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In the article "Mother Tongue", the writer tells us a personal story. She tells us that her mother speak a poor English and it brings both she and her mother many troubles because language is such a important tool for us to communicate in our day-to-day lives. After read the whole article, what touch me the most is that "But to me, my mother's English is perfectly claer,perfectly natural. It's my mother tongue. Her language, as I herd it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things,expressed things, made sense of the world."(Ton 65)
I am totally inspried by the writer. Althought her mother speaks such a poor language, which is defined "broken and limited" by others, she still regards it as "perfect". I think it just because there is a mood in it. We should all have a mother tongue in our heart, no matter how bad it is, it is still our mother tongue. It reminds me of my dialect. I come from China, but apart from chinese, there are many dialects in China. As we know, with the development of the modern society, English, which is the offical language in the world, become more and more important, people pay more attention to it and ignore their original mother tongue. It sounds strange to me that someone feel shame of can not speak English but take it for grant of can not speak dialect. It is the dialect that give us the first sense of the world and accompany us to grow up. It is the dialect that show the history of our mothertown. we should regard it with thankful feeling as we regard our mother. No matter how limited it can be used and how broken it is , it should still be there, in our heart because it is the origin of the warm when we are in a strange country. also, it has a warm name----- mother tongue.




work cited
Ton, Amy mother tongue "A reader for writess"