In the essay we can see how Amy Tan and her mother was emotionally and mentally affected by the fact of standard English. When theres no such thing as standard or broken English, people are the one who define a person’s Imperfect English using those terms. Basically with the English we use grammar, punctuation, tense in order to make our words more understable but we can see Amy’s mother would skip that part most of the time will make it harder to understand for people when  Amy made it sound like they purposely don’t try to understand or they ignore which might be not true. Because when they don’t understand what you are speaking they wouldn’t make you talk constantly rather than that they would just ignore the entire phrase.Also we have seen Amy were adapting her mother language as well as she said, ”not waste Money that way” which is fine if she wants to make her mom understand but isn’t actually okay if she’s using it regularly as its against the law of English language. But does it mean her mom need to fix or she need to abandon that language? I would say her mom need to improve her English not fix and Amy can help her  with that also mother tongue are not for abandon;are for respect, that’s the language that made every other language easy.