American Sign Language The first time I met a deaf person was about two years ago. She was a regular customer at this bar that I use to work at in the city. It seemed like she found comfort in who and what was familiar to and with her. She would always carry around a notebook and pen just in case someone didn’t quite understand her she would just write it down. She would …showed first 75 words of 289 total…

…showed last 75 words of 289 total…translators more than the teacher. The language just seemed more interesting to me than Spanish, Italian, or any other language I seemed to struggle with. I know a second language is usefully but ASL seems like more than a second language. Maybe that is because I would look at the deaf world as disabled, not realizing that its is a culture. Now it seems like learning ASL would be an advantage to broaden my prospective.