Response to "Mother Tongue"

I disagree with the writer of the essay, “Mother Tongue” because she thinks that her mother’s bad English affected her own English skills. I can understand while the mother’s English isn’t great because she was not a native in the United States. With different in culture, tradition, and language, it is very difficult to be able to learn and adapt to speak English like a native speaker. While that is true for the mother, I don’t think that would affect the writer. I have many perfect English speaker friends who have parents that are not native English speakers or don’t speak English at all.

I can relate with the writer’s situation since I am also an international student. But my parents never even lived in the United States before. When I first came to the United States for school, I came to Oregon and I hung out with mostly Americans. After I came to Michigan I started to hangout with more Taiwanese than Americans and I found out that my English has gotten worse. This is also another reason why I disagree with the writer saying that her mother’s bad English affected her English skills because her environment, which is being in America should have a lot more effect in making her English better.

The Capacity Inventory: ABCD

First Branstorming (ten different categories of skills):
Creative,
Musical,
Artistic,
Good at emotional control,
Good cook,
Patient,
Time control,
Communication,
Optmistic,
Healthy

Second Branstorming (different skills under artistic):
Painting
Craftsmanship
Handmade stuff
Drawing
Being unique
Designing
Sketching
Sewing
Perspective drawing
Creating new things

What is the relationship between language and how you perceive the world?

As a person who knows more than one language, I believe that language represents many things. For example; if you ever take a language class, one of the first things you learn from that class is the culture of the language. In that I mean the culture of the countries that use that particular language. Knowledge of cultures will lead to more understanding of languages for why certain expressions are said in a certain way. I agree with Bakhtin that the world and we are created when we speak and write. Everything in this world is described by words. Without words, neither feelings nor intelligence would exist in this world. Without feelings and intelligence, there is nothing. If there is nothing, it is not the world, at least to the human’s perspective. Language allows the world to communicate, express, and interact. Without language, the world would be in chaos.

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