This is the second post documenting my ASL journey and there have been some major changes to our learning strategies since the last post. As mentioned previously, we were initially a group of five meeting twice a week but now we have decided to split
Read more…Hello to everyone reading this! I am excited to begin documenting and sharing my progress as a self-directed language learner focusing on American Sign Language (ASL). I am a beginner in ASL, I was initially curious to take up the language for two im
Read more…Here is the link to my podcast with my community partner.
https://richmond.box.com/s/x9goeo14d95p596ig3cttqzeljxcp4hc
Read more…How have you started writing in the target language? Do you prefer to type or write free hand? Have you started to see patterns emerge in the structures between words, clauses, and sentences? What is the relationship between simple and complex senten
Read more…(a) As a language learner, I think the most important thing I have learned about myself is that I really really need visuals when I am learning, mostly to keep myself engage in what I am learning. What I mean by this is that what I have noticed is th
Read more…Imagine that you have received a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of your target language and culture. How would you get started, and what would you investigate? How would different structural components presented in class appear in your
Read more…Go back and watch the recording of your presentation of your learning plan on the class PanOpto collection on Blackboard. Comment briefly on how things are going. What has changed? How have you incorporated materials and insights from class into your
Read more…Reflect on the history of your target language. To what language family does it belong? What sounds, words, and structures exemplify periods of contact with other cultures? How do these considerations enhance your understanding of the target language
Read more…If I was to be offered a research grant to conduct a linguistic study of Nepali culture, I would investigate the commonalities between Nepali and the other languages in the same branch or family that Nepali belongs. This is more because I have been c
Read more…Do some preliminary research on what interests you about the target culture and describe how this topic relates to language. Do you need any special vocabulary or linguistic knowledge to engage this topic? If so, have you included objectives in your
Read more…What is the difference between sound and spelling? Why is this distinction significant for your language-learning efforts? Describe the phonetic inventory of your target language. Are there sounds in your language that don’t exist in American English
Read more…Attached below is the PPT for our final cultural presentation.
Read more…I started writing in Nepali after I felt comfortable and sure that I was writing it properly. I noticed that when I was writing, I always second guessed what I was writing and was always checking to see if what I wrote was properly written, which thi
Read more…Here's the link to the first and only Adhikari, Mahmood, Wise podcast where we talk about ASL and our experiences as autonomous learners this semester. We hope you learn something and enjoy the podcast!
https://richmond.box.com/s/gauupior92mlpczyzar
Read more…As we approach the end of the academic year, I can look back and reflect on a tumultuous semester in which myself and my friend Susmita were able to do ASL classes over Zoom for about 10 weeks. Towards the beginning of the course, we learned about th
Read more…If I was to be given a research grant to conduct a linguistic study on ASL and its culture, I would spend time and resources further exploring the different topics that Susmita and I brough up in our final cultural presentation. These include topics
Read more…There is no free handwriting or typing within ASL rather, we use a combination of signs, expressions, and even finger spelling to communicate our thoughts. The structure of sentences within ASL also varies greatly from that of English. For example, i
Read more…Languages go extinct gradually as successive generations of speakers become bilingual and then lose proficiency in their native language. Most often, speakers tend to favor a more prestigious language because of the potential social and economic bene
Read more…Having watched the presentation of our original learning plan from the beginning of the semester, I can proudly reflect and say that so far things have been going smoothly despite some initial troubles with the Zoom technology and our class setup. Pr
Read more…Once again, as we are learning ASL, for the purposes of this discussion I will be focusing on my native language of Bengali. “Bengali” also known as “Bangla” belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family and the “lingua franca” or “bridge language” of th
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