What is Homestay

Learning a language can be, and is, a challenging experience, but also a joyous one. Language learners talk about their journeys in multiple ways. In this chapter, the author portrays her learning of Japanese language though poetry. In her early life as a little child, she learned three languages at once. She was therefore trilingual from an early age. She, however, learned Japanese as an adult. This experience remained vivid in her life as she took the challenges and accomplished her goals. This is an autoethnographic journey of learning Japanese language, and her poetry shows that a student of language can have many paths of expressing the journey of learning a language, including poetry. In this chapter, she seeks to explore the question: How does a learner characterize the experiences of learning a language with a different culture and orthography through poetic data?