a) Goals for Week 4:
Continue to learn everyday language and be able to ask questions, especially Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How?
Start learning more religious language. I know Jehovah, Jesus, Bible, and a few other names and that is all. I have discovered that some of the signs used in my religion are different than those that are used elsewhere. So the best way for me to figure out these differences is to ask my language partner, who is the same religion as me.
Goals for Week 5:
Start to learn about music. I haven't discussed this with my language partner yet, but it's something I want to bring up soon. It will be harder to talk about music with the deaf, but I also know ASL speakers who are hearing, so I will be able to sign with them.
b) I will continue to look up words online and just ask my language partner how to say things. We are planning on going to a store and walking around and she is going to point things out to me and tell me the sign OR ask me to guess the sign, as it is often moderately easy to guess signs, especially for objects.
My language partner sometimes attends "silent lunch" or "silent dinner," where the deaf and hearing gather together and have a meal together, but you are not allowed to use your voice at all. I am definitely not at that level yet, but I hope to attend sometime in the next few weeks, even if I know that there will be much that I will not understand.
c) I can evaluate my progress by having a conversation with someone who is not my language partner, whether hearing or deaf. I want others to be able to understand what I am signing without me having to use my voice at all. I also try to sign as much as I can during the day, whenever I know the sign for what I am saying. I still do not know much, but it is a good test for what I do know.
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