Amy Tan is the writer of Mother tongue

Amy Tan is the writer of "Mother tongue" in the reading Tan explains how there are different languages and people are categories by the way they speak. For example tan explains on paragraph three how she was giving a talk to a large group of people then she notice that her mother was in the room and her mom had never heard her talk english that way. Tan speaks  a different language when shes with her family or husband.  There is more than one english theres different "englishes" that we all speak. we speak a different language to different people. Tan also explains on the reading how people who do not speak very well english are labeld as "limmited" english which she argues that  is not right to label people because of the way they speak. One thing that she indicates is that the languages that are spoken in the family especially in immigrant families plays a big role in shaping the languages of a child, she explains this in paragraph 14. Tan also explains how people can be raises because of the way you speak her mother had gone to the hospital because she had an appointment waiting so anxiaously for the CAT scan results the hospital had lost them and they did not apologize. she was wooried because her husband and son had died from brain tumor and they did not even show any sympathy. people can be juged and critize by the way they speak a language. Tan indicates how  a viarity of Asians go into math instead of english becuase thats what there really good at, but she decided to write. Tan learned that her mother is the one that helped her become the writer she is today.

 

 

In my own experiences i personally agree that with Tan how people do speak different languages which they have different tounges, but that does not give the right for others to be raises against those who you can say do not speak for example good english. That does not mean that person is not smart or doesn't know way there doing it basically does not defined the person. You can have an accent and people wont understand you, but that does not mean that you do not know what you are talking about. From my own experience i know people who have critize others because they do not speak good english or without an accent. and they are put down beacuse of the way they speak or they know the language, but do not want to speak it. One personal experince i had is when my grandma had to go to the doctor and i went with her beacuse she needed someone to translate for her we were waiting for a while and i had to go pick up my cousins and i was not going to make it in time to translate for my grandma and the girl in front desk spoke spanish so my grandma ask her if she can translate for her and i over herd the girl tell her co worker that she did not want to she did not like speakin spanish.