Honestly I found ASL easier to learn than, say, the limited Spanish I tried to learn in high school. Maybe because it doesn’t conflict with the current way you communicate. Just from watching the ASL 1 − 4 lectures I linked to, I was surprisingly able to manage once dropped in a one-on-one conversation with a deaf person.
It would definitely be good to learn with a buddy. My wife hasn’t explicitly learned it yet, but she’s picked up some from me. Israel is a tough choice, I’m not sure what the learning resources are like for it.
Honestly I found ASL easier to learn than, say, the limited Spanish I tried to learn in high school. Maybe because it doesn’t conflict with the current way you communicate. Just from watching the ASL 1 − 4 lectures I linked to, I was surprisingly able to manage once dropped in a one-on-one conversation with a deaf person.
It would definitely be good to learn with a buddy. My wife hasn’t explicitly learned it yet, but she’s picked up some from me. Israel is a tough choice, I’m not sure what the learning resources are like for it.
You should put this in your main post—it greatly increased my interest in actually trying to learn.
Thanks for the feedback!