Blog #3

Amy Tan describes her "Mother's Tongue" as the way her mother spoke, her way of communicating in English. She explains that people may see improper English as a form of limitation. In many way, when an individual can hardly speak proper English, it can come off as an uneducated version of the language. Amy Tan was ashamed to say that her mother's limited English did limit her perception of her mother. Now grown and matured Amy Tan realizes that was not the case at all. Although her mother couldn't speak proper English like the other Americans, her words weren't affected as she thought they were. She still had important things to say whether she was understood correctly or not. Amy Tan tries to force her readers to not jump to the conclusion of thinking that limited language skills are a disability or even an uneducated form of speech.