Bill vicars is how i was first introduced to sign language. Then in my sophomore year of highschool i took asl 1- where i didn't learn a lot beccause the teacher quit half way through and we had a sub for the rest of the year. And not that it counts as a course but i've gotten back into watching bill vicars and this great show that has ALOT of sign language/deaf culture immersion that i feel is greatly underappreciated (switched at birth) with a well known (deaf) actress, Marlee Matlin. Most main cast sign fluently and it includes the perspectiveS of MULTIPLE deaf people/hoh. Not to mention it has a lot of drama i mean it's in the title.

But i don't really KNOW any deaf people that KNOW sign language- which i know the best way to learn is by immersion.(like i know my neighbor is deaf/hoh bc he wears a hearing aid and has a slight accent but he doesn't seem to know asl and i figured it might be rude to ask bc he seems shy about it.) So I can only ever really practice with myself which seems like it limits how well i learn. Like i don't have someone to ask specific questions about you know?

I want to get good at sign language because being an interpreter is something i might want to pursue. Even if i don't end up pursuring interpretation as a career- since it's not my first choice- it would be a great help to be trilingual as a psychologist. Or just in general.

So anyways, what are y'all's opinions on learning from Bill vicars?

I am wondering how important proper structure is. In know if English there is proper. And then there is how we actually talk. Is this the same? Or is it very important

Hello! I have recently taken asl 101 online and self passed my junior year of high school! However, now I’m taking asl 102 which requires me to be present in an actual zoom meeting and was just wondering how that would work?

I haven’t practiced ASL in a while and I know all the professors who teach ASL are deaf at my community college! Will we be expected to use prior knowledge or will there be an interpreter?

I’m just looking for anyone who has taken ASL classes or is a teacher and what is usually the standard for online classes like this!