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I was around 10 and I was at a religious convention and saw the information being intepreted. So I asked my dad could I go sit in the deaf section and watch. So I did. At that time in the 80's interpretation was done in se and pse. After awhile the society realized the deaf should get asl interpretation and changed over. I never learned ASL til 1 1/2 years ago. Anyways to answer your 2nd question, you must take classes and learn asl. Asl is a visual and spatial language and is not in any way affliated with english. People get it confused with calling it broken english because hearing people tend to put an english word to a sign and think oh it's broken english but it is not. For example if I sign Tomorrow two-of-us go store buy new clothes. That looks like broken english but in reality it's asl language and deaf do not put english words to the signs hearies do. Deaf just see pictures and the signs are just that signs with it's own grammatical structure, time and space. So learning asl from a frozen book format isn't learning asl it's learning vocabulary. Want to learn asl? Hang out with the deaf and get some good videos like signing naturally 1,2,and3.
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