About “From Ghetto Lady to Critical Linguist”
Not only African-American people have accents when talking, most international students like us are facing linguistic problem like imperfect and broken English. We feel ourselves being unfairly treated by some locals because of our accents and somehow awful pronunciations of some words. However, English is our second language and which sometimes force me asking some Americans whether they can speak any other languages except Spanish. As we, students who might have accent and language barriers, are trying our best to improve our usage of English, local speakers should show respects and kindness rather than laughing and discriminating. Lots of my American friends are friendly in helping me improving my English which I really appreciated, language is tools of communication, therefore a better understand of English can help us perceive the society here.
About “Mother Tongue”
Living environment, especially people around us, plays a vital role in influencing our behavior in life and also the spoken language we using. We, kids, like imitating what father and mother do and say. That’s why we always saying parents are our first teacher in life. However, some students may fall in trouble because of their accents as their parents have, which may also affect on their friendship and socialization. Some students are ashamed to their parents and even blame at them, however in my opinion parents are people who give you the birth, we should be proud of what we have and try to preserve them. The best way to develop yourself is to keep what you have, and absorb what is new.
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