Mother Tongue Summary

The article Mother Tongue talks about the unfairness towards “fractured” or “broken” English. Tan’s mother is originally from China, which means that English isn't her first language, she talked about the struggles her mother faced because of “limited” English. Tan explained how people at customer service ignored her mother, and sometimes acted like they didn’t hear what she was saying. Tan talked about how English could be spoken in many different ways. The language you grew up with, which she calls “family talk” is the language you and your family communicate with without misunderstanding each other, which is odd for outsiders. I can relate to this because, whenever I have my friends over to my house my uncle talks to my friends and most