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Mother Tongue
1. Summary
The writer of this essay, ¡°Mother tongue¡±, Amy Tan is a Chinese-American. Her mother is Chinese immigrant, and Tan was born in the United States. ... In detail, she recognized that she spoke 2 type of Englishes, one was standard English which she used in public, and the other one was the informal English that is different sort of English, which she used with her mother who used English as a second language.
She analyzed her mother¡¯s English usually called ¡°broken¡±, ¡°fractured¡± or ¡°limited¡± (p. ... She felt ashamed of her mother¡¯s English when she was growing up. Actually, she thought mother¡¯s broken language reflected imperfection of her thoughts. She recounted some experiences she had had with her mother, because of her mother¡¯s broken language, such as bad service at the department stores to her mother, making phone calls instead of her mother, visiting New York to meet stock broker and ignorance of a doctor of the hospital.
Approximate Word count = 595
Approximate Pages = 2.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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