POLAND... PJM and SW lesson as part of Science Festival

[Lucyna Dlugolecka]

Hello List!
I would like to report on a PJM and SW lesson held by Romuald Szurik and me as part of the Science Festival of Warsaw. The event is organized every year by all the Warsaw universities and its purpose is to share the knowledge with so called ordinary people in the street. Our Computer Linguistics Unit of the University of Warsaw prepared three lessons:
1. Silent Foreigners Among Us: The Deaf, Their History, Language(s) and Culture (by Prof. Marek Swidzinski, linguist)
2. How to "speak" Sign Langauage(s) (by Romuald Szurik and me)
3. Sign to me! Sign2Baby System (by Danuta Mikulska).

It went all good, the lecture room was full of audience and even the press recorded the lessons. And there was a funny point, as after all the lessons the professor wanted to hug me and we both fell down onto the floor! Yeah, Shane was right when he said I was never short of drama :-))).

But we are happy now as it was the first time that ordinary people learned (from us or from the press) that PJM is a true langauge and that SignWriting exists :-).

Lucy


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