Barbaro
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Yeah. Try this.. Learning Spanish, German, English, SEE, and ASL at once. My parents are from two different countries. As a deaf kid, I struggled to learn to listen to my family members' thick accents. I didn't learn sign language until I was nine year old. My parents felt I should be learning SEE (my first sign language), so I can communicate with deaf people.
When I was 13, my family and I moved out of the US and living in a different country. I didn't sign often because I had to learn to speak English and.. eh Spanish at once. Years later, we moved back to the US, I met deaf students and I was going to sign.. but suddenly, I couldn't think anymore! I felt odd as if my head was about to explode. I had to tell my brain to sign, but it blocked me out completely. It took a short while to learn sign language again. They also encouraged me to learn ASL and I was like," what the heck is ASL? Oh, boy. I must have been missed out when I was not residing in the US at the time." It took me years to learn ASL, but I don't sign ASL 100%. I am kinda of more PSE person. I still have to teach myself to think first, before I say or write. Dang my brain..
When I was 13, my family and I moved out of the US and living in a different country. I didn't sign often because I had to learn to speak English and.. eh Spanish at once. Years later, we moved back to the US, I met deaf students and I was going to sign.. but suddenly, I couldn't think anymore! I felt odd as if my head was about to explode. I had to tell my brain to sign, but it blocked me out completely. It took a short while to learn sign language again. They also encouraged me to learn ASL and I was like," what the heck is ASL? Oh, boy. I must have been missed out when I was not residing in the US at the time." It took me years to learn ASL, but I don't sign ASL 100%. I am kinda of more PSE person. I still have to teach myself to think first, before I say or write. Dang my brain..