Tan says she uses "all the English I grew up with." I noticed that when I speak to my parents in English, it is not the perfect English that I learned at school. Our conversations are more in simple terms and we often mix English and Spanish. I use Spanish words as a substitute for words that I know they wouldn't understand in English. Same with Tan, when his mother talks to him. Tan’s mother, for example, said: “Why didn’t he send me a check, already two weeks late. » We can understand the point her mother is trying to make, but she doesn't know how to order the words so that they flow more smoothly and are easier to understand. The correct way might be something like this: why didn't he send me the check, two weeks have passed or something like