Learning to Color

Learning a language is like a kid learning to color.  When you first start, you color outside the lines in a mostly unrecognizable mess, but as you progress  you get closer and closer to the lines until one day you aren't completely coloring inside the lines, but the picture still makes sense.  Even this progresses until you are coloring beautiful pictures inside the lines.  Then there is even the possibility of making your own lines and modifying the picture with shading and color choices to be more beautiful.  We call these over-achievers Poets.
Of course, me learning French is a little more like driving a Hummer through a vegetable garden.

(This is an old "post" copied from Facebook)