Do people really expect me to want to teach it? It's extremely painstaking, long, and difficult work to teach someone how to sign and it could be very annoying to do it at a time. On top of list, once I teach them, they would go out and tell all friends and then next thing I know is everyone is around me trying to learn sign lanaguage and get mad at me if other deaf people cannot understand them because they sign sloppy?
It may seem like a exiciting and fun thing to them, but to me it's something very normal and nothing special. So I have no interest in teaching it to anyone unless I will be spending a great deal of time with that person.
2006-08-18 08:52:57 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Friends
beside that most people who teach sign lanaguage make a huge loads of moneys so if people want to learn from me, they should pay me too!
2006-08-18 08:58:05 · update #1
Sounds to me like they are the pricks. If you go to another country and you try to speak their language you dont ask a native to teach you you go to school or get a book. Do you speak out loud and can you read lips. If you can tell them they don't need to learn to sign unless they want to. I deal with lots of different people everyday and find it hard to deal with them I cant imagine how hard it is for you Good Luck
2006-08-18 09:01:46 · answer #1 · answered by jagbeeton 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe you should offer sign language classes, like twice a week and charge maybe so much to join the class, i know i have used sign lanugage a lot in every job i have done, i had to use it when i taught 2 year olds at a day care i had hearing imparied student in my class . when i worked at a gas station some of customers weould only come when i worked because i could communicate with them, I think its a skill that should be taught in school. My daugther is 13 and knows a lot of sign language stuff. and it has really helped her in school with some kids.
2006-08-18 09:01:34 · answer #2 · answered by tammy3873 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, your reasons for not wanting to teach are perfectly reasonable. They are no more outrageous than a musician not willing to give lessons to everyone who wants to learn an instrument (I'm a professional musician).
However, if people react to you by thinking you're being a prick...well, then maybe you are. Not by not wanting to teach, but by the WAY you're conveying your response.
If you're sincere, polite and honest about why you don't want to teach, that's one thing. If you respond like it's SUCH an inconvenience for you to even have to ANSWER them, well, you have to think about that too.
Hope this helps.
2006-08-18 09:04:19 · answer #3 · answered by Timothy W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe they find you interesting and would like a way to communicate with you. Could you just teach them a few easy signs? They could talk with you and not ask for the whole lesson?
2006-08-18 09:04:21 · answer #4 · answered by mickeydoodlebug 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well try to look at it from a different perspective. What occurred to me was not that they wanted to learn it because it is cool, but because they want to connect with you and other deaf people. I would think the people who are not interested are the ones who deserve your contempt. Is this sign language snobbery?
2006-08-18 09:00:50 · answer #5 · answered by crct2004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thank you i feel the same way i learned sign language so i can talk about you in your face why would i teach it sh!t pick up a dictionary and learn it yourself or pay me to teach you the wrong signs so i can laugh at you
2006-08-18 08:59:28 · answer #6 · answered by Dum Spiro Spero 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe they think you would be a good person to teach them such a good skill - at the end of the day it is a way of communicating to a whole group of people out of reach. Take it as a compliment
2006-08-18 08:59:17 · answer #7 · answered by boo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, then charge them, express to them what you have expressed to us...if they don't understand than it's there problem...I know sign language but I had to go to school to learn it, watched movies and spent alot of time with my cousin who is deaf and taught me...they have to work on it and should not relay on you to teach them it all...
2006-08-18 09:01:10 · answer #8 · answered by lilmiss 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The next time someone asks you, refer them to the closest community college for classes.
2006-08-18 08:59:51 · answer #9 · answered by Not Allie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it bothers you so much tell them. Just say no. Or start a class and make them pay to learn!
2006-08-18 08:59:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