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Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Feb 16th, '20, 01:36
by Kitalpha Hart
Oh yeah if you find charts for the alphabet between ASL and BSL, ASL uses one hand, majority of BSL uses both. And that's just the alphabet
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Feb 16th, '20, 13:12
by kitah810
Sign Language is slightly difficult to learn. I had the alphabet down, but I spent some time a couple years ago in a woman's homeless/abuse shelter and one of the women there was deaf. Everyone seemed to shun her mostly, because they had trouble communicating with her. I started talking to her and she learned slowly to read my lips and also she taught me some words, not just the alphabet.
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Feb 16th, '20, 13:34
by Kitalpha Hart
Back in second grade I learned how to spell-sing we wish you a merry christmas, cuz my class was gonna go to the nursing home and sing and stuff for them
I don't remember how they acted to a kid signing a song, all i really remember is that we decided that instead of singing happy new year, just happy year so the signs weren't a blob of rush
Memories are weird
Mom teaches ASL, so if I really wanted to I could go to her classes and pick it back up
Mom and I are both left-handed, which makes signing a bit different, which has caused some trouble in the past, but mom has ways to help people get past that
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Feb 17th, '20, 07:33
by Sunlight
I think I'd actually prefer to learn sign language from a left-handed person. I tend to mirror people so most of my signs have ended up left-handed.
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Feb 17th, '20, 07:41
by Kitalpha Hart
If you know them left handed, switching might become awkward
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Feb 17th, '20, 11:25
by Sunlight
Yeah, but I don't know enough to be fluent so maybe it would be good to start before it's too late and I'm too ingrained in using my left for signs.
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Feb 17th, '20, 16:17
by Rubie
@mem: I'm not sure which two, but I know one is the one that majority of the country speaks. Is that one Hindi? And the other is from the region her parents are from, but I can't remember if it's from the north or south because I can remember her talking about both regions but I can't remember what about. lol
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Feb 17th, '20, 16:21
by jacobgrey
Yeah, it seems kind of dumb that ASL and BSL are different XD I've been wanting to learn BSL as well. It's tough to find time. I don't have any particular usage to motivate me either, whereas for Korean I'm more motivated because my work does bring me into contact with Korean people from time to time.
I think I had a bit of a breakthrough this week on Korean actually. I've been hammering the lessons because of disappointment with the Oscars haha. I have started to be able to put together longer sentences now and retain more actual words.
@mem happy to provide motivation hahaha
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Feb 17th, '20, 16:31
by Kitalpha Hart
They're as different as US English and British English
Different sources for different words and all that
Like a lot of ASL signs come from Martha's Vineyard, where a unique gene had a whole quarter of the island deaf, and so everyone knew sign language
If you took a Martha's Vineyard deaf person and they had a kid with a deaf person not from the island, the kid would be hearing. Every time
Re: Candy Caravan Chat
Posted: Feb 17th, '20, 16:36
by memoriam
Rubie wrote:@mem: I'm not sure which two, but I know one is the one that majority of the country speaks. Is that one Hindi? And the other is from the region her parents are from, but I can't remember if it's from the north or south because I can remember her talking about both regions but I can't remember what about. lol
Yeah, that'd probably be Hindi. But the first thing that comes to mind when you mentioned South is Tamil
There's over 20 languages in use there so I don't blame you for not remembering xD