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I need to find ways to practice Auslan.

I learnt a huge amount of it back in 1998, largely so that I could communicate with unexpected Deaf people I happened to come across. And that's fairly pointless if I don't ever practice it and thus end up in the situation I'm in now, where our conversation would be restricted to "man", "woman", "yes", "thanks", "fast", and "tomorrow".

Unfortunately, despite VicDeaf offering tutoring sessions on their website, whenever I try contacting them, they say "Hi! Come and do an eight-week course!" which is not what I want at all.

I'm thinking of checking out a church with deaf services, but does anyone else have suggestions?

Date: 2010-12-17 12:58 am (UTC)
trouble: Sketch of Hermoine from Harry Potter with "Bookworms will rule the world (after we finish the background reading)" on it (Default)
From: [personal profile] trouble
A lot of Deaf people use YouTube. It's where I find all my AusLan videos. Would that be helpful?

Date: 2010-12-17 01:07 am (UTC)
trouble: Sketch of Hermoine from Harry Potter with "Bookworms will rule the world (after we finish the background reading)" on it (Default)
From: [personal profile] trouble
That is what I've done! :) You can also add qualifiers, I think. I was looking for Auslan music videos, and poetry and stuff.

Date: 2010-12-17 04:45 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
"cloud" and "community"? I guess you'll be OK for Web 2.0, then :-)

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Date: 2010-12-17 06:29 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] immer_am_lesen
I went to evening classes with my mum, when I was in Yr 5.... :-)
It was such fun. Looking back, I think I'd become quite fluent for a kid!
Now, all I remember is the signs for 'I', 'want', 'wait', 'help', 'don't',
'coffee', 'tea', 'mosquito', 'car', 'truck', 'bus', 'home', 'morning', and I can fingerspell, given enough time to work out which order the vowels go in... ;-)

You should definitely get back into it!

Date: 2010-12-18 05:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] klme.livejournal.com
I can say "turtle", "mosquito", "boy"(I think - it may be girl...) and "toilet". We could communicate about a very limited number of topics between us!

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