Sign Language Classroom

It’s funny that my second language is more articulate and disciplined than my first. I think that it should be the other way around. I feel my first language should be more articulate and disciplined than my second. I began to learn Sign Language when I started at Milwaukee Sign Language School when I was three years old. It wasn’t until K-4 when I really began to understand it, I would watch the Interpreter and mimic exactly what she was doing as we were reading a story. I would then connect the signs with the words being read and, voila!, I was learning Sign Language.

In the third grade my English started deteriorating, I was influenced by my peers who spoke slang most of the time and I began speaking that way. Throughout middle school, it progressively got worse but, to my surprise, I was told that my Sign Language was outstanding for someone my age. I would always say “Well, I have been learning for a long time, and my best friend Montaro is deaf so I use it frequently. I met Montaro in K-5, when my K-4 teacher, Ms. Koneazny became his foster mom, because she …show more content…
My ASL (American Sign Language) Teacher Ms. Elko from MSLS, now teaches and is an interpreter here at King, and all the students in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing program are my acquaintances, most of them I know from MSLS. Also, the other interpreters at King, Ms. Amber, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. Lionheart always comment on how proficient and disciplined my Sign Language is, and they thank me for socializing with their students because some of them can’t communicate in any other way than in Sign Language, and for some students it can be hard to make friends and socialize with them, and having an interpreter while they’re talking to their friends is not something they want, but having someone that is in the conversation already “interpret” for them in a sense is much