Reddit reviews 500 Flash Cards of American Sign Language

I can totally relate to the desire of not wanting to deal with environmental sounds and wanting to communicate silently and naturally...with our bodies.

I just started learning ASL as well after one false start a few years back.

For starters if you're not attending a school or class, I would start with www.lifeprint.com Secondly, on advice from a friend who's an interpreter, I do things like finger spell street signs as I'm driving. These flash cards are also really great and come in a nice quality box with a key ring you can switch out cards from depending on what you're studying: https://www.amazon.com/Barrons-Flash-Cards-American-Language/dp/0764162225/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473871285&sr=8-1&keywords=asl+flash+cards

Lastly, video over internet is a great option, i.e. Skype. I regularly send video 'texts' to my friend through an app called Glide, especially for quick questions.

I was an international relations major and while I didn't pick up a double major in any language we were required to take at least two years of a language and study abroad. I did a year of Japanese, tested into second year Spanish and finished that up, and then studied abroad in Korea where I powered through a year's worth of Korean in one semester. I love learning languages. It's ridiculously fun and I'm just fascinated by them.

Funny enough, though, the language I most want to learn now is American Sign Language. I am hearing impaired. I have been since I was little but it's gotten worse as I've gotten older and now for some reason I have psychosomatic hearing loss in my one good ear so. That sucks. I've had to accept that I need more help since starting law school. I had note takers in some classes. I'm looking into self training a hearing dog for the home so I don't accidentally burn the house down or not hear someone breaking in when I'm living on my own. In coming to this whole acceptance I've realized I should probably learn ASL now while I still have like 65% hearing just in case the rest of it decides to go. I figured these flash cards would be useful in that endeavour. My university assigns them as required materials to their undergrad ASL classes.

I also added this Spanish for legal professionals book because I'm taking the Texas bar exam at the end of the month and I intend to be a prosecutor in the future. I know some Spanish and with some studying I can probably get pretty good at it again. But I know absolutely zero legal terms in Spanish. So this book would be hella useful in my professional life.

So I leave it to you to decide which to gift if you pick me. I like surprises. :D