Amy_Tan

Amy Tan Response paper When reading the article “Mother Tongue,” I was surprised to see that my mother was a little bit like Amy Tan’s mother. My mother has been living in California for about 30 years, but she still uses a little bit of broken English. The only difference is the fact that Amy Tan speaks to her mother in Chinese, while they are at home. My mother, on the other hand, has never tried to teach me how to speak Spanish, although I think it would have been a great opportunity for me while I was growing up. My father is the same way, he is from the Middle East (Jordan), yet he has never bothered to teach me how to speak Arabic. My father has been living in America for about the same number of years as my mother, and like her, he uses a little bit of broken English as well. I believe that the only reason why they speak with broken English Is because they have relatives that live in America, that they see all the time, and these relatives mother, america, immigrants, country, speak, people, little, english, bit, way, receive, opportunities, live, broken, been, article, years, while, understand, teach, same, relatives, never, living, greater, great, father, difference, chinese, believe, because, amy, about, young, yet, work