Amy Tans Story Mother Tongue Essay -- Amy Tan Mother Tongue

Amy Tans Story Mother Tongue A good character of Americans today speak English as their first language. However, what makes us distinguishable is that it is rare to find both people that speak the exact same(p) English. This is the argument Amy Tan makes in her history Mother Tongue. A first-generation Asian American, Tan emigrated from China to Oakland, California, where she became a famous writer. She shares her personal story of the English she speaks, and how much the people you are around can assortment the way you converse. While at home, she speaks to her mother in a disjointed sort of choppy English that she can understand. When she is talking to people she work with or deals with on a more business-oriented basis, she uses clearly spoken, grammatic all(prenominal)y correct, stock English. It was not until giving a speech in a live that her mother was a part of that she finally realized how different her two forms of English really are. Mother Tongue by Amy Tan, was written for all kinds of people. Those who, like her mother, speak a broken form of English, those who speak a more...