Thanks for doing an AMA, it's really great so far! I've read couple of your responses, and can't help but notice your English is really good. See, my mum works with deaf kids (she's a Polish teacher; I'm from Poland) and tries to teach them how to understand written text and write properly, but hardly ever does a deaf child acquire a linguistic fluency of a kid without hearing problems. My mum explained once that for the kids she teaches, it is like learning a foreign language (since their "mother tongue" is the sign language, and the speaking/writing language doesn't resemble it even the slightest). Many of her students who now are adults can't write a research paper or read a book (and understand it), not because they are dumb, but because it is written in a totally different linguistic medium.
Was the written/spoken language acquisition also difficult for you? Or since you haven't been deaf from since you were born, you don't have such difficulties?
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Thanks for doing an AMA, it's really great so far! I've read couple of your responses, and can't help but notice your English is really good. See, my mum works with deaf kids (she's a Polish teacher; I'm from Poland) and tries to teach them how to understand written text and write properly, but hardly ever does a deaf child acquire a linguistic fluency of a kid without hearing problems. My mum explained once that for the kids she teaches, it is like learning a foreign language (since their "mother tongue" is the sign language, and the speaking/writing language doesn't resemble it even the slightest). Many of her students who now are adults can't write a research paper or read a book (and understand it), not because they are dumb, but because it is written in a totally different linguistic medium.
Was the written/spoken language acquisition also difficult for you? Or since you haven't been deaf from since you were born, you don't have such difficulties?
edit: grammar, duh
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