Coming from a foreign country, most people have a special English they speak within their family. Amy Tan in “Mother Tongue” she explains why she understands her husband’s English but others might not. "It 's because over the twenty years we 've been together I 've often used that same kind of English with him, and sometimes he even uses it with me. It has become our language of intimacy, a different sort of English that relates to family talk, the language I grew up with.” Tan’s cautious …show more content…
Richard Rodriquez in “Private Public Language” talks about how his parents talked a lot differently in public than they did in private. "In public, my father and mother spoke a hesitant, accented, not always grammatical English. And they would have to strain—their bodies tense—to catch the sense of what was rapidly said by los gringos.” Going of this, you can see the difficulties that are faced when society doesn’t seem to accept you. Seeing English as a public language and Spanish as a private language, Richard views English as a "tool to run his mother 's errands”. At home on the other hand, he felt as if his parents English was "Conveyed through those sounds was the pleasing, soothing…” Few people in the world, talk formally and proper English all the time. The worst thing is when someone who doesn’t speak proper is thought to be