Something about Mother Tongue.

The writer is an Asian American and her family is an immigration family from China. Both of these two points push me close to the writer and the article. Impressed deeply by Amy’s vivid words and expressions, I’m thinking this interesting topic about mother tongue. I always complain about my English writing because it’s too hard for me to write down my true feeling in English. No matter how many times I tried, it failed to do so. And I even don’t know why. But the writer gave me some ideas about that, “ a person’s developing language skills are more influenced by peers. The language spoken in the family, especially in immigrant families which are more insular, plays a large role in shaping the language of the child.” Even though I’m not a child of immigrant family, I could say maybe I’m the immigrant family member cuz I left China when I was 19. The articles I wrote as if all reveal that: I’m not a native speaker.

Many people around the world, especially Chinese people, often ask this question, why there are so many talented Chinese writers through the refulgent Chinese literature history, but no one ever has won a Nobel Prize? I think this is also a broad sociological question which is hard to answer. In my opinion, that’s mainly because the translation problem. Chinese is a language which is so complex that rare people could translate it into other languages. The Chinese author’s emotion was perfused on every words. The tiny changes of the order or rhyme will lead to the big different in meanings. Mother Tongue is the happy symbol of the writer between her and her mother. But I hope this kind of “tongue” could disappear, for further communication between the people throughout the world.

The Capacity Inventory.

Ten different categories of skills and ten different skills of Office:

1. Office

Typing
Operating Photoshop Software
Word Processing
Filing Alphabetically/Numerically
Shorthand or Speedwriting
Dealing with machinery problems
Entering Information into Computer
Using office software (Word,Powepoint,Excel..)
Writing all kinds of letters
Knowing some foreign languages

2.Repair

3.Food

4.Art

5.Sports

6.Operating Equipment

7.Supervision

8.Instruments

9.Communication

10.Entertainments

The relationship between language and how you perceive the world.

Where was the language from? Ancient people found it difficult to express themselves just by dancing and drawing, so language appeared. With the language, human beings could directly share their feelings with others and solve many problems in daily life. As time goes by, language gradually became a tool to know and expand the world, using language really helps to acknowledge some data and makes it easier to perceive others’ emotion even the whole world..
Well, as mankind get familiar with the world they live, more words are created for the new usages of the world, in this way, language is developed. In addition, when there are some new phenomena, human will think out some new words to describe them. This kind of change also let human beings get more hapiness from the language, because they will be better understood and communicate without toughs. So language get improved by human’s perceive of the world.
I think language and how human perceive the world are interactive. They promotes each other by time, creation and development of the world and lives in the world.