A_Perspective_On_American_Sign_Language

A Perspective On American Sign Language How My View Changed on Deafness In this semester my perspective on the deaf language and the deaf culture has changed and given me greater insight to ASL as a second language. Thought out my high school years I tried taking a language class and failed because some of the concepts were difficult for me to understand. When I discovered there was a language requirement for college I was nervous because I had such a hard time in high school learning a foreign language. I then found out that I could take American Sign Language to fill this requirement. At the time that I realized that I could use ASL as my language requirement I was naive to think that it would be much easier to learn than a “real” language would be. Boy was I wrong. In the first week of class I was over whelmed because of many different parts of signs and how complicated the sentence structure was to learn because it was different than English. What I mostly expected the class to be was a lot of memorizing of signs. Although, that was a small part of the class there were asl, deaf, language, sign, signs, one, different, because, words, meaning, word, spoken, make, languages, english, culture, after, people, first, example, complex, between, two, same, part, learn, community, able, understanding, understand, time, seen, second, reading, out