How can I incorporate this week’s content on gamification with my learning of ASL? This can also apply to language learning in general, how can we gamify this kind of learning?

One of the resources we learned about was Khan Academy which provides interactive learning components such as this one here. It is limited though, there was only one portion of a lesson that included ASL. I am continually shocked with how few resources there are for ASL awareness and knowledge learning.

This prompted me to ask the question, do the amount of resources reflect the demographic? The Canadian Association of the Deaf present statistics within Canada of members of the community.

“There are 357,000 culturally Deaf Canadians and 3.21 million hard of hearing Canadians.”

Canadian Association of the Deaf, 2015

In the article linked, the CAD-ASC also note the inability to specify exact numbers when so many sources disagree. The numbers provided here represent one survey and act as a ball park for the expanse of the Deaf community.

So, if there are around 3.21 million Canadians hard of hearing, why isn’t ASL more readily available? I looked up ASL on the gamified app Duolingo but it isn’t an option. Other ASL learning sites are all costly alternatives to the language, whereas something like Duolingo is free.

How can I gamify my language learning then?

I have continued to work on my song translation: here is what I have so far!

Listen to the song to remember the lyrics. The video is the first two sentences. Keep in mind, this is my poor translation going word for word. I need to get in touch with someone who can actually help me structure the sentences correctly.