Hello!
For my learning project, I decided to try and learn some ASL (American Sign Language). I’ve never had a need for it, but I figure it’s a useful skill to have, and I think it’ll be (at least mostly) fun.
I have absolutely no prior knowledge of ASL, so it’ll be an entirely new thing for me to track my personal level of interest as this project continues and to see how much I will be able to retain starting from scratch.
I have a very rough idea of how I’d like to go about this, but this is subject to change:
I think I’ll start by trying out a couple of apps during the first two weeks. I already found two that I want to compare: Lingvano and InterSign ASL.
I think after that I’ll see if I can find a few YouTube videos and websites to try out.
After that, I’m not totally sure. I’ll definitely be on the lookout for some inspiration, but I’m sure it’ll come to me eventually.
I’m not interested in ASL for any particular reason, just because I think it would broaden my own potential as a person. I’ve never had to communicate with someone who was deaf, but I know a family who has a deaf son, and his two younger brothers were around my age. Sometimes, they would start signing at each other so that no one else knew what they were saying. I found that incredibly annoying, but thinking about it now, I think it’s very sad that just because someone is deaf, I can’t easily communicate with them.
Hopefully, that will soon change!
See you next time,
Bernice
Hello Bernice! The key to learning ASL is to learn all your vocabulary into signs. You can divide it into sections, abc, animals, feelings, colors, etc. It would be easier for you to learn in an organized way. I started last year but could I leave it after the first month? I was overwhelmed about having to learn all the vocabulary into signs and sometimes I forgot or confused them. It’s sad to not be able to integrate deaf people.
Thank you for your suggestion! It would be really helpful if I could find a flashcard set somewhere.
As someone who is also doing ASL for their learning project, thank you for adding this.