Starlet
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I am a hearing female from the Midwest USA, and I live in an area that's not all that diverse... but I love to learn about other cultures. I didn't really start to get interested in deaf culture before watching the show switched at birth, which gave me a question: Is some of the stuff she says really true?
Well, I got my answer in the form of a friend. I made a new friend in the middle of the year who was hard of hearing. You have to talk loudly just for her to hear it as a whisper, is how she described the severity of her impairment. After spending one night in her family, who are 90% deaf or hard of hearing.... I realized that I needed help with my ASL just for the sake of living through visiting her family. She laughed and said she understood the feeling of missing out on something, not knowing all the details. So my friend tried to teach me sign language. Herself, being so used to it and rather hyper... wasn't as good a teacher as I hoped... after about two months, I barely understood the alphabet and numbers... and quickly forgot them Oops.
I made the decision to look for alternative ways to learn online as I had done with Spanish! So here I go! What I'm looking for, is to make friends who are fluent in ASL, but wouldn't mind teaching a person completely ignorant of how it works.... I was hoping maybe getting references to free ASL learning sites, and possibly getting help with learning through Skype.
It may seem crazy to learn a new language like this, but my interest has been piqued and my hopes are high to find acceptance into a whole new world that has previously been unknown to me.
Well, I got my answer in the form of a friend. I made a new friend in the middle of the year who was hard of hearing. You have to talk loudly just for her to hear it as a whisper, is how she described the severity of her impairment. After spending one night in her family, who are 90% deaf or hard of hearing.... I realized that I needed help with my ASL just for the sake of living through visiting her family. She laughed and said she understood the feeling of missing out on something, not knowing all the details. So my friend tried to teach me sign language. Herself, being so used to it and rather hyper... wasn't as good a teacher as I hoped... after about two months, I barely understood the alphabet and numbers... and quickly forgot them Oops.
I made the decision to look for alternative ways to learn online as I had done with Spanish! So here I go! What I'm looking for, is to make friends who are fluent in ASL, but wouldn't mind teaching a person completely ignorant of how it works.... I was hoping maybe getting references to free ASL learning sites, and possibly getting help with learning through Skype.
It may seem crazy to learn a new language like this, but my interest has been piqued and my hopes are high to find acceptance into a whole new world that has previously been unknown to me.