I also need help on the best way to remember what i will learn and would like to know what helped you learn and why you chose to learn
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I also need help on the best way to remember what i will learn and would like to know what helped you learn and why you chose to learn
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well my mom is deaf so i kinda grew up with it, but the fastest way i did it was reading or getting help from my mom and studing it for about year. so it takes a year to know most of it.
Immersion. Take a beginner’s class for the basics and then immerse yourself in ASL. Do you have any Deaf friends? Ask if you can go with him or her to Deaf clubs, bowling nights, parties, picnics, whatever. Have your friend introduce you to people and then converse with them. If you don’t have a Deaf friend, go to a school for the deaf and talk to someone there. They might be able to help you find a program that would be helpful to you. Here in NJ they have “the REAL sign language weekend” where you essentially spend an entire weekend not allowed to use your voice, only ASL… it can be grueling but people I know who have gone to it say it’s not only hard work, but a lot of fun and very helpful in building vocabulary and confidence.
Hope this helps.
I have a deaf brother who is a teenager now and I have found it very difficult to learn sign language.. Not only because there isn’t a big deaf community in my city or nearby cities but because there isn’t that many colleges that teaches sign language– I have taken 3 different classes in 2 different colleges and have rented many videos from the local library as well as gone on-line for certain words and yes i try to practice w/ my bro but he doesn’t have any patience to teach and usually is out hanging out w/ his friends and I’m left on my own—- I finally found a college an hour away from home where they offer classes and degree for sign language interpreters, this is the course i need to help me become fluent- Like the other responses you received here, practice will help you, find yourself a deaf friend or someone who is already fluent who will be able to help you to sign the right way! Its all about patience and Perseverance and renting sign language videos is definitely helpful if you cannot surround yourself with signers.