Learning American Sign Langauage

[darthsidious]

One of my new roommates is deaf, and I'd like to be able to communicate with him w/o having to write everything down. Plus it seems like the perfect opportunity to learn something interesting. I just sat down with him today, and he just walked me through some basic phrases, though a lot of it disappeared quite quickly from my head.

I was wondering if some of you knew of some good resources to check out that would enable me to become reasonably conversant in sign language? How long can I expect it to take me to become reasonably fluent?

 

[Juno]

holler at me! i'm deaf!

to be honest, you could try and find any ASL club that offers lessons but on the web, i think it's not that resourceful. you could just go to barnes and noble and grab a book to learn.

 

[darthsidious]

bump for the morning/afternoon crew

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: darthsidious
bump for the morning/afternoon crew

It looks difficult.

 

[Turin39789]

I'm interested too! I have a younger cousin who is deaf, and I got a few ESL lessons when I was young(5-6) but my brother, cousin and I kept getting kicked out for fighting/nuisance.

I'm going to be taking 3 semesters of ASL at the local CC to transfer to my university to qualify as my foreign language. It's a semester more than I'd have to do otherwise, but I've forgotten most of my spanish and french so I can't really jump back in at the level they want me to and I would really like to be able to speak to my cousin.