Essays About Language Barriers

I cannot give you much more man personal opinions on the English language and its variations in mis country or others." Does tins opening remark add to her credibility or detract from it? The opening remark Amy Tan makes at the beginning of her short story “Mother Tongue” adds to her credibility as a narrator because she reveals that she is giving the reader her story, and not trying to inform or teach us.Since Tan is giving her opinion, her experience gives us confidence that she knows what she is......Amy Tan’s Mother Tongue Thesis Sentence: Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” is about the immigrant experience and how lack of proficiency in the foreign language leads people to view an intelligent person in a not very flattering light.One need not discern the reason, as Amy herself shares it.

I cannot give you much more man personal opinions on the English language and its variations in mis country or others." Does tins opening remark add to her credibility or detract from it? The opening remark Amy Tan makes at the beginning of her short story “Mother Tongue” adds to her credibility as a narrator because she reveals that she is giving the reader her story, and not trying to inform or teach us.

Here in the United States when someone does not speak English well or speaks a broken version of the language many tend to think less, enforce......D.

Tan, Amy, “Mother Tongue”---395 words begins her essay with the disclaimer, " I am not a scholar of English or literature.

In the world there are many different ways of communicating, gestures, facial expressions, body language, certain sounds, and, of course, our words (Shukla).

However, languages are differnt all over the world.

His joy speaks all: “Talk me more, you, plus, please, plus.” Comparing the experience of Sedaris, of speaking a foreign language with that of Amy’s mother, her mother had to pass through irritating situations.

Amy’s mother’s English was comparatively poorer; her acquaintances could hardly manage what she spoke but to someone like Amy, her English was totally understandable.Societies are increasingly multicultural and multi-lingual and languages are in a state of flux.In this scenario, the requirements of language need to be redefined, making Tan’s essay very interesting.The situation in the article, “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” by David Sedaris, is totally different.Sedaris is venturing to learn the skills of French language at the age of forty-one, rightly feeling like a “true debutant” but the environment at the school intimidates him as all students in the school speak the language confidently, and their outfits are also very trendy, which further adds to the feeling of insecurity in Sedaris (Sedaris 1).It was the reason why Amy’s mother used to ask her daughter to manage her phone calls by disguising as Amy’s mother, not Amy so that her remarks were taken seriously.Amy’s mother used to omit the use of nouns, pronouns, and the verbs while conveying messages (Tan 2).She writes in polished English selecting grammar structures and words which render her thoughts precisely but this language is out of use in her family as her mother uses English just to meet her basic communicative needs.This story shows that the use of any language heavily depends on the situation where it takes place......which it is normally spoken.(“Language Barrier in Mother Tongue and Me Talk Pretty One Day Essay”, n.d.) Language Barrier in Mother Tongue and Me Talk Pretty One Day Essay.Retrieved from https://studentshare.org/literature/1453204-language-barrier... Comparing ‘Only Daughter’ and ‘Mother Tongue’ In a way it may be observed that though Amy Tan and Sandra Cisneros havehad distinct origins in terms of nationality, culture, language, and general environment in which they were brought up, the readers of ‘Mother Tongue’ and ‘Only Daughter’ by the respective authors may recognize significant points of similarity.