Hi Evan, thanks for donelepivg this game and for the feedback!1) A woman named Shona Beamsley showed me what NZSL I know. I first met Shona in May, when I virtually mugged her at the disability fair with my pens and my black rock. In fact she gave me the deaf name’ rock . I met Shona again when I went to a one-off NZSL training she was running then a few weeks ago I asked her to come over and translate’ WAYK into NZSL with me.2) and 3) Yes we both helped each other a little in each other’s languages, though we didn’t fully run the game in Japanese once we had the proper NZSL game down, we started in on English with this pidgin-ised sign language and kept following the fun with that. Mai already knows a lot of English, but we were running with the theory that playing the game would eventually have an impact on her fluency. Mostly it was about the fun of the game, and the more we played the more we wanted to play!
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September 1st, 2015 on 12:30
Hi Evan, thanks for donelepivg this game and for the feedback!1) A woman named Shona Beamsley showed me what NZSL I know. I first met Shona in May, when I virtually mugged her at the disability fair with my pens and my black rock. In fact she gave me the deaf name’ rock . I met Shona again when I went to a one-off NZSL training she was running then a few weeks ago I asked her to come over and translate’ WAYK into NZSL with me.2) and 3) Yes we both helped each other a little in each other’s languages, though we didn’t fully run the game in Japanese once we had the proper NZSL game down, we started in on English with this pidgin-ised sign language and kept following the fun with that. Mai already knows a lot of English, but we were running with the theory that playing the game would eventually have an impact on her fluency. Mostly it was about the fun of the game, and the more we played the more we wanted to play!