A learner of English from Spain, Ana Jiménez Martín, has written a poem about what it is like to learn a new language. Her poem describes it as making a journey that doesn't have an end.
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English is as interesting as
a trip to something you don't know;
you are introduced to it when you are young.
this is a lost world for you.
You observe the beautiful scenery
but you don't know how to interpret it;
hear some sounds
that you have never heard before
without wanting to think
they are going to unite.
It's a long and difficult road
that will never finish,
but you cast your fears aside
and forget them.
In time you'll find the way.
So when you feel that hope
you will be strong, and ask yourself. Why?
Why I had to make this trip?
When you advance you'll see an answer
that you expected but didn't reach.
Every one of us must find this answer,
and follow. On this trip there will be
other trips, but none will have a final .
Each may choose their ...
Ana Jiménez Martín
With kind permission of the poet, previously published in Poetry as a Foreign Language, edited by Martin Bates, White Adder Press, 1999
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