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...and all will be paid for: I will enrolled early in my city college and major in ASL courses to earn a degree as an terp. My family is paying for the two year AA degree course. It's a done deal - my dream will come true finally!

Wish me luck!
 
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...and all will be paid for: I will enrolled early in my city college and major in ASL courses to earn a degree as an terp. My family is paying for the two year AA degree course. It's a done deal - my dream will come true finally!

Wish me luck!
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Congratulations! Good luck :)
 
I am so fired up. I have all the three Sign Naturally volumes and learning four new signs each day. I love this my friends.
 
I'm glad for you. My little advice: keep up signing or you'll forget it really quickly. One of my old neighbor spent 3 years in signing classes and she signed like normal. And then she got busy - marriage and kids - her sign language went plunge within 3 months.
 
I am breezing through the Signing Naturally 1 volume so I am not a beginner. I am beginning my personal lessons with the second volume which starts off with simple classifiers (easy). Vocabulary and reading fingerspelling (grr...so fast) are my main troubles but those things will come in time and with practice; most especially among those in the Deaf culture.

I have some months ahead to get the rust off and I am not wasting a minute.

The best learning will be signing with the deaf and hard-of-hearing on campus. That alone will be vital in my learning. I also need to focus on numbers and idioms. It's good that I have lesson books for both. Applying all I have gathered is key as stated above.

I have a ton of resources too. In fact I have almost all the text books nd videos out there which helps.

The noteworthy fact is that I KNOW I can do it. My confidence is sky high.

Again communicating with the deaf and hard-of-hearing on campus will be my best way to learn the beautiful language that is ASL. :) I can't wait to start my classes.

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GOod luck! That's awesome:) I found someone to teach me ASL for 10 an hour ..was gonna have 1-2 lessons a week but then she cancelled saying she was too busy
 
I have visited my future campus, the language department, and I saw dozens of deaf and hard-of-hearing folks signing (fast!) till the cows came home. I'm going to make so many friends and learn so much from each one. My enthusiasm will be apparent to them and everyone! Yes!!
 
Well you know that I have, as of today, learning the signs taught in the volume I've began to study this evening. It deals with classifiers and how they are used to describe a room(s). So I actually am learning about 5 to 10 signs per room and then viewing the signers in the companion DVD to get a very clear idea of the instruction. Volume two, at least the beginning of it, is pretty straight forward and quite clear. GOOD STUFF!
 
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