The Relative Advantages of Learning my Language by Amy Choi

1) An anecdote is basically a story inside another story and the author uses this to give the reader a better understanding about the story
2) The author thinks that the Chinese language should not be spoken in Australia because everyone speaks English. On TV shows and at her school everybody speaks English and as a result she began to lose memory of the Chinese language
3) The grandfather mistakes the house for being his which symbolises the similarity and uniformity of living standards within Australian culture. It also shows that all migrants are treated the same way seen through the Chinese background of the main family and the Pakistani background of the other family. It is ironic that they are both of Asian descendant and that they have similar looking houses. 
4) The death of her grandfather motivates her to get back into the Chinese culture
5) She is motivated to learn Chinese so that next time she meets one of her relatives she would understand what they were trying to explain to her, and she regrets not doing so for her grandfather.
The basic skill is communication