My First Language Analysis

“Just cuz I not haole, no mean I can’t tok English” America was the last place I expected to live in when I was 9 years old. As much as I didn’t want to live here I wanted my family to be altogether. Kauai, Hawaii is no city like but just filled with mountains, beaches, forests, etc. and I absolutely didn’t like it because it seemed boring. It got difficult for me everyday having to learn a new language, which is English that I was certainly bad at, meeting people I can’t even understand and that would make fun of me because of how I speak, and just being afraid of my surroundings. It was a whole another experience that I had to face. I’m full Filipino born and raised in the Philippines so my mother tongue or my main language is Ilocano but I knew how to speak Tagalog as well. I speak these languages along with my family while having conversations and being here in Hawaii for 13 years made me glad that I haven’t forgotten to speak our native tongue. I’m a person that knows more than one language and like Lisa Kanae not only she can speak standard English but also Creole English, which is “pidgin”, that’s very common here in the state. Kanae’s Sista Tongue taught me how to be more proud of myself being able to speak more than one language. Speaking pidgin or being bilingual is not retarded or handicapped, it symbolizes my culture, my ethnicity, where I come from. In Hawaii, most people speak Standard English but there’s also called Hawaii Creole English that’s also known as Pidgin. This specific language is what some people refer it to as broken English because of how it’s …show more content…
English is becoming the national language around the world but most people also speak other languages and nothing is wrong with that situation. I can speak Standard English, pidgin English, Ilocano, and Tagalog and that says that I’m proud of what I am and what language I