Tongue

Everyone learns to talk and express themselves everyday of their lives. Starting from the day you were born you used language or some form of it to communicate with those around you. As a baby you usually show your displeasure with your new surroundings by crying. As you continue to grow you learn the language around you and express yourself that way. I have obviously become more self-confident with the language i’ve been using for 17 years. It seems like something indescribable. At first, it…

Negative Influence of Mother Tongue on Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition ---Through Chinese Students Learning English Experience I. Definitions Mother tongue means the language which a person has grown up speaking from early childhood. It has a great influence on the second language acquisition. As professor Robert Lado emphasized in his book Linguistics Across Culture, that in the environment of the second language acquisition, learners depend on their mother tongue and transfer the…

In “Mother Tongue,” Amy tan describes when she uses different Englishes to interact with particular people in her life. By different Englishes she’s referred to Standard and Nonstandard English. One of the main reasons why Tan uses both of these Englishes is because majority of the people living in the United States they communicate by using different Englishes. Therefore Tan wants to be understood by the people who might speak or understand English differently. (Missing thesis) Standard…

members. In elementary school, the English language is learned and this helps individuals forget that a dissimilar language is spoken at home. Being bilingual can be beneficial, but it can also raise social and emotional issues. In the texts “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan and “Achievement of Desire” by Richard Rodriquez the readers are able to experience how bilingualism can affect the way individuals interact. Sometimes the language spoken at home is different from the language spoken in the…

Article Review In the article “The Devil’s Tongue”, the author looks to answer two questions; How did the epidemic gather so much speed, and how did it come to involve a satanic plot? Both of these answers lie in an Indian slave named Tituba. In early 1692, many young women started to act differently. “They contorted violently; the complained of bites and pinches. They alternately interpreted sermons and fell mute…” The local people had no great explanation for all of this so, the women were…

goal and re-state the claim to be addressed in your analysis essay. Has the author's goal changed with this analytical reading of the text? If so, how? If not, why not? In a literal analysis of the article, Tan states in her subtitle that "Mother Tongue" is about creating an argument against making judgments based on a person command of the English language. In approaching the text from an analytical perspective, the initial message is supported and expanded upon. Tan claims that by falling…

“Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan is a story about the different ways to speak English she used to communicate with different people throughout her childhood. I agree with her that our intelligence is judged by the way we speak. Tan described that the language she was taught in her family by her mother’s tongue has affected her English greatly. As a child, she often felt ashamed when she observed that her mother was disrespected by bank services, department stores and restaurants. Many formal English…

The very subject matter of war is not easy to digest, especially when you experience the gruesome, honest and heartbreaking tales from the perspectives of various eyes throughout Tony Barnstone’s Tongue of War. Throughout his collection, readers experience a raw honesty that is nothing like they have encountered before and that makes the discussion that more interesting as we course the emotions and thoughts Barnstone created within his audience page after page. However, the experience of a poem…

she is talking to based on his or her voice. One’s voice that he or she obtains helps defeine who he or she is. The voice a person has in the beginning of their life, is influenced by how he or she was raised. In Zadie Smith’s essay “Speaking in Tongues” she disscusses how when people grow older they are exposed to people that have multiple voices and use those multiple voices to help to connect to other people. As well as when someone gets older their own voice has changed because of all the…

a very different set of circumstances than an average English-speaking household when it comes to communicating. In her article, “Mother Tongue,” she dives into her past, sharing the language struggles she saw her mother encounter, along with her own battles with finding her literary voice. What she found in the end was that we all, regardless of native tongue, use many levels to our language, and we shift between those levels, depending on who we perceive our audience to be at any given time.…