Lost in Translation

My brother's my frère, and I'm his schwester,

German or French, which one is bester?

Une autre langue, que j'apprends*,

And of le francais, I'm rather fond.

Then my bro started his Deutsch,

Un-understandable, interesting noich.

But that's not the only langues, we know,

My mom's somewhat of a Hindi pro.

Toh, agar maine ek galti ki,

Meri ma mujhe dantegi!**

And adding another to this language stew,

Is my undying love for Urdu!

So when my mom tries to teach me a lesson,

It's Urdu word-meanings, I go on guessin'

It's already a messy situation...

Imagine adding Kannada to the equation!

Shuttling between languages day and night,

It's hard to get one sentence right!

After using Hindi, and French in between too,

I end up saying things I don't mean to.

What starts with Kannada, ends with angrezi,

And it's enough to drive anyone crazy!

Yet, with five thriving languages between us four,

It's still mushkil to say, that we don't need more.

*One other language that I learn

** So, if I make one mistake, my mother will scold me