Language Acquisition vs Language Learning

This poem is actually one of my ELT tutorial project with some of my coursemates. Enjoy!

* “Sagen Sie mir, wo ist dein Song,

Sie können in der Klasse schlafen?“

How can I learn it,

When nobody speaks to me?

How can I learn Deutsch,

When all speak in English and French?

How can I write a song,

When I get my Subject-Object-Verb all wrong?

I was born in the country with the Sun to see,

And after a winter I learned my A-B-C.

“A is for apple, B is for boy;

C is for cow, and D is for donkey!”

Papa taught me ‘Alphabets Song’,

Mama taught me ‘Old Mc Donald’,

So I babbled in English as long as I grow old.

Then I want to make wedding gowns,

So I flew to Paris.

‘Bonjour!’ ‘ Merci!’ God, help me!

I even pronounced ‘croissant’ as ‘croy-sen’.

The Parisian gave me that stare (Ha Ha Ha),

But thank God, French words grace the streets.

When I speak in English,

They replied in French instead,

*“excusez-moi?”

The French pronunciation is like a Rubik cube,

Fun to explore, pain to solve,

By rolling my tongue into a ball,

To talk more and erase my woes, once and for all.

The French pronunciation is like a Rubik cube,

But it is peanuts, as when I learn German off YouTube,

I talked to all but a huge eye piercing screen,

With no friend to talk to but a mirror to preen.

So I pranced down the streets of Berlin,

When I say *“Guten Tag”, they replied “How are you”!

* Translation: “Good Day.”

Like a wandering monkey in the alley,

I tried, in vain, to look for a German-speaking ally,

So I went to a class and bought many books,

And burned the midnight oil to get my language right,

Even a *“Zwei Frühstücks” cannot show its might!

“Sagen Sie mir, wo ist dein Song,

Sie können in der Klasse schlafen?“

To write a song, a city of aliens,

Is like me, drowning slowly, into the deepest seas.

Down, down, and down,

Unless if someone rescues me, speak to me. 

*1. Translation: “Tell me, where is your song,

              You can sleep in the class?“  

*2. Translation: "Excuse me?"

*3. Translation: “Good Day.”

*4. Translation: “Two breakfast.”