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"The Spanish language.... held Latino community together like glue....But in my case it was what kept me apart"(2).
"I was left wondering where I fit in"(2).
Barrientos explains how she was proud of not speaking Spanish until she was older and she uses smilies to emphasis the importance of language in her culture. She, along with Tan explain they felt alone or "left out" and emphasis it greatly.

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"I was ashamed of her English."(2)
"I was sitting there red-faced and quiet"(2)
-Amy Tan's repetition on embarrassment is used in a way to drive her main point to the audience. She mixes up her phrases by simply stating she is embarrassed or through imagery such as her 'red face" during her meeting between a banker and her moms broken english

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“I am a writer. And by that definition, I am someone who has always loved language. I am fascinated by language in daily life. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language -- the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all -- all the Englishes I grew up with.”

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Se habla español by Tanya Barrientos (P. 2)

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Se habla español by Tanya Barrientos (P. 2)

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“Then came the backlash. During the two decades when I’d worked hard to isolate myself from the stereotype I’d constructed in my own head, society shifted. The nation changed its views on ethnic identity. College professors started teaching history through African American and Native American eyes. Children were told to forget about the melting pot and picture America as a multicolored quilt instead. Hyphens suddenly had muscle, and I was left wondering where I fit in.”

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In “Mother tongue” the author’s mother is looked down on for speaking spanish and having what society calls “broken english”. The author also grows and changes over time and realizes that her mother's english isn't broken, and that there are many different types of English.

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In “Se habla Espanol” the author is brought up to believe that speaking spanish means poverty, and that she should be proud of not speaking spanish. But as she grew up her perceptions changed, and she realised that spanish was a language she wanted to learn and was a part of a heritage she was proud of.

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"The Spanish language was supposedly the glue that held the new Latino community together.
But in my case it was what kept me apart. I felt awkward among groups whose conversations
flowed in and out of Spanish. I’d be asked a question in Spanish and I’d have to answer in
English, knowing this raised a mountain of questions. I wanted to call myself Latina, to finally
take pride, but it felt like a lie. So I set out to learn the language that people assumed I already
knew."

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In “Mother tongue” it is seen that the outside world of America looks down on her. Since she doesn’t speak english she is seen as lower class and uneducated. For example on page 3 doctors refuse to listen to her due to her “broken english”

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In “Se habla Espanol” it is her own culture that looks down on her. She feels like they don’t see her as a true hispanic woman due to her lack of knowledge in speaking spanish. While she is accepted by the american side she is not accepted by her fellow hispaics.

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"Still, she said, the
hospital did not apologize when they said they had lost the CAT scan... And when the doctor finally
called her daughter, me, who spoke in perfect English -- lo and behold -- we had assurances the CAT scan would be found"

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Society’s perceptions of individuals are colored by language.

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Society’s perceptions of individuals are colored by language.

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In both readings there is an outside group that looks down on the individual.

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In both readings there is an outside group that looks down on the individual.