What Language are You Speaking?

My 4 year old son and I were playing the other day when he asked me something and I replied with silly gibberish. He promptly informed me to stop speaking Spanish. My gibberish in no way resembled Spanish or any language for that matter. However, to him it was foreign and he did not like it. PowerShell or any new technology can be like a foreign language. Scary, unknown gibberish. As a student of German, I understand that one of the best tactics to overcoming the fears and tackling the challenge is to face it head on and lean into it. If you want to learn a language, use it. If you want to learn PowerShell, use it. Find a few cmdlets that you can use daily and start. Force yourself to look for ways of conducting Windows administration using PowerShell. It will be slow and cumbersome in the beginning. You will start to realize the more you force yourself to be immersed in it, the more you will understand it's language. Here are some cmdlets to get going with:
Get-Service
Get-Process
Get-Help
Use Get-Help and then any cmdlet such as Get-Service to see what you can do with it.
Example: Get-Help Get-Service -ShowWindow
The -ShowWindow parameter will give you a nice thorough help article with examples