Different English Essay

The United States is made up of multiple cultures and race, but that’s not all, we also have different Englishes. While the main language in the US is English, people use different Englishes. What I mean by different Englishes depends on what group of people one is talking to. One English can be known as sophisticated English referring to talking to a professor. As opposed to the English we use with our friends. Everyone has a unique way of communicating. In the United States, after people learn English they realize they go from using one English to using different Englishes without knowing, in order to communicate, whether it be with parents, professors, or your own pets. Many people who migrate from one country to another have gone through

During my kinder year, I was put into an after school program type. I had to stay in the classroom, after every child had gone home, watching educational videos that helped me learn English. Sometimes the teacher would sit with me and read books to me. She would point out a word in the book and pronounced it slowly so I would be able to capture her mouth movement. Other days she would make me write basic words to learn to pronounce and write them. It was a lot of work for me to learn the standard English everyone knows. When I was in elementary school, no one at home knew English, so I would have to stay after class to ask for help when trying to do my homework. My sister assisted the same school I did, and she too had to stay after class, when school was over. It was very hard for my sister and me at first, but we both overcame our

Tan claims she uses “all the Englishes I grew up with.” I have also grown to use different Englishes depending on who my audience is. I have noticed that when I talk to my parents in English, it is not the perfect English I learned in school. Our conversations are more in simple terms and often we mix English with Spanish. I use the Spanish words in replacement of the words I know they would not understand in English. Same with Tan, when her mother speaks to her. Tan’s mother, for instance, stated “Why he don’t send me check, already two weeks late.” We can understand the point her mother is trying to make, but she does not know how to order the words so they can be more fluent and easier to understand. A correct way could be something like this: why hasn’t he send me the check? Two weeks have passed. Or something like