Personal Narrative: My English As An Asian American

In my daily basis I can speak three languages and think it is great. In college I speak English, at home Russian/Ukrainian/English. My English was very bad and it was my first difficulty here. Overcome, but still a difficulty. For example, when it was necessary to call the bank or regarding any bill, at first I become covered with a cold sweat. Sometimes they hang up on me, which was understandable, but then I learn to write it down their names (practice in alphabetical), after that they were more patient with me. I didn’t live and didn’t work on Brighton Beach, where everybody speaks only Russian and it helped me to improve my speaking. Also, I was lucky to work in a medical office with all native speaking English employees. It helped me a lot. I don’t know how about in other states, but in New York is both good and bad, no one
Her mother, who emigrated to America from China and her “limited” English and how she as her daughter “ was ashamed of her English”. And the daughter who grows up in the United States, but, thus, she emphasizes the problems of a multicultural personality, for an example “why there are not more Asian Americans represented in American literature” and “ in creative writing program”? The author shares her family memories of “language of intimacy” between her and her husband, and the experiences of the language search located on the border of cultures, for example during her writing career. Another essay was written by Gloria Anzaldua “ How to Tame a Wild Tongue” clearly shares thoughts and examples on how Spanish speaking people can be attacked on their native language. How it makes effects on people’s voice and rights. For example on page P6: “ Their purpose: to get rid of our accents” in author’s vision, I think, it explains the idea of inferiority if you have an accent. But on page P10 she wrote and showed a very powerful, true position, “I will no longer be made to feel