Thw legacy remains. I’m hard of hearing and my parents were told not to teach me sign as a kid because I would only sign and lose my English. Like first of all, spoken English is so common it wasnt going to happen. Secondly, seriously that’s a terrible reason to deny a language.
Then as my country has been crumbling my entire adult life I’ve been more focused on foreign spoken languages than sign because I’m pretty sure Germany won’t take “sure i can’t speak or read German, but i can sign the fuck out of it”
Apparently there is an International Sign language. That may or may not be useful depending on where you are, also American Sign language is used in several countries other than the US. Though nowhere in Europe it seems looking at the map
Thw legacy remains. I’m hard of hearing and my parents were told not to teach me sign as a kid because I would only sign and lose my English. Like first of all, spoken English is so common it wasnt going to happen. Secondly, seriously that’s a terrible reason to deny a language.
Then as my country has been crumbling my entire adult life I’ve been more focused on foreign spoken languages than sign because I’m pretty sure Germany won’t take “sure i can’t speak or read German, but i can sign the fuck out of it”
Apparently there is an International Sign language. That may or may not be useful depending on where you are, also American Sign language is used in several countries other than the US. Though nowhere in Europe it seems looking at the map
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language#Varieties