Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Language

So lately I've been debating on whether to learn American Sign Language (ASL) or Spanish. Both are very interesting to me but I hardly have time for either. I love watching ASL and have always wanted to know how to sign but I think in the future, Spanish would be much more beneficial. I've never even met someone who is deaf and I don't know how much longer technology will allow us to have issues with hearing. I think eventually technology will allow us to fix all hearing problems and there won't be much need for sign language unless it's concerning babies, the elderly, and things like this. With Spanish, more and more Spanish-speaking people are moving to the United States and I'm working with more Spanish-speaking children who are learning English as a second language. Too bad it's super hard to learn a second language lol. If only I would have taken Spanish in school (rather than German) and took it seriously. Oh well! In the meantime, perhaps I'll try to study a little of both. It wouldn't hurt to know a little Spanish and I'd love to learn more sign language. If you ever get bored, get on youtube and watch the music videos of people signing, they're super fun to watch and try to replicate :)

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