Assume I know absolutely nothing about sign language at all. When a person wants to seriously learn the language (I’m assuming I would want to know ASL, rather than an other kind), how do they learn it?
With other languages, I would recommend that if you’re serious, to study at a university, but I have no idea how one learns sign language correctly.
I know there’s a lot of websites, which I would love if I knew one was reliable… Is there a website that’s known to be very standardized and reliable with it?
I’m a college student, starting my junior year at a small private university in southern indiana, USA.
I have no direct need to learn sign language. I have also recently learned there is ASL and signed english… Which ever would be more practical for me would be best… I know most (or all?) deaf people use ASL. I just want to know the language for the practical benefits of being able to communicate visually in daily life. Being able to communicate with the deaf would be a big added benefit though.
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any school of deaf and dumb would be good (in my opinion)
I know myself well enough from prior experience to consider full immersion in a social situation where the sign language can be the only way to communicate. That also includes classroom situations to elucidate more clearly my ability to converse fluently and eventually maybe even assist at teaching hand language in all topics so as to understand the variations in relative changes in the dimensional aspect where a full social science, mathematics, history and science all done through hand language are necessary for the conversational ability.
OK I’ve had this site for awhile.
Then i show my kids the basic ones
About the other languages we moved to japan for 4 years and most of the signs are the same.
Contact a school for deaf people in your area, they will have advice for people who are in contact with their students but do not need to learn ASL as their first language.
They may also know about groups that meet and of people that teach sign language for pocket money, like some of their older students.
And for a site, I have found this one rather easy to use, and it gives a lot of words:
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/SITES/ASLWEB/browser.htm
As I do not use sign language I can not say how good it actually is.
And remember, it is just about translating words, not teaching language.
One can´t learn sign language without taking a course. Contact your teacher or some organization for deaf people in your country, I´m sure they know. Good luck! I think it´s admirable to want to learn sign language.One of my relatives is deaf and I always wanted to learn sign languages, but thought I don´t have enough time, now I regret it deeply.
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/ aslweb/browser.htm