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| D+C Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4569 days ago 31 posts - 59 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Sign Language | Message 1 of 4 07 June 2012 at 10:06am | IP Logged |
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I understand from seeing people's profiles that many posters here are conversant in sign
language. Just curious as to people's experiences with the different sign languages, whether you can teach yourself just like other languages or whether it is an entirely different methodology. It must be hard to graduate onto "native materials" in the same way without having constant opportunities to sign with deaf people. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Przemek Hexaglot Senior Member Poland multigato.blogspot.c Joined 6466 days ago 107 posts - 174 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, SpanishC2, Italian, Portuguese, French Studies: Turkish, Hindi, Arabic (Written) | Message 2 of 4 11 June 2012 at 10:21am | IP Logged |
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I learned Polish sign language many years ago. I had a friend with whom I met nearly
every day and he introduced me into his environment. I was really advanced and it was easy for me to understand others and be understood by them. Then I moved out, and for dozen of years I didn't use sign language. Now I returned to it and I recall fast what I had known before. But it's true - you need to sign constantly to be able to communicate freely. You can try to watch some movied or informative programs on TV - if there is tranlsation service provided, but it's not the same as meeting and conversing with deaf people. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4879 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 3 of 4 14 June 2012 at 8:44am | IP Logged |
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I did the first course in British sign language through an adult education centre and thankfully managed to get it either completely free or partially free as we were on a specific benefit. It definitely helped to have people to practice with. The only problem I had at the time was that we would get word/sentence lists of what we had learnt that day but once home if I'd forgotten the signs I had no "answer sheet" so I had to wait until the next lesson or try and find it online. I think if you watched enough signed tv you would eventually pick stuff up but again, maybe not so easy to confirm the signs as there isn't an individual sign for each individual word which is said.
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| Przemek Hexaglot Senior Member Poland multigato.blogspot.c Joined 6466 days ago 107 posts - 174 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, SpanishC2, Italian, Portuguese, French Studies: Turkish, Hindi, Arabic (Written) | Message 4 of 4 14 June 2012 at 9:44am | IP Logged |
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I don't know how it is in other countries, but in Poland a person who learns sign
language has a problem with the "diglosia". When you attend a course you learn so called "system" with a grammar similar to the regular language, with all the prepositions, pronouns and conjuctions (although without conjugations and declensions). But when you talk (sign) with deaf persons they do not use the words "on", "at", "in" etc. They construct sentences in a different way than the "system" teaches. So you need to learn the "system" but in everyday use you have to switch to the so called "natural" sign langugae. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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