive colorful turns of phrases
uttered courtesy my father or mother
whose ability to describe a situation
perfectly...

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How can you not love the language, the accent…
they way they form their words in France?
How French words flow so easily…linger in the air…and dance

Luckily...

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Syllables seduce, syntax entices,
Vocabulary's siren call is so enticing.
Letters Dance, a lexical romance,
I'm caught in language's passionate trance.

The first date with an "ineffable," spark ignites,
"Petrichor"...

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The ability to imagine
isn't a critical thinking lapse

Rather, a strengthening of the mind
and a willingness to say perhaps...

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Like a river that carves its way,  
The language flows; learning starts each day.  
Babbles of sound, first words take flight,  
A gurgling stream, bathed...

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Not all educators possess keen minds,
PhD holders, learners, sometimes blind.
Some, a gift, a talent they conceal,
Reasoning not their strong appeal.

They disregard others' facts and views,
Believing...

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I was a happy, fluent linguist, fruitfully helping revive endangered languages,
As colorful rainbows walk across the sky, in buttery hours, turned languorous.

I enjoyed doing practical...

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Ick spraeke kein Deutsch.

but i’m on a roll
of the dice,
to attempt to understand
a few phrases,
a little buzz.

mein Prinz -

he knows a little. he lived
in Germany,...

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Languages are important its worth learning 
How nice it would be to understand other cultures
To communicate and converse with others in a variety of ways
Languages...

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I am a cow 
Of course most of you reading this are also cows
But I have heard a rumor that those creatures
Who walk on two...

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Learning word meanings is fun indeed
as laughter bursts out from wisdom* seed…
"Her pink pen writes so well
while his dog pen does smell
thanks to Aunt Pen...

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The Art of Being Empty 
I was baptized in the TV light of The Biggest Loser  
and worshipped a version of myself that I...

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All my life I grew up stuttering
the words, the slang terms
the sentences
everything I say
coming from out of my mouth
always too complicated
for other people to comprehend
they...

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I cry between the lines, A.I. verse this will never be.
I defy the artificial assembler of words to impersonate, 
to predict this in living color.
Absent...

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When questioned about chinese,
I affirmed my expertise.
And so I sought to learn more,
Having known nothing before....

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