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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tetracyclone" data-source="post: 2508423" data-attributes="member: 82637"><p>Like all languages people learn at different paces and some people have greater gift for language, but ASL, I suspect, keys in a different range of brain talent than spoken language, since it is visual rather than oral.  Children will always learn quickly.  Key communications will be learned quickly because they get repeated often.  More complex ideas will take longer but adult family members can focus on finger spelling so they can simply show you the consonants you likely struggle with for the beginnings of words.  Teach them to show you s or sh when they say suspect or shenanigan. Some will catch on, some you will no longer communicate with.  This is just an "is" of life.</p></blockquote><p></p>