I leaned sign language during Linguistics class. SFCC students taught us. My partner was a woman who has two children and has divorced once. She has a nephew who is deaf, so she learned sign language. They can use sign language fluently. They taught some things such as numbers, alphabets, and how to introduce ourselves. First, numbers are very easy to understand because it is the same to count numbers. It is the easiest sign language because people know it shows numbers even Japanese. Second, they taught me an alphabet. It has some difficult parts such as “K” or “Z”. However, if I will remember these, I can understand easily. When we don’t know the sign language, they can spell it. It is same as usual, for example, when I don’t know the word, I will ask how to spell it. Therefore, we have to know alphabets of sign language. It will be helpful for us and a deaf. Finally, they taught us how to introduce ourselves such as “My name is…” and “I am from…” Also, they taught me some days of the week. It is very nice to know because it will need to introduce myself and days. I learned sign language for the first time. I think people who are not deaf, have to learn because it is the language of the deaf. They can understand our mouth, so they compromise to us. However, we have to compromise for them as much as we can. It was so nice to meet them and a good opportunity to know sign language.
I leaned sign language during Linguistics class. SFCC students taught us. My partner was a woman who has two children and has divorced once. She has a nephew who is deaf, so she learned sign language. They can use sign language fluently. They taught some things such as numbers, alphabets, and how to introduce ourselves. First, numbers are very easy to understand because it is the same to count numbers. It is the easiest sign language because people know it shows numbers even Japanese. Second, they taught me an alphabet. It has some difficult parts such as “K” or “Z”. However, if I will remember these, I can understand easily. When we don’t know the sign language, they can spell it. It is same as usual, for example, when I don’t know the word, I will ask how to spell it. Therefore, we have to know alphabets of sign language. It will be helpful for us and a deaf. Finally, they taught us how to introduce ourselves such as “My name is…” and “I am from…” Also, they taught me some days of the week. It is very nice to know because it will need to introduce myself and days. I learned sign language for the first time. I think people who are not deaf, have to learn because it is the language of the deaf. They can understand our mouth, so they compromise to us. However, we have to compromise for them as much as we can. It was so nice to meet them and a good opportunity to know sign language.