- Learning English and then relearning Chinese (struggle throughout high school)
- My mom used to say i was so fluent in Chinese (story when i yelled at 2 boys for playing with my dolls in Chinese)
- My whole family all speaks english, my mom took a beginners Chinese class before i was adopted
- Social media vs school language
- Social media: i use "same" "omg" "lol" "haha" and include a lot of emojis in my text
- School: I use proper sentence structure with punctuation and smart sounding words when i try to make sentences flow
- Theme: change and growth: Chinese was my first language, had to learn english when i was 4 (lost Chinese), and all through high school i took Chinese as my language and tried to re learn it
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Essay #1: Idea Draft
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We both come from a pretty equal language past. Are you also a second generation child? You know the sad news is we will most likely have children who will not speak our cultured language because they say 3rd generation never know.
ReplyDeleteHello, Your draft was great! I would just focus on expanding your examples and making connections to the readings; other than that your'e on the right track.
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