Q4. Amy Tan does describe several different “Englishes” that she speaks. She says, “The English I spoke to my mother, which for lack of a better term might be described as a “simple,” She meant pretty much what she says, as one of her “Englishes” being the “simple” English that she speaks with her family. This English is their “language of intimacy” in which she says she relates and grew up with. Another one of her “Englishes” would be the one she uses to speak for her mother. There is no specific name she uses for it, but it is something that she has grown to do for her mother because of her “limitation” of the English language. Amy also has her more refined and intellectual English, in which she shows her English major side. Using this more
