| Page 3 paragraph 3 āfor example, āSunset is to nightfall as is to.ā And here you would be presented with a list of four possible pairs, one of which showed the same kind of relationship: red is to stoplight, bus is to arrival, chills is to fever, yawn is to boring: Well, I could never think that wayā.
Page 1 paragraph 4 āWe were talking about the rice of new and used furniture and I heard myself saying this: “not waste money that way.” My husband was with us as well, and he didn’t notice any switch in my English. And then I realized why. 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 our language of intimacy, a different sort of English that relates to family talk, the language I grew u with.ā |
I agree with amy tan in this sentence because sometimes English exams are a little confusing because there are some questions in English test that seen to have more than one right answer because as you read the sentence to fill out the blank space you see that most of then match and you donāt have any clue of whatās the right answer, in my opinion, English teachers should think about their students when they made this questions and if they are going to make questions like this they should make the answer a little different than the others, how? I donāt really know but they are teachers it means they know more than us about what they are doing so they can figure it out easier than us and not playing with studentās brains that are a little burnout already because of college.
I identify with this sentence because the type of language that I use with my friends, family, and girlfriend are super different, with my family, I always try to speak respectfully to everyone and I donāt speak fast but with my friends, the story is a lot different I talk to them without thinking I just let everything that came to my mind get out through my mouth without thinking of the words I say will make them feel bad or anything like that I just know that they know the true self that I donāt show to my family and my last type of English/Spanish is the one that I speak with my girlfriend, I have to be careful with most of the things Iām going to say because when I am with her I feel like if Iām with my friends and I usually donāt think about what Iām saying and we all know that men sometimes say lots of stupid things and I talk to her kindly and trying not to say anything that could hurt her and also being my self because I cannot try to be someone else with her I got use to talk to her like that, that like the author we have like our own intimacy language. |
| Page 2 paragraph 1 āLike others, I have described it to people as ‘broken” or “fractured” English. But I wince when I say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to e fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness.ā | This line made me a little sad because some people try their best to speak English they do courses to learn English and lots of other stuff just for other people not to judge them by the way or the language they speak, I felt a big connection with this line because Iām an immigrant and I came to this country 4 years ago and I didnāt know any English at all and I struggle a lot in school because I couldnāt understand the teachers and when I tried to speak English I got bullied by other students and I learned that I donāt have to judge people because of their language if I canāt communicate with them there are lots of other ways to communicate with people but you canāt ever think that you are superior to someone else because they donāt speak English. |
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