A third day of the NZSL (New Zealand Sign Language) Week in New Zealand.
I made the Deaf Vlog for the Facebook group – Deaf Vlog (NZ, Australia and UK) this morning. One Deaf mother with a hearing son from Australia, replied to my vlog and the message was ‘how quiet is at my place without any sounds, BUT to see the autumn leaves lying on the ground? A very quiet sound of the wind blowing in the trees.’
Pan flute – The Sound of Silence
Here are a couple of links to YouTube with the captioning for the Deaf people or Hard of Hearing people.
The sound of Silence with captioning – Lords of the Ring
Dana Winner – The Sound of Silence
I turned the sound off when I was doing the video, and I signed a small message about our NZSL Week to Australia, the UK including Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Republic of Ireland and New Zealand in sign language.
The boy’s message made me realised and his ‘experienced on silent’ was living with his Deaf family. The experienced on silent makes no difference to me because I grew up in two worlds – in the Deaf community and in the hearing community.
Looking at the people speaking with their voice everywhere – buildings, car park, rock concert, home, workplace and the parks. Imagine if there was a loud noisy area and people cannot hear each other when speaking. Yep, it would be very difficult for them.
check out the sound in Paris cafe and traffic noise in Paris
For us, many Deaf people communicate in sign language easily – no matter where we are in the places, farm, noisy place. We communicate in sign language through the window, high-rise floor, across the road or across the large ‘crowding’ room. We did not have any problem with communicating than using voice by shouting out or yelling out to other people.
Recently I watched the movie and it called “The Quiet Place” last month.
In John Krasinski’s brilliantly suspenseful thriller, a family must remain silent at all times to avoid the giant predators roaming their post-apocalyptic world. The Guardian Paper Review
I noticed a number of audiences in the same room as me and they were trying to work out the storylines until the end of the movie. A couple who sat near me, they were asking me about the movie and I told them that I am deaf. They were astonished at me. Of course, we have several discussions over cuppa afterwards and they did not know about sign language as they knew very little about Deaf people. Who pays for the cuppa? They paid for me in return of thank you for the information about sign language and Deaf people.
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