dupontsalter
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Hi;
please forgive my ignorance, I am hearing with no one Deaf in my immediate circle.
I want to understand how a Deaf person (with ASL, or another signed language as a first language) learns English (or another written/oral language); for me, spelling is easy because it's somewhat phonetic and therefore I can make the link with what I hear. If ASL is your first language, English is only a series of groups of letter (almost random groups?)? how do you remember spelling (just visually)?
As well, (I know, this is silly, but I'll ask anyway), how do you choose your children's name? for me, it's sound often (how it sounds with last name, what feeling we get - some names 'sound' more serious than others, etc), with spelling (how it looks on paper).
Thank you.
and BTW, of course ASL is a language on its own - grammar, structure and words are different from other languages; just like the Québec sign language is different from ASL!
please forgive my ignorance, I am hearing with no one Deaf in my immediate circle.
I want to understand how a Deaf person (with ASL, or another signed language as a first language) learns English (or another written/oral language); for me, spelling is easy because it's somewhat phonetic and therefore I can make the link with what I hear. If ASL is your first language, English is only a series of groups of letter (almost random groups?)? how do you remember spelling (just visually)?
As well, (I know, this is silly, but I'll ask anyway), how do you choose your children's name? for me, it's sound often (how it sounds with last name, what feeling we get - some names 'sound' more serious than others, etc), with spelling (how it looks on paper).
Thank you.
and BTW, of course ASL is a language on its own - grammar, structure and words are different from other languages; just like the Québec sign language is different from ASL!