Basic Sign Language (Libras) Course in Brazil

Wed Sep 11 17:28:48 UTC 2013

SignWriting List
September 11, 2013

Hello Ernandes and SignWriters in Brazil...
Many thanks for this introduction. We are happy to meet you!

Thank you for the attached photo of your group. All of your friends are welcome to join the SignWriting List too...

To Join SignWriting List
http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1

SignWriting has been used with other Jehovah Witness groups in Honduras and Peru. If you are interested in information about their use of SignWriting, ask here on the List and I am sure we can provide you contacts and information. Of course the sign languages are different in each country, so that is a bit of a problem ;-)

And I am delighted to know that you are interested in learning SignWriting, not only at UFSC, but also using Dr. Fernando Capovilla's DEIT LIBRAS books, from the University of Sao Paulo - 

Novo Deit Libras
http://www.signwriting.org/brazil/NovoDeitLibras.html

as you know we have a web page about Brazil and SignWriting:

SignWriting in Brazil
http://www.signwriting.org/brazil

Thank you to everyone in Brazil, for your charming and joyous messages to me on Facebook and all of your expression of love and appreciation - it is really a blessing to realize that SignWriting is used in Brazil…

The web page I mention above is out of date because there are many new developments for SignWriting in Brazil, and one of them is a new web site by Madson and Raquel Barreto - perhaps you know about this? They have courses in SignWriting online if you are interested, while you are waiting to attend UFSC:

Libras Escrita Web Site
http://www.librasescrita.com.br/

I plan to write an article about the http://www.librasescrita.com.br/ site but I haven't yet, so please visit them and then you are welcome to write here on the SignWriting List with questions…

And you can start writing your own LIBRAS signs and literature on the web:

SignPuddle for Brazil
http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=12&sgn=46

We also have some Bible writing in LIBRAS:
http://www.signwriting.org/library/bible/LIBRAS.html

My best wishes to everyone in Brazil - Ronice, Marianne, Fernando, Madson and Raquel, Antonio Carlos, and all friends … how are you all? It would be great to hear from you -

Val ;-)

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On Sep 11, 2013, at 9:11 AM, Falando Libras <falando.libras at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Please, ignore earlier email, ok? 
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> Manaus/AM, 11 de setembro de 2013.
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> Dear Valerie Sutton,
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> To begin, congratulations for the excelence of your international work in signwriting! Please, forgive me for any English mistakes, for I am not fluent in that language. I am not deaf but I love to be in touch with them. I am 46 years old. I am married to my special Ana. I was born in Fortaleza, Ceará but I have lived in Manaus since 1989. To be honest, I have just begun to learn Brazilian Sing Language, named here in Brazil as “Libras” or “LSB”. What are my reasons? Firstly, as a Jehovah’s Witness, I and and my wife take part in a global voluntary educational job, present in more than 230 lands around the world by more than 7 millions of us. In Brazil there are many Jehovah’s Witnesses Congregations aimed at deaf people; in Manaus, capital of the State of Amazonas, we have four Congregations in which all participants “speak” Libras in consideration of deaf and their necessities. Is there other reason?
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> Yes, there is! For the first time in our Brazilian Post and Telegraph Company's branch (ECT – Correios – DR Amazonas), here in Manaus, we have a Young Learner called Maria de Fátima, a young deaf who will work by my side for a year. I want to help her to enjoy as much as possible this period of her first professional experience. I want to take my part in contribute to her social and professional integration, mainly because I know that our society does not give deaf the support they need and deserve.
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> I began a Basic Libras Course in a University downtown in Manaus. To improve my Libras learning I  have invested in some video material purchase. I study at home in my weekends. Additionaly, I started myself applying a Basic Libras Course and I invited at least 15 other co-workers of my Correios Human Resource sector (see photo) to participate. I would like so much to acquire new DEIT collection by Fernando Capovilla but I can’t afford this purchase for while. This collection is wonderful and it contains SignWriting as well! As soon as possible I intend to learn SignWriting and, in the second semester of 1915, to start my Licenciatura em Letras/Libras (Distance Learning method - EAD) in UFSC, a University pioneer in bilingual education in Brazil, for I aim to became a Libras Interpreter/Translator.
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> Thanksfully,
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> Ernandes Barroso Lourenço – 80531083
> Performance Management Supervisor - PRT/AM-670/2006
> Corporative Education Section/SECO/GEREC/DR/AM
> falando.libras at hotmail.com
> Phone/Fax: 55 (92)3621-8422;
> Mobile: 55 (92) 9221-8825 or 8250-1042
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> De: SignWriting List: Read and Write Sign Languages [mailto:SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU] Em nome de Valerie Sutton
> Enviada em: terça-feira, 10 de setembro de 2013 17:05
> Para: SW-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU
> Assunto: Curso Basico de Libras in Brazil
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> SignWriting List
> September 10, 2013
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> Hello Ernandes Barroso Lourenço from Brazil!
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> Welcome to the SignWriting List. I believe you are a new member?
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> I just noticed our List has over 250 members - I thought we had 200 - the List has expanded quickly in the past few months...
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> Your logo  is so amazing - I just want you to know how much I enjoyed looking at it - it is so creative and different!!
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> Do you use SignWriting in your Basic Libras Course in Brazil?
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> Tell us a little about your work in Brazil…
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> Val ;-)
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