[Noisebridge-discuss] ASL group?

[Mikolaj Habryn]

Would love to learn - neither know any deaf people nor plan on any
picking any up in the immediate future, but I see endless practical
applications nonetheless. Is it feasible to just work from one of the
books you mentioned if starting from scratch?

m.

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Sai Emrys<noisebridge at saizai.com> wrote:
> Anyone here interested in having an American Sign Language study /
> conversation group?
>
> I'm low advanced - fluent enough to have most normal conversations
> near full speed (with bootstrapping for jargon), planned
> interpretations (e.g. ASL music videos - see my youtube acct), and
> teach most stuff, but not enough to do arbitrary full-speed
> interpretation. For me it's purely about the language, as I'm totally
> neutral towards d/Deaf culture etc etc. I'm decently well read on ASL
> linguistics & structure, so I can explain the grammar pretty well.
>
> I could lead study or answer most grammatical and vocabulary questions
> if people have some other source to work from, e.g. any of the usual
> courses. (Signing Naturally is fine; the green book series - I think
> just called 'American Sign Language' - is fairly good also, at least
> in teacher's edition.)
>
> So: interest? Present ability? Connection to Deaf culture and/or deaf people?
>
>  - Sai
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