Hi!@!
My name is Steve. I'm hearing. I'm first year student in a terp Certificate Program. I hope to be a certified ASL interpreter someday. I think ASL is such a beatiful language and the deafies I've met have been extremely cool.
The only problm is I'm not learning anything at all in school.
(RANT: This past semester we had 60 hours of class time. And I'd say less than one hour in total was actually useful instruction. We spent about half an hour going over grammar and my actual time signing was probably a total of five minutes. TOTAL!! New vocabulary learned was between 20-50 signs. TOTAL!! I'm not kidding. It suxxxxxxxx0rOx. The teacher is completely apathetic and uninspiring. And he's the only one who teaches the "advanced" classes. Last year i took the Intro. ASL 1&2 classes and the two teachers were GREAT. Now, I'm stuck with a teacher who couldn't care less about actually teaching. Sorry for the RANT. end--)
Anyway. I know I have to learn by being in the community. So I hope something evolves from this.
Thanks for reading.
(i actually am learning somethings about Deaf history, community and culture in other classes, just the ASL part is useless.)
cheers.
My name is Steve. I'm hearing. I'm first year student in a terp Certificate Program. I hope to be a certified ASL interpreter someday. I think ASL is such a beatiful language and the deafies I've met have been extremely cool.
The only problm is I'm not learning anything at all in school.
(RANT: This past semester we had 60 hours of class time. And I'd say less than one hour in total was actually useful instruction. We spent about half an hour going over grammar and my actual time signing was probably a total of five minutes. TOTAL!! New vocabulary learned was between 20-50 signs. TOTAL!! I'm not kidding. It suxxxxxxxx0rOx. The teacher is completely apathetic and uninspiring. And he's the only one who teaches the "advanced" classes. Last year i took the Intro. ASL 1&2 classes and the two teachers were GREAT. Now, I'm stuck with a teacher who couldn't care less about actually teaching. Sorry for the RANT. end--)
Anyway. I know I have to learn by being in the community. So I hope something evolves from this.
Thanks for reading.
(i actually am learning somethings about Deaf history, community and culture in other classes, just the ASL part is useless.)
cheers.