I am deaf and I’m just curious if any of you met deaf people and know sign language! Say how and where you met deaf people and how you learn sign language. What you think of it?
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I am deaf and I’m just curious if any of you met deaf people and know sign language! Say how and where you met deaf people and how you learn sign language. What you think of it?
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I’ve met a couple deaf people, though not that many.
actually, back in 6th and 7th grade, I tried learning sign language but then, like most things I was doing around then, I got bored and stopped. I do still remember a few random words and things though.
Met a number of them and learned the alphabet—pointing also helps.
I have met deaf children at a special needs camp in pensylvania. one of the boys taught me a few signs and a couple of rude ones (ha ha) he was cute
Then back in australia i have worked with a deaf cmaera operator. he lip reads and gets along fine in a normal world.
I thinksign language would be useful among the deaf community.
i have seen alot of african american sign language
I have two deaf friends, one was born deaf and one lost her hearing afer having her child. I only know the alphabet in sign language but I am taking classes to elarn more. It’s interesting to learn something new, plus I get to talk to my friends and I meeting lots of new people.
I love sign language. I took it up as my high school credit for a language. My teacher was actually deaf and a couple of her friends were as well, so i had the chance of talking to them in person!! It was a really neat experience and I hope to use my skills in sign language in the future some time =)
I have met several deaf people. My daughter and I both took signing classes. I homeschool, so I set up the class for several kids and parents. I stress to people all the time that sign language should be just as important to learn as a foreign language as with Latin, Spanish, French, or anything else. I actually did a question on Yahoo!, asking others their opinion about the importance of learning sign language.
Took ASL classes from a deaf person that I later ended up having an LTR with. Met lots of deaf people during that relationship. I really liked using ASL. Only thing that made me mad was deaf people that looked down on me because I couldn’t sign as good as them. Many were willing to go slow and teach me but some were very angry and impatient.
I have a son who is deaf…I took ASL in college, and I absolutely love it. I have met many deaf people in my time since then. Some people don’t consider it a langage, but it is. I must say with you being deaf your english…sentence structure is excellent!
I have met 2 deaf people at my work but no I havent learned American sign language. They read lips really well and I understand them when they gesture. I think its rude of me not to but I dont interact with them all too much our jobs just dont cross paths.
my 6th grade teacher was deaf and him and his wife taught our class how to sign. I also had a friend thru high school who is deaf so I continued signing. I don’t know as much as I used to, but enough to talk to someone who is deaf.
I have met a lot of deaf people.
On the job and just in everyday
life. I took a American Sign Language
class in 1994…It was very hard to
learn. If you don’t use it all the time,
you forget it very easily. My best friend
is an interpreter for the USAF. She
speaks several languages also.
She says learning is best remembered
if it is a necessity. So True……….
As a paramedic/rescue tech I learned a few basic sign symbols such as ;what is your name,Are you in pain?Where is the pain?We also had an alpha-board so a deaf person could(if able to) point out words.
At least 20 including myself. Yes, I am in my second year of sign language.
I’ve met…prolly more deaf people than I can count. I got into sign because I found out they were offering classes, but what really made me passionate was having a deaf teacher who grew up oral and later learned sign. When I watched her communicate, using HER language, so clearly and beautifully, I knew I wanted to use ASL the rest of my life.