Today I will talk about sign language. Now I'm doing a workshop about this and also I made this workshop a few years ago. It has always interested me how the deaf communicate, how they relate to others In a world in which apparently most people are listening. So learn their language also becomes a form of inclusion.
The main thing in sign language is that this is not universal, it changes in each city, so also in each country. Deaf people have their own grammar, structure and way of thinking, which is very different from that used by listeners, there are no articles and there are some verbs that do not exist. There are words that are represented by more than one signal and there are long ideas that can be represented simply by a sign.
Another important idea is that deaf people are not mute, though they are usually called deaf-mute.
Besides the deaf do not call each other for their names but call each other for their nicknames, which are always related to a particular aspect that identifies them, for example the hair, their glases or a mole.
The body language is critical in sign language because they need to use gestures to understand the intent of the message.
For this and many other things deaf culture is definitely fascinating.
I would like to learn sign language. Do you teach it?
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