American Sign Language (ASL) speaker learning to write English

May 31, 2012 Language discussions 3

 
I received in interesting email today from a deaf English learner who communicates using ASL (American Sign Language).

He’s now trying to learn written English.

Does anyone else share his situation or have you got any tips for him?

ASL is not related to English; both its grammar and vocabulary are completely different. Switching to ‘standard’ written English is clearly not an easy thing to do.
 

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3 Comments

  1. Manuel - June 11, 2012, 7:22 am Reply

    I like to study english, but My english is not good.I tried to write english because I am deaf man. I write american sign language ( ASL ) sentence is not clear english. I want to write change from (ASL) to Right sentence in English. that is why I have difficult to write proper english is not bad.

    Thank you

  2. Al Navas - June 11, 2012, 5:02 pm Reply

    You might wish to contact Natalie Williams on Google+, Stuart. She may be able to give you great contacts.

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