Languages Differ in People's Daily Life

It's such a society that full of different ways to speak the same language. Just like in the essay "Mother Tongue", by Amy Tan, even mother and daugther use the same language in contrast ways, informal and formal styles. Some story examples are funny, but they are realistic and undienable. On the other hand, when people study second language like English, there would be couple of English words or phrases in their daily communication. This needs second-language people have a better self control than others.

In my family, my parents speak Chinese formally. In contrast, I'm always speaking informally. Thus there are some problems when we communicate with each other. The words they use are totally out of fashion, like something in 1970s movies. Besides, those sentences sound like in some certain forms. I understand that is because the education at that time was old style and students had to follow the teacher exactly, and then they all speak in the same certain stucture. For our young people, however, words are changable and flexiable. We speak in very casual and informal ways, which are regarded as not good or serious style.

In addition, there also could be some problems when a person has a second language. As comon sense, we understand people speaking different languages have trouble in communication. However, a second language person cannot even realize they add some foreign words in their mother tongue. It is normal but problems come at this time. A good example of myself. I've been studying in US for 17 months before I came back to China for summer. Obviously I add some English words or phrases in my daily Chinese sentences, which I cannot prevent honestly. While my parents usually shouted at me, "Do not speak any more birds language to me!" It's WEIRD.

Anyway, we are family and every problem can be solved. There tons of funny and fantabulous stories about languages and we can conclude that people speaking the same language still have problem between formal and informal styles and second-language people have to control themselves more.