100 Hour 40 Day Language Challenge - My Intro
First off, this is @nihowdy‘s challenge, which you can find here and I’ll be following the rules as closely as I can. The only exception is I’m actually going for 40/40 Challenge instead of to 100/40, which will put me at 1hr a day, which for works pretty well for me because I pick up signs fairly quickly in comparison to Spanish.
So as far as where I’m starting from, about a year/year and a 1/2 ago, I was studying ASL religiously. I was nearing fluency, I could have full conversations, with names, locations, ages, small talk, daily routine related phrases, among other things. The things I really struggled with were pairing the signs with facial expressions without feeling stupid, thus slacking off on the facial expressions, and using the right hand, as I always tend to accidentally switch and use my left for signs I need my right for, vice versa.
After that, things came up, and I pretty much fell completely off track. I can still sign the alphabet, 1-10, a few colors, and a couple other random words, but generally I’ve forgotten the majority of what I learned.
Going into this, I’m hoping to come out having regained some of the knowledge I’d previously learned, and have a better technical understanding, and generally just a wider range.
So today is day 0, however because I know that with all my other current subjects it will be a little tricky to get an hour done every day, I’ll be counting what I do today towards tomorrow, and giving myself a tiny head start.
As nihowdy says to do in her post, I’ll be posting on day 10, 20, 30, and 40. I’ll give little updates in between as frequently as I can as well. Wish me luck!
A note- As per the rules I’ll be tagging each post with the tag #10040 challenge