Brown ’12 Discusses American Sign Language Classes

David PesciDecember 8, 20101min
An English student discusses her experience, and enjoyment, garnered from ASL classes

In a recent piece in The New York Times that reports on the rapid expansion of American Sign Language (ASL) classes in American universities and colleges, Emily Brown ’12 comments on her experience and enjoyment learning ASL. “I imagine myself painting pictures in the air,” Brown says. “It feels more poetic than other languages.”