Learn ASL

I got an A in my ASL class
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Life got weird and busy and full of terrible distractions – but now that things are beginning to calm down, i really want to finish what i started. I’ve worked with children teaching them basic ASL and it was incredibly moving to help a child learn to communicate.

Went great! I got 110% on it. The grammar was all correct, and I used the right signs. It wasn’t choppy or too slow…just flowed nicely together. My teacher wrote on my critique paper that I had great expression and shifted my body at the right times. =D I will be taking intermediate ASL next semester…Hopefully, I won’t forget what I’ve learned by then!

I love ASL. To me, its like a language of feelings. I’ve always wanted to learn, and, when I met my boyfriend’s grandmother, who is profoundly deaf, I felt the need to learn it even more. I’m taking an ASL college course and am doing really well =]

I think this would extend the range of services I can offer as a clinical psychologist. I would also learn more about a population that is sometimes excluded from discourses about diversity and undoing oppression, thereby making ability more visible to me and making my own thinking more relevant for more people.

The community college where I’m an adjunct faculty member offers free classes to current adjuncts who have taught for two semesters… so, this time next year, I could enroll in ASL I and the next semester take ASL II (perhaps they would let me start in the fall and my second class could be the one I teach concurrently with taking my first ASL course).

I’ve always wanted to learn ASL, but I have never been fully committed to it. I took a class and learned some of the basics, but I would really love to be fluent in it.

I never thought about learning ASL but suddenly I found myself in love.

So sleeping with a deaf person, and hanging out with all of his deaf friends… I could stop writing them things in about a week, and picked up a few hundred words over the course of the month, including all party phrases, curses, and drug references. I could recognize and make jokes. I also got good at developing facial expressions, but I make a lot of weird faces in general and this got me into some miscommunication.

I met a girl who was taking a class, hahah I’m a million times better. You want to learn? Get a deaf bf/gf.

BUT IF YOU THINK THERE WILL BE NO BULLSHIT, ARGUING, AND DRAMA IN THE RELATIONSHIP, oh you’re dead wrong.

i’ve known some sign language for almost all my life, and i have some deaf family members. but when i got into high school i actually took sign language as my foreign language. i’m fluent in asl, and i know a lot of SEE as well. it helps a lot. it helps with any job, and is a great life experience. it can be so emotional and beautiful, and just casual too. work in retail right now, and we get deaf shoppers often. and when we do, it’s nice to know how to handle situations. signing is amazing and it’s actually a passion of mine.

I am fascinated by expressing thoughts and ideas with my hands and face, instead of just my mouth.

I think ASL should be taught in all schools. I’d really love to learn. When I used to work in fast food places, I always felt bad when a deaf person would come in and I couldn’t communicate very well with them.