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I'm Kouhei Sugihara, and I'm a tutor and student at Recollé U. I mostly offer tutoring for basic subjects, but lately, a few of my friends have been asking me to teach them sign language. I don't use it much in my daily life, but since I've had hearing problems since I was young, I'm fluent in Japanese sign language and pretty comfortable with American sign language. I don't mind teaching it, since it's something I know a lot about, and everyone keeps telling me that other people might be interested too. So...
Just in case, if I offered sign language tutoring, would anyone be interested? I don't really have a way to get the word out aside from Retrospec, and I'd feel more comfortable offering it to a smaller number of people first. I've been thinking of going for my ASL teaching certification anyway, so... If you want to learn anything, whether it's fingerspelling (letters) or basic signs or something else, I can help you.
Sorry if this isn't the right place for this or something. Thanks.
Just in case, if I offered sign language tutoring, would anyone be interested? I don't really have a way to get the word out aside from Retrospec, and I'd feel more comfortable offering it to a smaller number of people first. I've been thinking of going for my ASL teaching certification anyway, so... If you want to learn anything, whether it's fingerspelling (letters) or basic signs or something else, I can help you.
Sorry if this isn't the right place for this or something. Thanks.
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Fingerspelling is the most beneficial thing to learn, too. If you memorize those 26 signs, you can say anything with only your hands, even if it takes a while.
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it might be useful to learn it so i can sing that way too. i've seen some videos with interpreters in them and i really like the look of it, so if there's a way i can connect to people who are hard of hearing or can't at all then that'd be cool
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does it matter if i'm still in high school?
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i’m pretty good with languages anyway
won’t hurt to add one more, right?
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This is probably going to sound stupid, but it didn't even occur to me until now that there would be a Japanese sign language, even though obviously there would be...
What is it like? I mean, does it sort of follow the spoken/written language, or is it totally its own thing?
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Don't worry, though. It's not something many people think about, but yeah, there are hundreds of different sign languages. I can only speak for the two I know, but the grammar and everything is completely different from a spoken language.
Even aside from that, facial expressions and mouthing sounds while signing are just as important as the signing itself. It's really interesting.
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I mean, it's sort of like having subtitles of one language under audio of another. They can convey more or less the same meaning, but it's almost never a one-to-one correlation. And the thing that's actually being expressed was originally in only one of the languages. So... when you sign and mouth something at the same time, which one is the original, and which is the translation?
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Am I overthinking it? Or is it just not like that?
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When and where should we meet?
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Yes, I can. Have you ever seen anyone use it before?
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Text -> Video!
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