In my overview of Mother's Tongue by Amy Tan, I attempt to bring more context to the Language Barrier which for Foreign citizens in certain areas of America and other countries is a pretty big problem for non-english speaking people living in a english speaking country.
I do think this article is very interesting to show how to overcome adjusting to another country’s culture and transcending the language barrier in the said country. Which is what the author’s goal in trying to define inside the article seeing as Amy Tan and her mother were Chinese in heritage.
In reading Mother’s Tongue which is a short story of a non-english speaking family living in America, it shows how language barriers can be very hard to come by in living in foreign territories. Which is a pretty big problem in certain areas of America, Asia, and some European areas.
When I first read the article I haven't seen anything like it, I have never seen anything that tackled the Language Barrier issue that no one really talks about anymore and it is still a problem today. Which is shame because this isn't really recognized in the
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As Amy quotes “My mother’s expressive command of English belies how much she actually understands. She reads the Forbes, listens to Wall Street Week, converses daily with her stockbroker, reads Shirley MacLaine’s books with ease—all kinds of things I can’t begin to understand.” She then goes to say that “Some of my friends tell me they understand 50% of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80%, and others say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese.” But Amy’s mother’s tongue is Vivid, Direct, full of observation and imagery. It was the language that helped shape Amy ’s view of things, Expression, and sense of the