General Study Introduction 04/20/2013 Introduction There are thousands of languages in the world‚ such as Spanish‚ French‚ Chinese‚ English…However‚ No one can do better job in the second language than their mother language. In the article Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue”‚ Amy Tan emphasized her idea that we speak different languages unconsciously and we are categorized by the way we talk. The author talked about her mother who is a Chinese emigrant wanted to provide her daughter a better environment
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the constraints of language and the process becomes increasingly more taxing. Children of immigrants and their parents often face language and communication barriers upon arrival. This is the experience author Amy Tan describes in her essay “Mother Tongue”. Tan illustrates how the language spoken amongst family varies from the language spoken in public. As Tan communicates the language utilized in a child’s environment outside of an educational institution plays a part in how that child performs
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March 2013 Mother Tongue‚ by Amy Tan Summary: In Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue”‚ she narrates how her mother’s “broken” English affect her life and her career choices. She talked about the “kind of English” her and her family uses all the time. Tan mentioned her difficulties and struggles she had to deal with‚ when she was in school because her English wasn’t perfect. For her‚ learning English wasn’t easy. It wasn’t her strongest point. She was complimented with how well she does with Math
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-Mother Tongue – The Story of the English Language Around the planet‚ English is one of the most commonly used languages. Whether it’s in daily life or in translations‚ it is a universal language. English has been seen around the world for thousands of years‚ maybe not as the English we know and speak today‚ but it is an original form of the language. Major historical events occurred which resulted in the change of English‚ also creating many varieties of the English language‚ and how it is used
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English 101 Mother Tongue Amy Tan makes a valid point about the use of different Englishes that are spoken in different places and to certain people. What one says may sometimes vary based on the person‚ situation‚ or event as well. How one speaks and what they pick up on happens in the home and other people see them differently based on the way they speak. Different languages become difficult to translate as well because there isn’t always a similar word in the translating language. Many people
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Mother Tongue‚ by Amy Tan I am not a scholar of English or literature. I cannot give you much more than personal opinions on the English language and its variations in this country or others. I am a writer. And by that definition‚ I am someone who has always loved language. I am fascinated by language in daily life. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language -- the way it can evoke an emotion‚ a visual image‚ a complex idea‚ or a simple truth. Language is the
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A lot of people refer to mother tongue ‘influence’ on English‚ as mother tongue ‘influenza’ and have a good laugh at others’ expense. Of all the influences‚ the mother tongue influence is the most difficult to get rid of‚ or so we believe! In my Verbal Ability sessions‚ I invariably come across people who carry around an inferiority complex‚ just because they speak English with a mother tongue influence. When I tell them that I come from a vernacular medium school and couldn’t converse in
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Rehabilitating the "Wild Tongue" Philosophy at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The speaker‚ Francisco Guajardo‚ divided his presentation into four major parts. Francisco starts off by giving a background information of his life. In the first few minutes of the presentation‚ I learned Francisco belonged to an immigrant family. His family migrated to the United States‚ in search for a better life. Francisco grew up in the city of Elsa‚ Texas beside his two brothers. Francisco first language was Spanish
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Based on Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue”(Tan‚ 76-81) it is evident that language has an affect on our lives. Language defines the type of person I am generally and it has had an affect on my choices as well as my lifestyle. Language has become my way of seeing life in a different perspective. In Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue”(Tan‚ 76) she discusses the way the language that she was taught affected her life in so many ways. I can definitely relate to Tan’s essay since I as well came from a bilingual home. Like
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Philosophicus ‚“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” This quotation means language has no limit‚ it’s something that can be translated into a wide variety. Both Amy Tan in the essay‚ “Mother Tongue” and Richard Rodriguez in the essay‚ “Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” write about their struggle with their identities not only because of their race‚ but also the language there families speak. Amy Tan and Richard Rodriguez both struggled with there families language conflicting with the
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