In her article, “Mother’s tongue”, Amy Tan narrates the changes of cognition of her mother’s tongue based on her own experiences. She begins her essay by introducing herself as a writer instead of a scholar of English, which ingeniously makes a closer connection with readers. She describes three personal anecdotes from different time periods of her lifetime to create a comprehensive view for the definition of “Mother’s tongue”. The first one happened recently at her speech, which is the immediate cause for her to think more about different Englishes she uses in fornt of public and family. She made a comparison of the way she talks to her husband and to the audience. Then she digs further to her mother’s English, that is seen as “broken”,
