A Day in the Life at Thuan An School in Vietnam

[Francis Hult]

Seattle Post Intelligencer

 

A Day in the Life at Thuan An School in Vietnam

 

School at Thuan An starts each week with a 7 am Monday morning flag ceremony. Students line up rank and file by age on the cement drive- bright-eyed and uniform in appearance with their

 

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The older children rely completely on sign language while the younger ones are getting their education through the spoken word. When these two groups converge in social settings, sign language is the communications mode of choice.

 

Vietnamese sign language, like the American edition (ASL), has its own syntax and sentence structure unique to the local spoken language. Its development was influenced by the French, which in turn, was derived from English sign language. 

 

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http://blog.seattlepi.com/getoutsideyourself/archives/181160.asp

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