Mother Tongue

message. “Mother tongue”, an essay written by Amy tan, “explores ‘all the Englishes’ that are part of her identity”. The story focuses on the prejudices of Tan and her mother and the limitations that imperfect English can impose on society and the richness that such English could bring into writing. Which scrutinizes…

not say the word bowl in my French class and instead said everything that relates to a bowl instead of the actual word itself. The two topics that I have chosen to support and explain both my experiences are Sauce Bearnaise syndrome and Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon and they will be explained below. On an ordinary Saturday morning in 2013 I had woken up with a stomach ache and did not take it serious. A couple of hours later I made myself a Lipton Cup of soup for lunch…

How do you feel about piercings? Have you ever been sitting in class and other student’s body modifications distracted you? Answer my questions honestly. I think piercings express a person’s self-expression. Pointing piercings out is a ginormous waste of class time and causes more of a disturbanceto point out than to let them go. Some people might say that piercings are distracting to other students in the classroom, they really aren’t. I think people should be able to have piercings in school.…

Find needle, no needle, thumb tack will do. Mirror for placement. Adrenaline rush followed by pain. No turning back now. Struggle to get through cartilage, frustration arises. “Pop!” followed by pinching. IT IS THROUGH! Now pull thumb tack out and stick earring through. This was the steps from the first time I unprofessionally, with little sanitation added a new hole to my nose. I have never been grounded, but this was the first time my parents have ever grounded anyone. This reaction that…

As I read the body rituals that Miner describes such as “inserting a small bundle of hog hairs into the mouth and moving that bundle around in the mouth, also visiting a holy-mouth man once or twice a year who uses a variety of tools to locate any tooth decay, references men scraping and lacerating the surface of the face with a sharp instrument” it was easy to identify these to our routines of brushing our teeth, going to the dentist and a man shaving his face. I believe Miner is referring to…

Thematic Observation In these two poems, both of them are describing the culture of Hong Kong. In “Mother Tongue”, the writer Tegan Smyth is half-breed of Hakka Chinese and Australia. She writes about languages, culture, and humanity, etc. This poem has illustrated that language plays an absolutely necessary and important role in awaring cultural identity as expected. Lots of expressions and characteristics of the two different places were frequently used to represent the difference between…

When I was younger, my mother worked as a private interpreter which led us to spend a majority of our summers traveling around Europe. Although I can honestly admit I do not remember much from the foreign locales we visited, I recall vividly how my mother would speak the languages. Yana, my mother, was fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, English, German, Italian, and proficient in both Polish and French. The words slipped off her tongue in the same fluidity and gracefulness of a ballerina on stage and…

The child's delay in speech is a problem that disturbs many mothers. The mothers see the difference between her child and the others around him/her, including his/her siblings. Although the process of developing speech and pronunciation in children is almost constant. The ages when children begin to talk vary from child to child, so the mother should not compare their speech delay with other children. In addition, the mothers need to recognize the scale of speech in the young to assess her/…

the mother sits alone thinking for her own pleasure as long as she can in order to get away from her busy life. The first two stanzas of the poem show that the mother has diapers on the line and that there is a doll laying out in the house, though the mother wants time for thinking. Ergo she sits outside in a chair doing nothing. The diapers and the doll show that the mother has responsibilities such as taking care of her children’s diapers and cleaning up the house. However, the busy mother…

as a child. Intelligent people are expected to speak the finest, but your dialect also depends on the surroundings you developed in. Coming from a foreign country, most people have a special English they speak within their family. Amy Tan in “Mother Tongue” she explains why she understands her husband’s English but others might not. "It 's because over the twenty years we 've been together I 've often used that same kind of English with him, and sometimes he even uses it with me. It has become…