Mother Tongue

Today we read a book titled "Mother's Tongue." It was a quite interesting book. The book talk about how a lady spoke differently around her family and peers. She was an intelligent asain lady, who was very fluent in english. Her mother was also intelligent, but her english was not very good.

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