A friend of mine emailed me a story about trying out her Spanish on her gardener. She had wanted the gardener to trim her honeysuckle tree. After trying to explain this and thinking he understood she headed to the store. When she returned her tree had become a shrub.
That's language learning for you. You start with a tree and end up with something completely different...completely butchered and over pruned. The hope is that it will grow back into a full and lush honeysuckle tree. The reality is it will take a few years.
