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| cameroncrc Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6517 days ago 195 posts - 185 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Ukrainian | Message 1 of 27 15 April 2007 at 7:39pm | IP Logged |
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Sign language is very easy, and can also aid in the learning of other languages. I think sign language should be everybody's second languge for several reasons:
1. It is easy. 2. bad pronounciation, difficult grammar, tones, etc. are eliminated 3. It would not get overused, become a superpower, and replace other spoken languages. There are of course, other benefits. I was just wondering why more people don't consider learning it? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Evanstar Triglot Newbie United States Joined 6452 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, Catalan, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Swedish, Finnish, Latin, Swahili, Italian | Message 2 of 27 15 April 2007 at 8:06pm | IP Logged |
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I love sign language (I have moderate abilities in it), but I very rarely use it. It's wonderful but if you don't know people who are deaf there isn't going to be much motivation to learn it. (I only have use for it when I visit my mom's special education school).
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| furrykef Senior Member United States furrykef.com/ Joined 6472 days ago 681 posts - 862 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, Latin, Italian | Message 3 of 27 16 April 2007 at 8:47am | IP Logged |
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Learning sign language sounds interesting, but it's not likely to be something I'll study on my own. If I had some deaf friends, though, and they used a common sign language, then I'd almost certainly learn it. (But, of course, outside the internet, it's difficult to get deaf friends if you can't use their language. I admit there's a vicious circle there.)
My biggest problem is that sign languages generally aren't written. They're transcribable, but actual written sign language is rare. The lack of writing also makes them more difficult to learn from written materials, and would keep me from easily applying what I know. I'm currently interested primarily in learning the written forms of languages, so I'm afraid that sign language isn't appealing to me on its own. But, by all means, if you have deaf people to practice with, it would probably be a great idea. :) - Kef 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| cameroncrc Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6517 days ago 195 posts - 185 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Ukrainian | Message 4 of 27 16 April 2007 at 2:42pm | IP Logged |
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I was just thinking that it would be the best form of international language, so that you would only have to learn one language to communicate face-to-face with people all over the world.
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| IbanezFire Senior Member United States Joined 6694 days ago 119 posts - 124 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Russian | Message 5 of 27 16 April 2007 at 3:20pm | IP Logged |
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I read about sign language as a official second language report by some linguistic that stated it would be pretty much impossible to do, he gave reasons but I don't remember and I'll try to find the link.
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| mistael Groupie United States Joined 6823 days ago 48 posts - 51 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Russian | Message 6 of 27 16 April 2007 at 4:42pm | IP Logged |
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I recently found out that my daughter has severe hearing loss, so it is going to benefit me learning sign. I just started to learn it and its very easy to remember especially since im a visual/kinetic learner.
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| janalisa Triglot Senior Member France janafadness.com/blog Joined 6890 days ago 284 posts - 466 votes Speaks: English*, French, Japanese Studies: Russian, Norwegian | Message 7 of 27 16 April 2007 at 11:00pm | IP Logged |
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I've always been fascinated by sign language-- I've always thought it was really beautiful. In my church growing up there were some people who knew sign language, and it was really cool watching them talk to each other across the aisles. I would love to learn it, but the reason I don't is because I'm not in the United States and don't plan on living there long-term anyway. Different countries have their own sign languages, so maybe one of these days I'll try to learn Japanese sign language or something. =P
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| janalisa Triglot Senior Member France janafadness.com/blog Joined 6890 days ago 284 posts - 466 votes Speaks: English*, French, Japanese Studies: Russian, Norwegian | Message 8 of 27 16 April 2007 at 11:01pm | IP Logged |
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However, regarding cameron's second point, I've heard from a friend who knows sign language quite well that the grammar is actually really difficult. It's not like English grammar at all.
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