Throughout my life Iâve been hearing the words or even sentences in conversations âbroken Englishâ ânot correctâ ânot properâ âitâs not the right wayâ âthatâs not how you say itâ. In this story by âJamila Lyiscottâ three Way to speak English. She talks about her experience in life where people will judge towards her way of speaking âEnglishâ and even her self correcting others. Except she explains how she speaks 3 different types of English so is there really a wrong way? Or is it wrong because each English has rules ?.  She calls herself articulate which means The ability to speak fluently. As she stated âIâve decided to treat all three of my languages as equals because I am articulateâ Which means in Her world she doesnât care what others have to say because itâs understandable they have  rules. But it wouldn’t stop her from speaking how ever she wants. But depending the people sheâs around would have to talk different for example she said around white people her answer is tainted with a connotation of urbanize. Jamila also says some people may say she talks hood but itâs still English itâs just not someone elseâs English perhaps âhoodâ English or slang has it rules also. I can totally relate as my father is foreign and for him to come to America he didnât speak English at all but over the years he learned!!.  way he speaks isnât the same as the way I speak since Iâm born in America. I guess people say I speak English more clearly but with my dad he speaks broken English and grammar can be very different also.  I was one of those people who would say especially to my dad âthatâs not how you say itâ but after I read this article by Jamila I figured she is right thereâs no right or wrong of how to speak English except what stops us from thinking that is ârulesâ & âcorrections. and this is no secret but I may be born in America but I do not speak perfect English. On the other hand I watched a video by tans he was speaking about how his family knows fluent Spanish but he doesnât but itâs still didnât stop him from him learning his own language and him to be involved in the tradition and music. He states âitâs not lying if I feel somethingâ and âyour just suppose to feel itâ. I understand completely that I am also a person who doesnât know her language fluently but tries to learn and yes Iâve made progress but I am not fluently yet but I can become if I keep feeling without feeling you wonât take it as serious and wonât learn.
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This OpenLab site accompanies Jackie Blain’s synchronous ENG 1101 course for Fall 2020. The Course Materials are here (Assignments, Resources, How-to Videos) as well as the Class Discussion blogs. We’re all about writing in multiple digital and analogue situations, for multiple purposes… and investigating and talking about issues by asking questions. Lots of questions.
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