"Mother's Tongue"

Today was another typical day in class. We read the essay "Mother's Tongue" by Amy Tan. This essay was mainly about how the author notices that she uses different versions of english based on who she is talking to. She tells about how she speaks a broken english with her mother and husband, but speaks excellent english with others. She then tells about how her mother speaks a sort of broken english. Because of this, people sometimes assume that her mother is not very intelligent or inferior to them even though she is a very intelligent woman. We were then given a prompt for an argument based around language and we wrote our arguments for it. Overall, it was a nice day in class.

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