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 Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:32 pm
A good website is www.aslpro.com. It's a video dictionary, with tons of words, including phrases, slangs, and religious words. biggrin
I learned ASL (American Sign Language) from a group of Deaf kids about two years ago. I immediately fell in love with the language, but I think I annoyed the heck outta those kids. xd
I used to be pretty fluent, but I've lost touch with quite a lot of them due to other extracurricular activities. Plus, most of the first Deaf people I met have already graduated from high school. confused
P.S. "Talking" in ASL would sound funny. YOU GOOD? TYPE SIGN LANGUAGE I WANT. Oh gosh. The Caps just seem scary enough already. gonk
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:16 pm
MiasmaMoon A good website is www.aslpro.com. It's a video dictionary, with tons of words, including phrases, slangs, and religious words. biggrin
I learned ASL (American Sign Language) from a group of Deaf kids about two years ago. I immediately fell in love with the language, but I think I annoyed the heck outta those kids. xd
I used to be pretty fluent, but I've lost touch with quite a lot of them due to other extracurricular activities. Plus, most of the first Deaf people I met have already graduated from high school. confused
P.S. "Talking" in ASL would sound funny. YOU GOOD? TYPE SIGN LANGUAGE I WANT. Oh gosh. The Caps just seem scary enough already. gonk I started learning 2 years ago from a friend i worked with. Our job had an ASL dictionary in the break room to encourage people to talk to her. After she quit, i ended up taking it home all the time to learn >_< And thank you for the website! It's a good one!
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:03 pm
I had one semester of ASL and I've taken two community classes of "sign language".
I wanted to learn ASL so that I could, you know, communicate with more people. But I've learned that those who identify themselves as "deaf community" are snobs.
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:03 pm
I've just started ASL 2 - I vibrate with happiness. Seriously, it's becoming one of my favorite classes. Unfortunately, this is probably the last time I'll be able to study it for a while.
Rilian - I haven't had that problem when attempting interaction with the deaf community. Perhaps it depends on the sort of event you're at?
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:52 am
If I may ask, what sentence structure are most people comfortable with? I used to only use SVO with ASL, but then I realized that OSV worked even better, since I could actually manipulate my signs and use less movements.
In ASL, I don't think there's an actual set sentence structure. Just as long as the speaker understands you.
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:07 am
I'm a hearing signer, and although SVO seems like it would be easier, I find OSV to be more natural. My Sign teacher in high school tells me that the Deaf love to use OSV, but I never pay attention to sentence structure when I'm on the receiving end of sign conversation. And I think the Deaf can understand whichever mixed-up way the hearing sign. Hearing folk can understand what we commonly identify as Caveman Speak, so Sign with English word order probably isn't too difficult to understand.
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:19 pm
It appears that this thread is dead, but I thought I might post here, anyway. I'm way too excited to be starting ASL 4 (my last general ASL language class) and ASL 7 (literature and performance) this next semester. =D Oh, and ASL does have an actual sentence structure, but, as with any language, in the real world, the important thing is that the person you're conversing with understands you.
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