sjheiss Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5683 days ago 100 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English*, Basque
| Message 1 of 5 10 October 2012 at 11:29pm | IP Logged |
Is there anyone here currently learning ASL? I'm looking for someone to practice with over video chat. This can also be a thread to get help and help others with ASL. :)
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 2 of 5 11 October 2012 at 5:27am | IP Logged |
I bet finding a language partner would be pretty simple. Don't practice with non-native,
find a real ASL speaker! I'm sure there are forums full of deaf people just waiting to
help someone learn ASL. Most are not shy to use video either. I haven't studied ASL in
ages, but everyone I met was so eager to help, and patient too!
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sjheiss Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5683 days ago 100 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English*, Basque
| Message 3 of 5 11 October 2012 at 6:37pm | IP Logged |
Well, I wanted to ask on a language forum, because here there is a better chance of finding someone that knows a lot about linguistics, and would be competent in knowing what they are learning or teaching me.
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 4 of 5 11 October 2012 at 6:59pm | IP Logged |
sjheiss wrote:
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I usually see a much better rate of progress in ASL students than in students of written languages. I wouldn't worry too much about linguistics and I would just do, which is what you need to do with ASL.
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jamescoleman Newbie United States Joined 4794 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Studies: English*, Russian
| Message 5 of 5 17 October 2012 at 2:06am | IP Logged |
I studied ASL and I miss it.
Check out this website for fingerspelling.
http://asl.ms/
I forgot the website for numbers.
Have you called around to your local community colleges or universities
to see if they offer ASL? Maybe you can tell you about a Deaf social.
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