beautiful it looked. Being a new signer I found this captivating and I knew I had to learn how to sign fluently. In classes where there are interpreters for the deaf I find myself watching them trying to pick up some new signs.Another beautiful part of this language is that it is quiet, you could speak to someone from across a crowded room and never even utter a word. When people speak about learning how to sign, they are only going on what they see outside from deaf classmates, movies, etc.. The language is very difficult to grasp, it is in fact a language with its own syntax. In the movie "Bridge to Silence" we see plays done by the deaf and as an observer it looks even better than a dance and it even seems more rhythmic than music.An in-class experience we had was when Walter a deaf man came to visit. He explained many things about himself in sign, and moved his lips to help us understand better. He told us about his family and how he and his wife feel differently about the hearing. She would rather not partake in activities with the hearing while he doesn't really care.I could write a book on both of the aspects I have chosen but I feel it is very important to get across my feelings about ASL, deaf people and the culture. The reason I chose ASL as my language is because it intrigued me, it looked interesting and different. I have also come to a greater understanding of cultures as a whole from this one class alone. I can imagine all the embarrassment deaf people must have felt throughout history in this world. The majority always feels it is superior to the minority therefore what the minority does is viewed as wrong or weird.In conclusion to this paper I feel that the problems we encounter as hearing people are not so different than the problems deaf people encounter. The prejudices we encounter are different though. While people could be prejudiced against us for our religion, color, race etc. we are prejudiced aga...
