American Sign Language

fish_wwjd_frog

fish_wwjd_frog

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I'm learning ASL, and I was curious to know who else on here knows Sign...

If so:
How did you learn (school, family, etc)?
Why did you learn?
How long have you known sign?
Do you have a sign name?

Or any other interesting things you want to say!

Let's see... I'm learning sign at our community college right now. One, because I'm just absolutly in love with it, Two, because I want to teach my future children "baby sign", and Three, because I hope to be an interpretter (interpretting for plays would be absolutly amazing!!!). I only started learning ASL this past fall, but I'm forever on ASLPro looking up signs to songs that I love... Sadly, I don't have a sign name yet, but I'm seriously looking forward to getting one!

-Lizzie- Fish
 
I know a VERY small amount, i have always wanted to learn it.
I can sign the alphabet, i can cuss in asl :rolleyes:, which i don't but i do know how :o. and like one or two phrases or titles, like boy girl,grandma, that sort of thing. just the bare basics, and i've forgotten a LOT of it. , i had a book, but i loaned it to a friend, and never got it back
 
I know how to speak ASL a little.

I learned through a teacher at the homeschool classes I went to throughout highschool. I took it for about five years but I am very out of practice (somehow college isn't condusive for keeping up with that). It was really the only class that I actually enjoyed in my last year taking the Trinity Home Education Classes. Despite taking it for five years, my teacher never got around to giving any of us a sign name. My sisters (and myself before college) belong to a Sign Choir.
 
Celebrion Seregon said:
I know a VERY small amount, i have always wanted to learn it.
I can sign the alphabet, i can cuss in asl :rolleyes:, which i don't but i do know how :o. and like one or two phrases or titles, like boy girl,grandma, that sort of thing. just the bare basics, and i've forgotten a LOT of it. , i had a book, but i loaned it to a friend, and never got it back
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Haha, I actually know an ASL cuss word, too, but only because my professor warned us about it because it's very similar to another common phrase...

~Lava~ said:
I know how to speak ASL a little.

I learned through a teacher at the homeschool classes I went to throughout highschool. I took it for about five years but I am very out of practice (somehow college isn't condusive for keeping up with that). It was really the only class that I actually enjoyed in my last year taking the Trinity Home Education Classes. Despite taking it for five years, my teacher never got around to giving any of us a sign name. My sisters (and myself before college) belong to a Sign Choir.
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A Sign Choir??? That's awesome!!! To me, signing a song is one of the most beautiful ways to use sign... Haha, I love to sign the words I know to hymns in church, but I'm sometimes yelled at by my friends....:D
 
I learned it quiet fluntly I learned some of it myself some books. From Sesame street some from a few ladies at Church and I took a class my senior year I love to sign songs i doubt if i could remember cause i have not done it in so long. I remmeber most of it I fancided myself being a interprter of sign for awhile but i never pursued.
 
fish_wwjd_frog said:
Haha, I actually know an ASL cuss word, too, but only because my professor warned us about it because it's very similar to another common phrase...
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er..yeah, a fluent asl person taught me. lol, someone flipped someone off and he got irritated, "if your gonna sign that, at least do it correctly!" and we all got a sign lesson... and that one word led to other words..and well..yeah.
 
fish_wwjd_frog said:
Haha, I actually know an ASL cuss word, too, but only because my professor warned us about it because it's very similar to another common phrase...
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Are you talking about the one that is close to the word "God"?

fish_wwjd_frog said:
A Sign Choir??? That's awesome!!! To me, signing a song is one of the most beautiful ways to use sign... Haha, I love to sign the words I know to hymns in church, but I'm sometimes yelled at by my friends....:D
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Yes, they do Christian songs. I think the best one that they do is "Arise My Love".
 
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~Lava~ said:
Are you talking about the one that is close to the word "God"?
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Nay, the one that's similar to "meet"... That's the only one I know, and I didn't even want to know that, so please don't tell me anything else..:D

Yes, they do Christian songs. I think the best one that they do is "Arise My Love".
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My professor signed the MercyMe's "I Can Only Imagine" for us, and I was seriously crying at the end. (Of course, before she started signing, she told us that that was the favorite song of a close friend who had died a year ago to the day, so that in itself made me tear up...) Before that, the possibility of being an interpretter had crossed my mind, but when I saw her sign that song, it seriously hit me that I want to know sign inside and out...
 
I can sign several songs from either doing it for say Bible school or being bored and learning the signs. the problem being my book is a bit outdated
 
fish_wwjd_frog said:
I'm learning ASL, and I was curious to know who else on here knows Sign...

If so:
How did you learn (school, family, etc)?
Why did you learn?
How long have you known sign?
Do you have a sign name?
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I learned ASL while I was learning to talk so I've know it for a long time and still use it today. My mum was a speech pathologist( look it up) before she home schooled my two sisters and I. My mum taught us because while we were learning to talk she did not want us to point or grunt at things but to ask with words or with ASL. As I got older I would use ASL during Kindergarten through second grade with any one who knew it. After I became home schooled our co-op asked my mum to teach an ASL class there so I and my two sisters along with my friends learned it(for us it was over again:p) Well haha.....when you get board and the lectures get long in classes(cause I still do co-ops) my friend Chelsie (who knows ASL like I do) and I sign back and forth under the tables alot. :p lol. My sign name is an L on my right arm. I have actually talked to deaf people and hard of hearing people before and it is fun because holding a fast conversation in front of those who do not know ASL is fun and funny. It is like being a forgein interperator for deaf people. At my church the kids all sign so we sign to songs some times also. ASL is very useful and can count for a language course.
 
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fish_wwjd_frog said:
I'm learning ASL, and I was curious to know who else on here knows Sign...

If so:
How did you learn (school, family, etc)?
Why did you learn?
How long have you known sign?
Do you have a sign name?

Or any other interesting things you want to say!

Let's see... I'm learning sign at our community college right now. One, because I'm just absolutly in love with it, Two, because I want to teach my future children "baby sign", and Three, because I hope to be an interpretter (interpretting for plays would be absolutly amazing!!!). I only started learning ASL this past fall, but I'm forever on ASLPro looking up signs to songs that I love... Sadly, I don't have a sign name yet, but I'm seriously looking forward to getting one!

-Lizzie- Fish
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I know REALLY little, my sister had to learn sign language for her work, but I had a partial deft friend in sixth grade. She would teach us a few things like how to say thank you, and wave, and whale, and then she taught us the alphabet. I actually do have a sign name, although I REALLY want to change it, I really don't like it at all.
 
I know some ASL.
-I taught myself from a book, then I took a semester from the Speech and Hearing Association here in the city were I live.
-I've been playing around with sign for about four years now.
-Yep, I have a sign name. I'm not entirely sure that I like it though.

-As to why I learned, different reasons. I thought it was a beautiful language and would be helpful in witnessing and ministry. I really enjoyed the TV show Sue Thomas F.B.Eye and that was what really got me interested. It was a wonderful feeling when I knew enough to know what they were signing!! :D :cool:

Someday, I'd like to take the second level class, but they've changed their curriculum so I'd have to take the first class again too. :p
 
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