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Language, the most important aspect of our life but for some people, it is the most complicated aspect of there life that we don’t realize. reading the article “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan made realize as if I am reading my own thought that I had 3 years ago. I came to this country more than 4 years ago and almost forget how hard and stressful the first year of school was. First few months I wasn’t able to speak or understand English but as the year pass by I able to understand everything but did not involve any kind of outside conversation because I was scared that they might make fun of my English. the article expresses the same idea. I am still not sure that my English is perfect not. back then I was the only person who speaks English and I was responsible to take everyone to doctor or any kind of official needs that required speaking English but I wasn’t fluent either. Reading about Mrs. Tan’s struggle got me thinking did they done the same thing to me, not giving priority or ignoring me. if they did something like I would able to tall because everything was new to me. The part where Amy Tan says that her being better at math and science than English does not apply to not because that I did wall on English and poor on math. In fact, it was opposite I never did well in English or any literature class not even that when I was in Bangladesh I would get the same score in English and Bangla, so doing poor in English classes does not justify by my inability of English language. I never enjoy English or Bangla classes I as I enjoy math and science. The second article was confusing to me or I was fixating with the first article and did not understand the other article.