Learning a Language is Difficult

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English

 

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Daphne P

 

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June 11, 2016

 

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University

 

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A

 

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To Tan, her mother’s English is "perfectly clear, perfectly natural" (121). This dialect, Tan says, became their "language of intimacy, a different sort of English that relates to family talk, the language [she] grew up with" (120). This type of language creates an identity for Tan, one which she was ashamed of growing up...
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This feeling of shame later backfired as an adult in her fiction writing. She began to write stories using "all the English" she grew up with. As she found out, this change of her own conception of language enriched her writing and added to her ethos, "That was the language that had helped shape the way [she] saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world" (121)...
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