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Please don't misunderstand me. I am not personally saying we are the best. Someone else stated that and someone else was wondering why. I am merely expressing how much time and effort is put in to helping the deaf and as a result many jw's have learned asl proficiently. I am not saying we are...

what is metalinguistic knowledge? The awareness of all the aspects of the language ie, grammar, syntax, non manual markers in relationt to grammar, mouth morphemes, etc? I looked it up on google, and it seem to mostly relate to how children acquire learning their language through nursery rhymes...

Wow this is old thread. But I couldn't resist. The reason why Jehovah Witnesses make excellent terps, is two things. We have excellent ASL dvd's signed by proficient uptodate terps and a few are coda's. So JW's learn from the dvd's. The organization that produces these dvd's are pioneers in...

Rabbit spend alot of time studying our dvd's the society provides. They are the best of the best. Also associate with the deaf in your group and work out in service with them. Careful of your association though. It does take time to become proficient. At least two years. Relax be patient and...

I wasn't meaning to put you on the defensive. I merely was wondering and I had a feeling you were talking about native signers/vs 2nd language signers. I am so very jealous of native signers because I wish I could've been as asl is so much more beautiful than english could ever be. I know even...

why don't you advocate interpreters to teach sign? Just wondering.

I think the teacher should have believed her. There is no reason not to take her word for it unless she has a habit of lying. However, I do understand why she may have wondered.(But she crossed the line of wondering to not believing her, that part was wrong.) English is a hard language to learn...

Actually, the earth is billions of years old but it was only recently inhabited by humans a little over 6,000 years ago. The bible says it was a desolate waste for a long time. Then it talks about 6 creative days but they were not 24 hour days as creationists believe. One creative "day" would...

yeah. It's deaf normal conversation. Just like in english we will cut off words. For example, I'm 'playin' a game. Im gonna vs I am going to (considered proper english.) If you want crisp clear signs (considered proper ASL) that is used in interpreting or at least it should be. But if you are...

what is DGS sign?

DEAF CANNNNNNNOOOTTTT accodomate to the HEARING needs BUT HEARING CAN accodomate to DEAF needs!!!! Wake up people..STOP trying to "fix" deaf people and accept ASL as a language...drive me nuts when hearing people think deaf who can lipread and speak well can be fully immersed in everything. What...

The more you associate with a variety of deaf people, the better your receptive skills will be. I found this out. I could sign quite well from a book but never really got to interact with the deaf all that much. Now I do, plus I am learning asl vs english now(that's what I meant learning sign...

The bible book of Matthew and John are indeed available to the deaf public and it is in ASL format so clear yet so very accurate to the original greek rendering. The people who put this together, are codas, so their mastery of ASL is native. The brother who does Matthew is very native indeed. It...

I am a hearie. And we hearies have figured out that a visual person learns sign language much faster than a linear person. I could learn so much faster new things if someone signed to me than talked to me. I don't process words wells due to my ADD, I don't have good control over my paying...

Jehovah’s Witnesses creates DVDs for hearing impaired ST. PETERSBURG – A congregation of 86 Jehovah’s Witnesses Bible teachers spend much of their free time exclusively searching for deaf and hard of hearing persons that use American Sign Language. It is their desire to make available DVDs...

Sorry if I offended you. I am looking at my response to your last comment, and today can't figure out why I said that to you. I guess I know some people that use the term ASL to incorporate all signing. And I guess that is a pet peeve of mine. It's great that you are teaching him sign language...

I think it is great you are learning sign language. Keep up the good work. If you make you signs clear and sign them correctly you will be able to communicate with most deaf. But understand, ASL is a 3 dimensional language that can't be learned from a book, and lottie reikoff's book is full of...

One can learn signed english from a book but not ASL. That must be learned by interactive with the deaf or from dvd's. ASL involves more than learning vocabulary, it's a three dimensional language.

We can't do that in that forum because we consider ourselves completely separate from all other religions. Also, I think it is possible for people to see this and decide from the title, oh I think I'll skip this thread. Or even if they read the first post and realize in more detail that they...

This man has gotten bitten by snakes and other animals, to him this was just another stick. I am sure he didn't realize it had pierced his heart and he probably didn't want the ray to inject further poison into his body. I think it was just a split second decision that cost him his life, but...