As we all know English language has a long and interesting history. Amy Tan’s story tells us about English or American language? Do we all know that English language and American a similar but still different? On my opinion the argument of the writer is that there is no rules in language we can implement and use with every conversation we have. It’s not a math or science where we can you the same rule for every equation. And different rule for another one. The title “Mother Tongue” is just trying to give us an idea from the first words of the story, that this story would be not about what words you’re using, it is going about what you mean when you’re telling this words and what people understand when they hear it. From the history of the United States of America we all came from different parts of the world where we used, maybe similar, maybe different language in our daily life, but when we came here we get a necessity to communicate and cooperate. So the audience is the people who came to this country and adopt the English as the second language, basically all of us. This story is about the people who is using English as the first language, it tells them not to judge people for whom English is native, but also for ESL people who shouldn’t be afraid, and get closed from outside world, but to speak and succeed in learning English and become part of society. It is important for her because of two reasons, first she came from the family of immigrants where English wasn’t the first language, she learned it and become a writer and the second, part of her Chinese roots, in her mom, will always stays inside of her and she will never forget where she came from.

I came from Ukraine and my native language is Russian. I have a lot of friends from countries based after USSR separation and when we meet we all speak Russian. Over the years I spend in US I got friends for whom English is the main language and I often ask them to tell me the mistakes I make during my conversations with them. With their help I significantly improved it and continue improvement, but as Amy Tan, I will never give up my first language and will always remember the road I came from.