It takes an average of 8 or more years to become fluent in American Sign Language (ASL). The proficiency chart below (created by American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) shows levels of ...

He's taking American Sign Language classes on Zoom ... mine. We talked about numbers, one through however high we went... family member's names and how to sign father, mother, son and daughter.

American Sign Language was heavily influenced by French Sign Language, but it wasn’t standardized or formalized until the American School for the Deaf was founded in 1817. The number of people ...