I have a few different questions, all on the subject of sign language. 🙂 1. Is Sign Language difficult to learn? 2. What is the difference between American Sign Language and normal Sign Language – Which is better to learn? 3. What type of career option are there for somebody who learns Sign Language?
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1. It can be difficult to learn. It’s all memorization, and you have to be very expressive.
2. American sign language is used in America and Canada. There is no “normal” sign language. There is French sign language, and British sign language, etc.
3. Career options are interpreters, teacher at deaf schools, teaching asl. That’s all I can think of.
For your first question, No sign language is not hard to learn. Its actually quite easy depending on your teacher and how quick you usually learn things. 2. Normal sign language is the same as American Sign Language. American sign language is just the correct way of saying it. 3. doesn’t matter.
This type of question always comes up and it just irritates me.
Look, if you feel you’re hungry and go to the fridge, open the door
and take your time taking inventory of what’s in it, and then take
you’re time trying to decide what you can make yourself to eat,
means you’re not hungry at all. You just need a snack.
Same here. If you need to learn the language, go for it and take the
plunge! If you’re intelligent enough to ask this question, you are
intelligent and smart enough to know this for yourself.
Learn the basics and then go from there.
I’m trying to figure out why you resorted to this forum to
resolve your question.
Did you ask your parents, your siblings, your friends, someone
that you trust this question??? They know you better.
I am frustrated with you and I don’t even know whom you are!!!
A lot has been answered by others..re how long to learn ASL. ASL is a language as is French, Italian etc so it can take a while. Taking classes is good but having more exposure to native signers (Deaf pple who use it) is ideal, such as at deaf organizations and deaf functions. Words of caution: some hearing pple who have taken courses will profess to be fluent in ASL and will teach a course but are not qualified. Best to have a Deaf teacher./some people will promote what is called ‘signed English’. This is not a langauge: it is merely a way of representing English on the hands: learn *ASL* not signed English.
To add to job opps with ASL..a lot of pple realize that using sign is beneficial for non-deaf kids and kids with physical disabilities, autism, or kids with learning disabilities where auditory processing is an issue. So maybe lots will open up for you once you learn ASL.
Most importantly…enjoy learning it, be patient, it is a beautiful, wonderful language. FYI-I am not deaf..I am an interpreter.