Amy Tan Mother Tongue Summary

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Amrish Patel
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May 28, 2016 Mother Tongue, by Amy Tan A language can tell many things about a particular person’s identity. Through the medium of language only, a person can define himself to another person. Those immigrants who speak with a Italian,Chinese or Indian accent when he or she speaks English which may be tell that English is a second language for those immigrants and also their grammar may be a little different and people will think that he or she speaks “bad English” but the reality is different, it is just a result of grammar from another language being adopted into the person’s speech when they speak English and as a result they speak their own dialect. A lots of people came to America, …show more content…

Here the narrator put her own example of her mother. In this essay, the author(tan) shows the comparison between the non-standard English(Tan’s mother speak and other Immigrants ) and fluent English; how the people who speaks English as second …show more content…

The narrator also explains about her mother's limited English and broken English which made the narrator to learn mistakes that her mother did during the CAT scan and the phone call with the stockbroker for her mother's money check. All the mistakes done by her mother make her daughter learn in her young age about how to talk and write better English. “The Mother tongue “ generally focus on the immigrants like Amy Tan ,she explain that “ Asian student, as a whole, always do significantly better on math achievement test than in English” ( Tan 179). who was a Asian-American whose maths and science were good but her mother tongue grammar is different than the English grammar, and then they face problem in the English. Tan’s mom also face the same problem as other immigrants faced the problem of Imperfect English due to their mother tongue. Even though Tan’s friends didnot understand Tan’s mother properly while she reads a Forbes reports. By watching her mother’s problem the Tan decided to write a book on mother tongue to show these stereotypical discriminations that every Asian-American face on the basis of Mother Tongue and then they lost their identity within their

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