In the article “Mother Tongue”, Amy tan explains how hard it is for Asian Americans to work in the U.S through the difficulties of the English language and emphasizes that we have own language in different group. One day, she realized that she used two different types of English. One is academic language learned from books which she never use to her mother. The other of her “Englishes” was when walking with her mother and husband, she said “not waste money that way” which is an intimate language used only in her family. “I was ashamed of her English.” She said. Her mother’s “limited” English contradicts how much she actually comprehends, this reminds that even if her mother’s English seem “limited” it does not reflect her intelligence. She maintains that people do not taking her word seriously in any scene, so her mother let her call people on the phone and act to get pay attention. …show more content…
For example in her experience, she notices that Asian students actually do better in math tests than in language tests, and she questions whether or not other Asian students are discouraged from writing or directed in the direction of math and science. Amy chose English major and decide to become a writer even other subjects such as mathematics and science were much stronger than her English skills. In the very end of essay, Amy said “Apart from what any critic had to say about my writing, I knew I had succeeded where it counted when my mother finished reading my book and gave me her verdict: “So easy to read.”.” Amy keep trying to write essays with intimate style for her mother. That is the keys to