Position of Mother Tongue

Everyone has his or her mother tongue. No matter how many languages one handled, mother tongue is unique. When Amy talked about her mother tongue, it came different with her mother. Her mother cannot speak English well, others always confused about what she was talking about, although she can have normal working and communication, which is because her mother tongue is not English, so that she cannot express herself well. The author seems to be a bilingual, so she can know exactly what does mother tongue means to one. She said that the mother tongue can give her best feeling when she using that.
To me, mother tongue means a lot. When I read the part about her mother, I felt same things happened on myself. When I just arrived America, I cannot talk with Americans. At that time, I was so excited when I hearing my mother tongue. I felt warmness, happy, it seems I backed home. Now, my English is better, I can do a lot with English. Even though, when I try to say something with deep sensation today, Chinese still is the best way for me, as Amy said “So easy to read”.

Homework #2

Ten categories of skills that I brainstormed are listed as below:

1. study
2. work
3. acting
4. sports
5. cooking
6. communication
7. teaching
8. farming
9. arts
10. gaming

Many skills are under these categories, As an example, we can ask people about sports

1. organizing sports events
2. participating games
3. ability of single sports, like swimming, running, racing and so on
4. ability of team sports, like football, basketball and so on
5. extremely sports
6. being a judge in games
   
7. reporting sports games
8. fitness
9. electronic sports
10. being cheering squad

Words Language World

Words, it is not only means words itself, sometimes, words means the world. When we reading or listening something, the first we realized is language, then what we can understand. We can hardly understand anything without language. Words not only help us understand others and express ourselves better, but also form different kinds of culture, form history and the world. First, words helps us understand others and the world, also helps express how we feel. Almost all we can learn are from language: news, technology, history and so on; and so does what we want to express: sometimes we write diary, say something we feel happy or sad to friends or write them down. All of these are done with words, almost everything is based on words, nothing can be better than language. Second, language record history and helps descendant know it, to continue our civilization. In this way, we can say that words formed the world.

First day

Genesis

¹ First God made heaven & earth ² The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. ³ And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. ⁴ And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. ⁵ God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. ⁶ And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." ⁷ And God made the firmament and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. ⁸ And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. ⁹ And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. ¹⁰ God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.