Response to Mother Tongue

After I read this article, I found this is about the way we speak. There’s something in this article which is as same as my life. Actually, my mother’s Chinese Mandarin is not as good as mine. She has heavy accent. So sometimes I have to help her fix it in the right way. But sometimes I am just like her, saying something not right, and this may makes others confused with what I’m talking about. From this article, I learned that this is the way my mother usually speaks and it deeply influences me, which makes me speak like her, act like her. So this is Mother Tongue.

As to the difference between different generations, I think it must be the different things they went through, the different societies they lived in and the different values they had.

The biggest difference between formal and informal languages would be the different situations they are in, like spoken language and written language. Spoken language is a informal format while written language is formal.

In my life, I’ve encountered in so many kind of languages. One of them would be the body language. This kind of language is the strongest one I’ve ever seen before, for if one cannot speak the language in another country, this language is extremely useful. I’ll take my parents as an example. My parents have been in America these days. They cannot speak English, only some words but not any sentence. However, they just used the body language and some words, then they traveled around almost the whole Delaware State. I have to say that body language is really a useful language.

This is my response to this article.