Mother Tongue By Amy Tan By Jian C. Chen
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especially when people from different countries have no clue what you are speaking. In this story by Amy Tan she explain her experience with language which was a very frustrating task and this story is called Mother Tongue. In the essay Amy Tan explains how speaking proper English and the language of Chinese which the county of China where she grew up has different dialects when spoken. On page (135) Amy Tan states that ‘’ I was giving a talk to a large group of people, the same talk I had already given
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By reviewing “Mother Tongue” Amy Tan explains about language that she speaks and the way how her mother speaks. Tan’s mother does not speak perfect English compare to her daughter. I agree when Tan’s mother would want to call her daughter for when the workers in the hospital had lost her CAT scan. I believe that if she did not call her daughter for assist the workers would not understand her or she would be confused of their speaking. I understand when Tan was curious about her mother speaking English
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My Time in Israel In the essay “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, Tan claims that the idea that we speak different languages and that we are judged by the way we communicate with each other. She is really amazed by the way other people speak so she decides to use that in her work. When she walks down the street she observes all the different types of English. When she was a child she spoke two different types of English. She spoke proper English and broken English depending on who she was around.
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it's different than the one you are used to. Is it easy for you to communicate with other? Clearly, it is uneasy. I was intrigued by Amy Tan article which explains about the variation of Englishes we used. Some may not know a variation of Englishes we used as often and how this variation affects our daily customer services provided. In “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, who was always fascinated by language in her daily basis. She loves to talk about the English language and its variation she uses. From
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The Article I chose is "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan. 2. I believe the author’s purpose was to acquaint the readers about the author’s explanation of differentiating Standard English and broken English. What brought me to this conclusion was that (Tan) the mother’s daughter has spent most of her time in America; it has enabled her to have a combination of both cultures. The author Amy Tan wants to grabs the attention of readers that have limitations and other difficulties in their life. The author
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The author Amy Tan reflects this phenomenon by writing an article called “Mother Tongue”. The author Tan effectively builds the credibility between herself and the audience by tel-ling her own personal experience. For instance, she can switch the English between her hus-band and her mother, she speaks the more informal English language to her mother because ensure that her mother can easily understand with
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feel the need to compromise the way in which we communicate our ideas so that we can appeal to the views of the majority. Two authors explore how their attempt to compromise almost caused them to become detached from their roots. In "Mother Tongue," by Amy Tan, Tan talks about growing up as a young child in America and learning the English language. She speaks about growing up as a writer and her mother's imperfect diction which had a major influence on her. On the other hand, In her essay, "Censoring
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“broken” English is difficult for me to assist my mother, so I am eager to improve my English and teach my mother to learn English to solve her problem by herself in life. According to “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, Her parents are Chinese and speak “limited” English. When Amy Tan was fifteen, she used to feel pressure to be a translator to aid her mother on the phone. Her teacher and classmates think the Asian American student can’t be good at English, yet Amy Tan challenges against
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Breaking the Language Barrier Dawn Schwaeber FYS-102-DL2A: First Year Seminar Adjunct Professor Camille A. Kramer March 23, 2014 Abstract “The Mother Tongue” which was written in 1990 is a touching story of acceptance and appreciation written by Amy Tan, who is most famous for her novel “The Joy Luck Club”. I read over the story several times, and in doing so I realized what language, and interpretation of that language really is. This inspiring writing piece shows that it’s not just
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