"Mother Tongue" 3434 unread replies.3434 replies. Two questions concerning Tan's variety of Englishes. In paragraph 2and again in paragraph 21, Tan refers to “all the Englishes I grew up with.” How does she classify these various “Englishes”? Name each that you see and tell me how it is different from either Standard English or the other Englishes she knows. Building on Tan's point of many Englishes, how do all the variations of English we use every day shape our culture today? Think about your own life. Don't you speak differently to different people? I do. One way at home, another with my parents, another with friends, another at work, another with strangers. How do you speak differently in different settings? What does that say about you in particular or us as human beings? Each deserves its own full paragraph.