The Non-Natives
Non-native English speakers who come to the U.S. every year have difficulty speaking the language even though they have studied English, they do not understand the difficult accent. For example English’s language words are spelled the same and some of them even sound the same. These similarities of English which they learned in their countries might be different. Non-native English speakers have difficulty with assimilation, commutation, and adjustment.
Miscommunication is a big problem. Non-native speakers have a hard time speaking with others because they cannot understand the way others speak English like in the article “Mother Tongue”, Tan realized the way her mother and husband spoke was something she heard a lot, but when she stepped out of the community. Tan heard everything differently even the language sound different then what she was used to hearing around her family. Amy Tan states, “All the forms of standard English that I learned in school and through books, the form of English I did not use at home with my mother,” non-native speakers like Tan’s mother could have learned English in her country but when she arrived in America the English she spoke over there was different then what they speak in America. …show more content…
But for my mother that’s a different story like Lee’s mother, we also had to help our mother with conversation on the phone or if we want out to buy phone’s to make a family plan she would always have one of her children present with her. “She used English flashed cards and phrase books and watched television with us kids,” my mother now tells my older brother that just came to the states not long ago that if wants to learn English better is by watching television with my younger brother because that’s the way she learned her