The Relative Advantages of Learning My Language Opinion

The author presents herself as a young Chinese girl  and her connection with her Grandfather.

The description of Amy Choi aged 12  being not particularly kind to her Grandfather just represents the difficulty that people who speak English have with Chinese people. Living in Australia the author spoke English all day at school, listened to English all night on TV and she didn't see the point of speaking Chinese in Australia.

After experiencing the death of her Grandfather, Amy found herself regretting that she ignored her Grandfather after he had died. She regrets not being able to communicate with her Grandfather and experiencing the way that he used to live in China. Continuing with this guilt the author is able to relate to the readers, everyone has difficulties communicating with there grandparents when they come from a different cultures and lifestyles but in the end we all have to learn and try to ensure that the next time an elderly relative wants to communicate we are not willing, but are able

So after the death of her grandfather Amy Choi begins to realize that her grandfather had the most commonest sense of kindness and now she wants to become involved with her families cultures and lifestyles in order to be able to communicate.

The importance of this story is that even though we speak in different tongues our hearts beat as one, meaning that even though Amy's grandfather speaks Chinese and she does not they should still be able to communicate with one another as a family not a culture.