Mother Tongue by Amy Tan Amy Tan starts her essay clarifying she is not a scholar of English or literature,

but a writer. She also explains how fascinating the language is for her. Later she talks about a lecture she had some time ago Tan was talking about her writing, her life, and one of her books. Then she reali es her mother was hearing her. She begins to reflect on the English she used to speak with her mother it is important to emphasi e that they both come from !hina. Tan"s mother spoke !hinese as her mother tongue, but she also spoke English a #ery !hinese$English. Tan reflects on the way her mother used to speak, and the experiences she had to li#e because of her %broken& or %fractured& English. She also thinks o#er how this situation influenced in her life goals and in how she was treated in real life when her mother attended a restaurant or a hospital, she was not treated as another English speaker. 'er daughter was the responsible of assuring a good ser#ice when she was in the middle (ust because she has always had a perfect English. The author makes a reflection on her experiences with English language. She confirms she did it better with English language than in )ath. 'owe#er, she did not get the best grades on her English tests because she had sort of different language skills as an example, she suggested there would be a lot of possible answers when filling up blank spaces in a sentence. After learning her thoughts on the different kinds of English she used whether her mother and outside her house, Tan tell us about the stereotypical idea about the a#erage Asian s*he does it better in )ath. Later she talks about how bad she was at writing, but then she started to write fiction. +or that work, Tan decided to use all the Englishes she grew up with. She saw those moments, those attempts as her mother"s intent, her passion, her imagery, and the nature of her thoughts pointing out the most rele#ant ones.