Die Erfahrung (Our experience with German language)

,,Ein japanisches Sprichwort sagt: Nur die Reise ist schön –Nicht das Ankommen!

Vielleicht liebt man an einer fremden Sprache genau diese Reise. Man macht auf dieser Reise viele Fehler, aber man kämpft mit der Sprache, man dreht die Wörter nach links und rechts, man arbeitet mit ihr, man entdeckt sie.

Meine deutschen Wörter haben keine Kindheit,aber meine Erfahrung mit deutschen Wörtern ist ganz körperlich. Die deutschen Wörter haben Körper für mich. Ich bin ihnen im wunderbar deutschen Theater begegnet.”

Above lines are from the book that we referred during our German exam preparations.

Translation:

'' A Japanese proverb says: Only the journey is beautiful – Not the outcome!
Perhaps one loves foreign language exactly for this journey.  He makes a lot of mistakes (rather blunders) on this journey, he is wrestles with the language, turning the words to the left and right, he works with the language, and he discovers the language.

My German words have no childhood, but my experience with German words is quite physical. The German words have the body for me. I met them in the wonderful German theater. "

We have been learning, fiddling, exploring this new, foreign language since quite some time now and these two paragraphs completely summarise our experience of learning German. We are just the beginners but the process of studying the language is so much fun that we feel really connected to it.

As quoted by Lao Tzu,

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving”

We just stumbled into this hobby of learning language with no particular purpose or intention and before we knew a lot about it, we had started loving it. (A big thanks to our teachers who made it so interesting for us!)

Language is the path to the culture of the nation. It is reflection of people of belong to that nation. Learning foreign language is the bridge that connects whole world together. It expands the limit of ones world. 

Our experience with this foreign language has no childhood, but we’d definitely love to learn it till it becomes non-foreign to us!