I’ve been learning all my life from my deaf family members, but I’m not fluent yet. It’s because they have hearing aids and usually talk instead of signing, so I became used to not signing. Now I’m starting to sign more with them, and I’m picking it up very easily.
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I went in for Orientation at school this past weekend, and found the pre-reqs for taking Sign I. I’m taking one of the pre-reqs this semester (Child Development / Child Development Lab), which is also required for my major, and next semester I’ll take Sign. So, we’re on the way to getting this accomplished. It’s a first step.
Toria is in the moment, learning, living, experiencing.
Instead of New Years’ Resolutions, I make Birthday Resolutions.
I have to finish this before my nineteenth birthday on 18 February 2009.
I’m going to try to take a class either this summer or in my first semester at school this fall.
i know some but i want to know it so much better and i dont know where to start.
I have two deaf siblings, many deaf friends and am familiar with the deaf community, so it is frustrating when I can’t completely understand what people are saying, although I know quite a bit of sign language already. Hopefully, I will become fluent and maybe even become a part-time translator. :)
i’ve already taken a class for two years.. but i wanted to put this stuff to use! i wish i could continue my education in this department, i would love to really help people by knowing more of the language and the culture.
Fluent? No. But I am learning a lot from my daughter as she learns to sign (she’s one and not yet talking, so we are trying to teach her to sign some things)
I have taken two courses in Sign and I am getting better. I think that people have a lot of trouble figuring out how to be more facially expressive. I am lucky in this aspect as I am very expressive anyway. Once you start to learn the language though, you recognize that context is so important and that you will probably never know it all.






