Sentence:  I began to write stories using all the <WSD>Englishes</WSD> I grew up with: the English I spoke to my mother, which for lack of a better term might be described as “simple”; the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”; my translation of her Chinese, which could certainly be described as “watered down”; and what I imagined to be her translation of her Chinese if she could speak in perfect English, her internal language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English.