Do you know a language apart from English and Sign Language?

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I'm curious because someday, I would like to learn a language that is not English. I know there's few deaf out there who can read and write in a foreign language.

But I am curious as to how they've succeed in being fluent in a language and what kind of support did they get while learning the language?
I imagine the interpreters wouldn't be useful in this kind of situation esp in a educational setting as they do not know the language themselves.

Also which foreign language do you find the easiest to learn and which is the hardest to grasp?

So do tell your experiences in learning a foreign language!!

Looking forward to hearing about it. ;)
 
I know German and French pretty ok. I've been studying Vietnamese lately 'cos my significant other is from there. Its a complicated language but I am starting to get my grasp on it. I have been known to dab in several foreign languages and foreign sign languages.
 
I remember some German from school years ago..... about as much as I know Sign. Also know very little bit of Hungarian (Mom is 100% Hungarian so I was around it over the years).
 
I am trying to re-learn Finnish (I used to be able to communicate in Finnish when I lived in Finland for a short while) by reading this "teach-yourself" book... It is not really helpful because apparently you are supposed to listen a tape while reading it. Oy.
I have noticed that many language books out there doesn't explain the rules of grammar but rather to teach you several phrases to memorize when you are a tourist in that country.
So far there are four books that teaches Finnish in my house (that is IN english.. I have one Swedish book that teaches Finnish... my mother's!) and I still cannot grasp the concept of Finnish's grammar. Mymother said it is complicated-- A noun got its spelling changed if you use it in a certain context... :shock: NO! I would not mind if the verbs got its spelling changed (like spanish with "soy, estan, estamos" etc) but NOUNS TOO?! Oy.
 
I took 4 years worth of French in high school and 1 year of Spanish Sign Language in college. I have always been fascinated with langauges.

Currently Im trying to learn Russian Sign Language to help with our growing population of deaf Russians moving here. Oregon has a very large population of Russian community in general (100,000 and growing)

I still remember most of French but I dont have anyone to practice it with anymore :(
 
Oceanbreeze said:
I know alittle Spanish, but I'm far from fluent in it.
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Ay, y me tambien! No gusto "memorize" espanol. Muy difficulti! Eh, hablo bien espanol?

Oy. My spanish is rusty. I took two years of Spanish (and had a Mexican boyfriend whose parents only spoke Spanish so I practiced my spanish to a degree of fluency because of him and the parents)
 
When deaf people learn other languages, do they ever learn how to sign in that language as well? (I'm not sure how many different kinds of signing there are, I only know of 4. American, Spanish, and 2 others i don't recall)
 
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