Hi all,
I am fluent in ASL since I was deaf and grew up in deaf community. But now I'd say that I am hard of hearing (especially with hearing device and all the auto-captioning technologies these days) and can speak pretty well. I spent years studying Spanish and French and only recently learned how to speak them. I am quite interested to improve my pronunciation and try to be coherent in these languages. I probably would say I am very much A1 level for both languages in terms of speaking. About myself, I am a 31 years old guy about to graduate with grad degree in biology field. I like watching movies, rock climbing, and cooking. Pleased to meet anybody who is open to learning some ASL/some English!
Hii, I'm looking to learn sign language, i think it's something I'll need one day to help someone or meet someone that can sign language too would be really fun also would love to learn it. I like a lot of things mostly art and music would love to share hobbies and make new friends trying to learn sign language! So yeah message me on Reddit if you're interested!
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I saw a heavily upvoted post today about a Starbucks employee learning ASL and it made me sad how shocked everyone was that someone who isn’t deaf took the time to learn ASL.
Efforts to promote inclusion for the deaf are admirable, but should really just be common decency.
We learn second languages in school but ASL was never even offered as a second language credit. Maybe you’ll never need to use it, but the same could be said for the three years of French you took. I understand the likelihood is different but I stand by my statement.
Now I’m an adult trying to learn via YouTube and feeling very let down by the American education system (again, of course).
Hii, looking to learn sign language would love to be help learn my languages and yeahh looking to make a friend too along the way and learn about ne things ! Pm me <33
I was taught French in school and as I got older and started studying Speech and Language Therapy at university, I realised I have NEVER applied my French to practice, hell I’ve even forgotten most of it. But you know what? I’ve encountered more deaf people in my life than I have used my French.
Why isn’t Sign Language taught in schools? It would be so useful and so beneficial for the deaf/hearing community. I am currently learning sign language in my own time this summer and I just think its honestly ridiculous how I can tell you I like croissants in the language of a country I’m too poor to go to but I cannot communicate with a deaf person to save my life.
With our kids out of school we wanted to keep the language learning going. So we started teaching our young kids random words in as many languages as we could think of, and we would also do American Sign Language. Then we realized that despite out little one being just 3 years old at the time, she knew these words meant the same thing and Sign Language linked it all together.
We decided to make a book, with graphics, phonetics, animations and audio, to build on this discovery and we are now sharing it with the world.
Our goal is to foster an appreciate and an ear for multiple languages for our littles ones.
We know many of you are going through a hard time keeping your kids interested in learning and building an appreciation for the many different cultures and people in the world. We hope that this can maybe help in a small way.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/multi-kiddo/multi-kiddo
Thank you!!
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Basically what the title says. Has anyone dealt with progressive hearing loss in old age, and does it eventually get to the point where sign language would be better for communicating? He has really good hearing aids but he still has a lot of trouble hearing with them. I want him to feel like he can communicate as regularly and normally as possible, so I'm thinking maybe I should learn it preemptively. I wanted to get this community's opinions though, especially since it would be a considerable amount of work to learn, and to convince my family members to learn too.
Also, does anyone have advice on progressive hearing loss and how to better understand my dad and what sorts of things might be helpful for him day-to-day? I've been a mumbler my whole life so talking loud enough has taken some getting used to. Apologies if this has been asked a lot before or anything like that!
Hi! 19f here, my bf and his family are Dutch and although he doesn’t speak it I’d love to learn some basics as a surprise. Or Spanish as I have always loved Spanish and wanted to get to learn it but always lost traction.
I’m fluent at both English and French, I’ve been speaking both my whole life!
Hello, my name is Aviva, I'll be 18 in a few weeks, and I live in LA. My interests are books, art, travel, learning, and writing. I am proficient in ASL (probably B2) and native in English. I am learning these languages for the following reasons.
Italian: I wanted to learn Latin, but I can't practice that with speaking to other people, so here's the next best thing. I'd also like to visit small towns in Northern and coastal Italy and read Italo Calvino novels in their original language.
French: I would like to read lots of French texts in their original language. I also would like to see Paris. I know it is very cliche, but I would like to go there as a sort of pilgrimage for my self and homage to the Lost Generation.
Hebrew: I am doing a gap year in Israel and it'd be nice to get a head start on the Ulpan (language class) curriculum.
