Mother Tongue Summary

The article “Mother Tongue,” is a narration about the author’s experience with the English language. She talks about the communications issues when English is not your native langue. In the same line, she describes how our vocabulary tends to change according to the audience.
Language is a powerful tool to communicate with others. This tool is first learned at home, and then is improve in the school. In the house we use a basic language; it’s more intimate, because we are talking with our families and we grow up with that language. In contrast to the school, and jobs where we tend to speak more polite.
When you aren’t a native speaker the communication will be awkward; sometimes because you don’t know how to express an idea correctly, but