become fluent in ASL

I just graduated from an ITP. Gosh I sure hope I’m fluent. Haha well, an important realization is that language is dynamic. It’s always changing and people in different areas have different ways to express themselves. I will ALWAYS be learning. hey it makes life interesting. Woot! “Life long learners.”

I just moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and don’t know where I can take advanced ASL courses, does anybody have any info on this?

I started learning this a while ago, but had a short break that turned into an even longer break and I have now decided that I need to start up again. This is something I really want to do. So what is stopping me, right?

I have already completed 3 ASL classes but want to furthur my understanding of the language. Maybe one day become an interpreter!

For work and to teach my kids.

I don’t know if I’ll ever get there but I’m still working on it. This Summer I will have to set some major goals for myself. Perhaps going to at least a few deaf events a week. Re-reading my ASL Green-Book , Deaf Culture text, Linguistics, and Reading between the signs. I’m gonna go make myself a summer to do list! lol hopefully I’ll be motivated enough to keep studying this summer.

Life is short, so I want to spend my time doing something I really care about … If I become an interpreter I expect myself to be linguistically flexible and able to give quality interpretations. Hence real fluency in ASL is crucial!
~fingers crossed I get there eventually, wish me luck.

how do you go about doing this?

I just got married, and my husbands grandmother is deaf. My husband is the only one of her grandchildren that can speak sign language. When I visit, I would like to be able to speak to her and understand her, and hopefully she would feel not so sad about me and her grandson being married.

It will probably take years, but I will do it. My vocabulary thus far:

Abortion
A Lot
Asian
Asshole
Back
Bathroom
Bear
Beautiful
Bitch
Bored
Boy
Can’t
Chicken
Chinese
Cold
Cool
Crazy
Creepy
Cunt
Damn
Dirty
Don’t Care
Eat
Enjoy
Father
Flatter
Forget
Fuck
Fun
Gay
Girl
Good
Guess
Handsome
Have
Heaven
Helicopter
Hell
Hippie
How are you
I
In
Jealous
Jerk
Know
Lazy
Learn
Lesbian
Like
Little-Bit
Loser
Love
Lunch
Man
Me Too
Meditate
Meet
Moon
Mormon
Morning
Mother
Name
Nerd
Nice
No
Noodle
Not
Nothing
Old
Poor You
Privately
Same Here
Sent
Shit
Shut-up
Sign
Smart
Son of a Bitch
Soul
Stop Staring at Me
Sun
Sure
Talk
Text
Think
Too Bad
Turtle
Understand
Wait
Want
Water
Weekend
Weird
What
What’s Up
What are you Doing
With
Without
Wow
Yes
You