If you think ASL and English are the same...
You will learn how different they are and how much more you need to know before you can say you are "fluent" in ASL. Anyone can learn a language but Sign Language is more intricate than we think.
American Sign Language IS a language and it's NOT Universal...
Spoken languages aren't universal, so why would sign language be? Each culture has it's own unique values and words for things which helps form language within those cultures. The Deaf community is no different.
You didn't know that Deaf culture was a real thing...
That's right Deaf culture is a thing and we in the "Hearing" world are told so many things that we should NOT be doing when engaging with a deaf person.
