Monday, April 18, 2011

Little Language Learner


Image by Nutdanai Apikhomboonwaroot via freedigitalphoto.net


A 10 year old blind girl named Alexia Sloane
has proven her skills could take her far from home.
Trilingual since birth, she guest translated for parliament.
I wonder if she yet knows how much that day meant.
It seems that she's driven by love of language and learning.
Currently learning her fifth -- for German fluency she's yearning.
I hope she also uses those skills for games like scrabble
and that with many kids her own age she does babble.

© Rachel Hoyt 2011.  All rights reserved.


My NaPoWriMo poem #20.



18 comments:

  1. I read about her! They say children learn languages faster than adults, but she's a genius!

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  2. Children do learn foreign languages so much easier than adults. Now if I could just master English, I'd be okay.

    Once again, well written rhyme.

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  3. Geez..what a smart little girl! I only know English, unless knowing how to count to 20 in spanish is acceptable! :D

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  4. I manage bits and pieces of a couple... but I stand in awe of people, children, adults like her who can master more than one.

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  5. Thanks everyone! I'm glad you liked the rhyme. I agree with Lolamouse... this girl is a genius. Sure, kids learn languages faster than adults, but she has an even more special gift. I (think) I have English down (haha) and am pretty good at Spanish. Perhaps I'll try for a third language some day. I dunno.

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  6. Trilingual at birth? I wasn't even uni-lingual at birth. I just made a loud annoying crying noises :)

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  7. That should say, "A lot of annoying crying noises"

    Clearly, I'm still struggling with English.

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  8. Bryan... are you sure you aren't just misspelliing things to make me feel better about "neaklace"? :)

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  9. That's amazing, Rachel. Thanks for sharing :)

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  10. I hadn't heard of her until now. What an inspiration!

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  11. Wow that's amazing, she's gifted! I just know one ..and half languages ;) I love French but it doesn't love me back very much! Thanks for sharing this!

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  12. Plus she's blind! At the risk of sounding corny, I do think that having a "disability" in one area heightens other areas. Love the poem and the link. <3

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  13. @Corinne - you're welcome! She IS amazing. :)

    @Belinda - She definitely inspires me that I should try for language #3! :)

    @Jessica M - Hehe. French doesn't love you back. That's cute. :)

    @sweepyjean - I totall agree with that theory. It doesn't detract from her brilliance, but... :) She is amazing.

    @Alejandro - It's rhymerachlisch... a new dialect of english I've been working on. :)

    @Jan - Thanks for stopping by! :)

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  14. Alexia inspires me totally. I am wowed
    xoxo
    Jessica

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  15. Great poem ~ and number 20! Fabulous! : ))

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  16. @Jessica - Thanks for visiting. Glad she/we could wow you. :)

    @Louise - Thanks! You've been keeping up the NaPoWriMo pace as well. Bravo. :)

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Rhyming or not, I would like a lot to hear the thoughts my words brought...