But, I'm interested in learning all languages (maybe not Chinese, I'm scared to mess up the tones), so feel free to chat with me :D
So I am someone who loves learning languages but also has hearing/processing issues and a hard time speaking at times. I also just have an interest in BSL itself as it's a very unique language. It would be nice to have someone to sign with as I learn, I don't mind helping with English or some simple French as I've been learning it for many years and have GSCE/Level 2 qualifications in it.
It's been fairly easy finding russian & french natives who want to learn or improve their English but I've not had a lot of luck finding BSL speakers to practise with. I know some basic signs, the alphabet and can say simple phrases. If there are any out there, let me know.
I said, "well, it's still all just written in sign language"
Hi! I’m 23F and I study Bilingual Speech Therapy and am an English teacher and accent coach. I’m looking for someone that shares a lot of languages in common with me so that we can help each other improve in our spare time. I don’t have a lot of spare time as a graduate student but I’d like to maintain my languages all with one person who will correct me and doesn’t mind being corrected for the sake of learning.
Bonus points if you’re a musician or are into linguistics!
Hello! I'm a university student in the US and a writer specializing in folklore and ghost stories. My mother is a Cambodian to American immigrant, but I can't speak Khmer and I'm steadily approaching the limits of the language learning apps I found. I'm also trying to write a book inspired by my mother's life and I'm finding it hard to properly represent Khmer culture and would love some insight. As for the other languages, I'm writing (another) book involving more western folklore and I'm learning Irish so I can better understand the context of translations I'm making when a character of mine time travels to 5th century Ireland. If you know an older version of Irish I would love to talk with you. I want to learn Spanish because it's the main language for a lot of people in my area closer to the US/Mexico border. Similarly, I think it's important to learn at least a passing level of ASL because it's not like those who are deaf or hard of hearing have much of a choice when communicating. Learning French and German more on the side, but I want to learn these because of how common French is and because one of my friends is German. Would love to make friends with anyone who can speak these. I would like to try out this method of language exchange from this video. Please DM me if you're interested. I have zoom and discord.
Spanish, Italian,...?
ETA: Not asking for judgement on the personal medical decision MY family made for OUR daughter. She has not had an interest in an implant but if she does later on, the option is available. We wanted her to have the choice, but also to grow up in deaf culture. I am not going to defend this anymore to Internet randoms, but please consider researching deaf opinions on the matter. As a hearing person, I can only give a very limited perspective.
Hi all. I (30F) am hearing, married to a deaf man (32M) - I’m going to call him Walter - and we have a deaf daughter (6F) - I’ll call her Cora. Walter comes from a primarily deaf family but my family is all hearing. We have chosen to raise Cora with sign language and not go for an implant - this is simply for context, I am NOT seeking judgement on this!
Before Walter and I got married, my parents began to take classes to learn ASL, as did my brother and his family. My sister, Emily, took them for a bit but ended up not continuing due to “lack of interest.” She and her husband have not taken any lessons, nor have their 3 children. Walter tried introducing their daughter to baby sign when she and Cora were both very young but my brother in law asked him to stop, as he didn’t want to “confuse her.” Cora and her cousins play as best they can with the language barrier but it’s extremely frustrating for her to feel like she isn’t being understood. When my brother’s children (who visit only a few times a year) visit, they interpret for her, or Walter and I have to constantly be looking over their shoulders to help resolve their miscommunications, which is too helicopter parent for me.
When we learned Cora was deaf, Emily pestered me about getting her an implant and continues to send me shame-y Facebook posts about the benefits of the implant and those videos of babies hearing for the first time. She constantly says it’s “better than having to learn two languages.” She’s been very pushy about it, to the point she and Walter got in a heated argument over it. Since then, she has not pestered him about it, only me.
My last straw was this past weekend. Emily was with all her kids, teaching them a game. I noticed that Cora wasn’t joining, so I brought her over and Emily outright told me that Cora couldn’t play, because it’s a game “for people who can speak.” I was fuming and pulled her aside. I told her that my daughter can communicate, just not how Emily wants, and said that I won’t have my daughter excluded for something so
... keep reading on reddit ➡We started teaching our young kids random words in as many languages as we could think of, and we would also do American Sign Language. Then we realized that despite our little one being just 3 years old at the time, she knew these words meant the same thing and Sign Language linked it all together.
We decided to make a book, with graphics, phonetics, animations and audio, to build on this discovery and we are now sharing it with the world.
Our goal is to foster an appreciation and an ear for multiple languages for our littles ones. If you would like to support this, please consider sharing and backing the project, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/multi-kiddo/multi-kiddo
Thank you!!
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