In layman's terms.. ASL vs. SEE

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Okay, so I have read up on this. I know ASL is the official language. My question is more about context, grammar, sentence structure etc. I will be attending classes to learn soon but in the meantime I just want to know if the difference between ASL and SEE is the usage of verbs. If you can provide a sample with the usage that would be great.

Another thing with words like "learning" or anything that might require an "ing" at the end would you double the sign?

I know sentence structure would provide different signing like I noticed "What color?" was signed by using color + furrowed eyebrows as opposed to color + what sign. Can I do it the second way or is that not ASL?
 
Oh? I thought this quote posted on that thread was pretty clear: ESE, SEE I, and SEE II are examples of "consciously designed" signing systems (Stokoe, 1992). Designers of these systems have either invented signs or borrowed signs from existing sign languages for the purpose of manually encoding spoken English. The purpose for designing such systems is to make spoken English visually accessible to deaf students. American Sign Language, on the other hand, is neither English nor a manual representation of English. ASL is a language with vocabulary and grammatical structures distinct from all other languages. As a language, ASL has developed naturally over time and is the "natural language used by members of the North American Deaf community" (Valli & Lucas, 1992).

SEE is manually signed English. ASL is NOT a signing version of English, it's its own language entirely. That was the first thing my ASL teacher taught me - she said "before I teach you ASL, you need to know that it's not English. It's a totally different language."
 
I sign in mixed PSE & ASL but as I get more proficient, it's slowly going toward to ASL.
 
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