Jose Rodriguez

Prof. Sarah Schmerler

ENG 1101 OL40

“Mother Tongue” By Amy Tan

 

Quotes Reflections
“Just last week, I was walking down the street with my mother, and I again found myself conscious of the English I was using, the English I do use with her”.

 

Pag 1

 I identify myself with this because it is what it usually happens when I talk to my mom, even though we’ve been here for the same amount of time, she does not speaks English very well, so I have to change my English level to an easy one for her to learn and understand.
“Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese”.

 

Pag 1

 Every time my mom comes to visit me and meet my friends we all have such a great and funny times, especially when she tries to communicate with them, some of my friends are always with a big smile on their faces trying to understand what my mom is saying and most of the time I have re-explain what she said.
“Then she began to talk more loudly. “What he want, I come to New York tell him front of his boss, you cheating me?” And I was trying to calm her down, make her be quiet, while telling the stockbroker, “I can’t tolerate any more excuses”.”

 

Pag 2

 This reminds me when I pretended to be my mom’s husband calling Amazon and fighting with their customer service about something that happened with one of my mom’s order, I was trying my best to be polite while she was behind my ear complaining to me in Spanish.
“The same true with word analogies, pairs of words in which you were supposed to find some sort of logical,  semantic relationship – for example, “Sunset is to nightfall as is to.” 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 spotlight, bus is to arrival, chills is to fever, yawn is to boring.”

 

Pag 3

 

 I totally  hate this part of English Grammar, it reminds me when I was at the English schools and  I remember telling my professor that none of this make sense, it was so hard and I struggle with this all the time as well with those exercises that you have to fill in the blank.