Timothy7
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Hi everyone! I'm Timothy. Just Monday I began taking a Level 1 ASL class. I had dabbled in ASL before over the past four or five years - reading noted books, learning (the forgetting and now re-learning) the manual alphabet. Finally, I realized I needed to quit tinkering and dive deeper and an ASL class was the way to do it.
Two hours flew by, with a great instructor, and overview of manual alphabet, number 1-10, and some basic hand signs.
My goals are to 1) learn ASL, 2) learn - as a hearing person - to have be deeper understanding of the deaf world and culture. There are a number of people in my church who are deaf and I feel it's difficult to get to know them without my entering their world on their terms and learning ASL. 3) perhaps a future new career as an ASL interpreter?
Great to be here! Please feel more than free to contact me, advise me, correct me, and help me understand (inasmuch as it's possible) what your world is like.
Respectfully and with anticipation,
Timothy
Two hours flew by, with a great instructor, and overview of manual alphabet, number 1-10, and some basic hand signs.
My goals are to 1) learn ASL, 2) learn - as a hearing person - to have be deeper understanding of the deaf world and culture. There are a number of people in my church who are deaf and I feel it's difficult to get to know them without my entering their world on their terms and learning ASL. 3) perhaps a future new career as an ASL interpreter?
Great to be here! Please feel more than free to contact me, advise me, correct me, and help me understand (inasmuch as it's possible) what your world is like.
Respectfully and with anticipation,
Timothy