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Originally Posted by shel90
Speaking of taking other foreign language classes while at the Deaf school...my brother took basic Spanish at the nearby public high school (magnet program) and he said that he could understand Spanish better than English cuz the syntax of ASL resembles to Spanish.
I am not fluent in even the basics of Spanish but a lot of deaf people have told me that about ASL and Spanish. I thought it was interesting...
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English is one of the most unique languages and so different from pretty every other language out there. It's incredibly difficult to learn, it's a wonder we, deaf people even managed to understand it in the first place! Of course, I don't find it difficult to read and write English because I grew up with it. But I do understand why so many people find it difficult.
French, Spanish, Italian and such languages share similar syntaxes and rules.