Like at a normal pace, as if you were in school.
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Sign Language Lessons, Information, Product Reviews and Tips to Get Started Learning ASL
Like at a normal pace, as if you were in school.
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I don’t know, but I recommending that after you take a few class, submerge yourself in a community that uses sign language, and you’ll learn twice as fast
First, you can see a list (although far from complete, unfortunately) of places in North America where you can study ASL (for credit) on my project’s website: http://carla.umn.edu/lctl/db (there are 394 listings today).
You can also look at the teachers’ organization’s website:
http://www.aslta.org/ and perhaps ask your question of an actual teacher.
Louis
It takes years and years of hard work and practice to become completely fluent in any language, including American Sign Language.
I do recommend going to a community college to take it. They will teach American Sign Language One first semester and two the second semester. After that, you should be able to hold a basic conversation in American Sign Language…now all that is left is learning new words and possibly different tenses of words. After that, I recommend taking ASL 1, 2, and 3 again and try and take all of them (or most of them) with a Deaf instructor. If they do not offer a 1 or 2 level instruction that is deaf, try it with a level 3 deaf instructor…but I recommend taking it with a deaf instructor AFTER you complete ASL 1 and 2 with a hearing instructor.
I would say 3 years to become and understand ASL…then more years to be completely fluent.
You can get a basic vocab and have a clue of what is being said in some months of learning it. I mean, if you meet a Deaf and he talks to you, in those first month you are going to be able to catch just a little bit of the information, like I said, having a little clue of what is about.
Although, it takes years and a lot of practice and practice to become fluent in the language. When I was starting to learn it (12 years ago), people told me it was going to be at least 2 years to get to a decent level, not fluent yet, but making myself clear and understand a conversation. My wife, who is also an interpreter, states that it doesn’t take less than 5 years.
My experience is that the more you get immersed in the culture and practice with Deaf, the faster it’s going to be to get it.
You might be frustrated sometimes, but don’t give up, it’s worthy to give it a try. I’ll get it.