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hey guys sign zero here and today we're
gonna be talking about how I learned
sign language from well Ryan my
boyfriend who is deaf hello can't really
see each other with stuff in the middle
a lot of you guys have been asking us
questions about how to learn sign
language how I learned sign language so
we're gonna be talking about that when
did I start learning sign language I
started learning when I met you and I
was around 13 or 14 years old when we
met I I didn't know any sign language I
might have known like the ABCs just a
little bit but even have them memorized
at that point I don't even see it as it
being hard I just wanted to like
communicate with you and you were this
guy that I was seeing and we would flirt
and joke around but we learned first was
like body language and facial
expressions and we uh we actually just
made a recent video about that how I
assume we assume each other's sentences
so you guys can watch that if you want
to
maybe after one week of us sitting like
writing notes and using other ways of
communicating he started to teach me
sign language and so we would have a
conversation I would say something like
meet me over there I wanted to say meet
me over by the bathroom for example like
meet me over no but no people meet at
the bathroom not in the bathroom like
outside the bathroom okay
by example that example okay meet me on
the field of that that a good
appropriate example okay so if I wanted
to say meet me on over on the field I if
I knew how to sign like meet me over
there but I didn't know the sign for
fueled and I would start to spell out
feels Ryan would kind of interrupt and
be like oh he would come like
was this complete he would complete my
sentences
you say feels like nod your head too
kind of like oh I understand what you're
trying to say and I would I would get it
and then I would have filled in my
vocabulary so I would just add that to
my palate and next time I could use it
and so we just I just build my
vocabulary that way and we would meet
every every day at school for lunch or
snack so we would have a lot of
conversations a lot of practice
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and I was actually taking Latin that
year
yeah he was or you were um so my first
year I was taking Latin but Ryan was he
was taking ASL one so next year take ASL
with me but he was already at ASL - and
I would have to start ASL 1 come on
I just went to go talk with the
professor and I signed to him and then
he was like okay that's why I need to
join it's only two
and that then my June
junior year I took as three at a
community college with you yeah yeah
reposted yeah I was like it's like a
week or something like that we had
issues back then so but I also during
that time more involved in the deaf
community because Ryan would invite me
to deaf coffee night hang out with his
best friends also we also we went to a
depth convention a great convention
where we were only dating maybe two
years one year too it was pretty early
yeah that way I got to see other people
who signed and saw how big of a
community is is not just you know one
person that I know who's deaf it's this
whole huge community so really there
were three things that helped me learn
sign language one um being immersed and
involved in the deaf community and
learning from a native signer I had my
own personal teacher which is really
nice too taking ASL courses at school
that really helped me with mostly
vocabulary and all the technical
technical things and then third one was
online courses and those helped me like
with practice and
you know if I needed a reminder or if I
just wanted to practice my receptive
skills I used online courses sorry
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to giving some advice about learning
sign language there are just a few
things I want to say the before we end
this video these two things I found have
really helped me learn sign language
through our whole relationship and it's
one not to really focus solely on the
signs to care about communicating and
whatever ways of doing that body
language facial expressions and the
signs will come on their own and to
always ask how to sign things don't
worry that you don't know a lot of signs
yeah I've never met someone who was like
why are you asking me how to sign things
or being offended
and I know a lot of people who are just
starting to learn sign language they are
really concerned about being offensive
or is it is it offensive if I asked how
to sign things or is it offensive if I
don't know a lot of signs but I try to
communicate still so be willing to be
okay with not knowing all the signs
because it's just naturally not gonna
know all how to sign sweetly from the
beginning it's a whole process and just
being patient with yourself and being
honest that you don't know all the signs
that's fine
just ask and there's so many people out
there nice people who will help you
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all right we'll see you guys next time
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