deaf Asians and asian languages

where's amyloveschina? :dunno:
 
where's amyloveschina? :dunno:

crowded-china-beach.jpg

Somewhere in China's beach.
 
She will follow crowd, as she assume there is TSUNAMI. Now you dodo??

damn... I was hoping she's napping and sun-tanning. maybe make a surprise gunshot noise? :lol:
 
This is just only in Japan.
I have met a deaf girl that came from China. Seems like she knows the written Chinese along with CSL. She married a deaf American and so she learned ASL and English. Seems to be doing great with that. But then again, I met one of hearing volunteer who went to deaf school in China. She said the education there were somewhat backward. I think school was in rural area or something. So the expectation for the students weren't high or something. Like most of them won't go to college, but most likely will work on farm or in a factory.

With China, I always seem to hear different stories, how some are doing great and other aren't. China is pretty big country by itself, so I guess it makes sense. Sort of like US, you will find good schools and ones that aren't.
 
No problem. I just feel lucky to be able to meet deaf Japaneses on my trip. :)

sheila022-Props for you if you are gonna attempt to learn some Chinese. So I am assuming you were raised in US (or somewhere that speaks English) while your family stayed in China?

Japanese, I think is going to be third language I want to learn. Just got to find appropriate time and class for it. So the next time I go back to Japan, I can at least understand basic stuff that's written on wall/poster everywhere, lol. (and menus too)

Yeah, English is my native language and I was born and raised in US....but family speaks Chinese (their native language), so I guess I want to learn to speak Chinese so I can have an idea what people are talking about around me or at least, be able to communicate with my grandmother.
 
Cool. It's probably not my business to ask unless you don't mind, is there a reason why your family didn't teach you Chinese?
 
I have a friend who's very into anime and she got interested in the Japanese culture as a result. She taught herself Japanese and made friends with a deaf Japanese girl from a deaf family in Japan. I was impressed with her and her mother's knowledge in English and I learned a few signs in Japanese as well.

So I'm disturbed by Silentwolfdog's post and I hope sign language will be allowed in the Japanese school system.
 
Cool. It's probably not my business to ask unless you don't mind, is there a reason why your family didn't teach you Chinese?

Well, my father thought it's best that I learn English at first when I just got my CI at 3 years old, because he was afraid that if I learn two languages at the same time, I could get two of them confused and mix up and affecting my pronunciation of whatever words. But at this point in my life, even I am much older, I still believe it's time for me to learn Chinese or keep mastering a language as to be fluent in that language (spoken, reading, writing) as possible (the other choice besides Chinese was Spanish)
 
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