Tip of the week

Another visualization game:

Practice describing favorite people and places in English to a friend, then show that friend a photo of the person or place.

Negotiate how to improve the description.

When you are both satisfied, do it again in ASL. Again, negotiate until you are both satisfied.

The difficulty in description is finding any language satisfactory for the intangibles that accompany the description. By practicing first in our primary language, we increase our ability to quantify those feelings and emotions. This in turn will enhance our ability to use our secondary language to describe those same feelings and emotions.