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Dana Jean

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Doc Creed said:
I've brushed up on it from You Tube and follow Nyle DiMarco on Twitter because he's a deaf advocate and for the reasons I stated above. Good luck on your lessons! It is a beautiful language and fun, too!
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The first link is my main source of learning. The second guy is good too. Signing Savvy is a quick resource when I can't find how to spell something and the first link doesn't give me an answer.

http://www.lifeprint.com/


Signing Savvy | ASL Sign Language Video Dictionary
 
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Doc Creed said:
He's fast, I like that. The guy I watch is too slow, but I guess he just wants to be sure his students learn by repetition. Wtg...keep it up!
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I think as a teacher, they go slow, but they do start speeding up as time goes on. If they go too fast, I get lost a bit so appreciate that they do slow it down. I think the speed part will come in time. But they say it is important to practice with a deaf person, so I am hoping to get that chance eventually.
 
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Dana Jean said:
I think as a teacher, they go slow, but they do start speeding up as time goes on. If they go too fast, I get lost a bit so appreciate that they do slow it down. I think the speed part will come in time. But they say it is important to practice with a deaf person, so I am hoping to get that chance eventually.
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Yes, I was fortunate to grow up with a deaf friend so it became second nature, but with a lapse of 15 years I had to remember what I'd forgotten and had plenty of help from new deaf friends. They've been beyond patient with me.
 
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I am really fast with the alphabet. My best friend and I learned it after a near drowning of a deaf child when we were little.

I must say, we have had fun with our little secret conversations over the years. Rarely in front of other people, but sometimes. Mostly hands below a table to say something. Nod of head, look.

Private laughs.
 
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I color myself bad thoughts on this one. I really, really (two reallys) do not like that Elf on the Shelf. I sound like Grinch-I hate the photos of the elf doing "cute" things and he is just so dang creepy.
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I loathe the elf. I shared the story about my kindergarten teacher and her "elf-possession" in the Big thread. the Ogre and I were at an antique mall this weekend and saw one of those from the 70s - just like the one she had and I re-enacted her elf-possession for him. He was terrified. And he's 46. What was she thinking doing that to a room full of 5 year olds. I remember some of the kids crying. I was too terrified to make a sound.
 
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