❶Point your index finger toward the person you want to talk to. (This means “you.”) ❷Point your index fingers on each hand toward each other and rotate. (This means “sign language.”) ❸Tilt your head to the left side, hold your right-hand fingers (except the thumb) straight and together and move your hand from your left shoulder to your right shoulder. (Tilting the head indicates a question meaning “Okay?”)❶Make a face of regret and make a pinching motion near your cheek with two fingers of your right hand. (This means “I can’t do that.”) ❷Raise your right hand with the palm facing the other person, then flip your hand so the palm faces you. (This means but—negating whatever is being said.) ❸Move the index finger of your right hand as if you were scrolling on a smartphone screen. (This means “smartphone.”)❹Presenting a confident countenance, hold your right-hand fingers (except the thumb) straight and together. Move your hand from your left shoulder to right one. (This means “I can do it.”)You can watch YUMIE’s sign language lessons on the official Rionet Hearing Aid channel (@RIONETofficial) on YouTube.Interview and article by Miyuki TakahashiIllustration by Natsuko MaedaMake a surprised face. Hold your right hand in front of your face with the palm facing towards you, then quickly lower your hand. (This means “I didn’t know that.”)Point the thumb and index finger on your right hand up, placing the thumb on your chin, then lower your index finger. (This means “I understand.”)In this series, YUMIE, a deaf athlete serving as an ambassador for RIONET hearing aids, will give us lessons in sign language. In Lesson 3, she will give us a lesson on the sign language used to initiate a conversation with a deaf person. The next time you meet a deaf person, give it a try!YUMIEAt age two, Yumie lost most of her hearing in both ears due to sensorineural hearing loss. At the age of three, she began using Rionet hearing aids. She took up bodyboarding when she was 18, became a professional at the age of 28, and continued until retiring in 2007. Currently, as the representative of the general incorporated association, Aketara Umi-e (Akeumi), she is working to normalize deafness (to achieve a society that does not discriminate between the hear-ing impaired and non-hearing impaired). She is an ambas-sador for Rionet hearing aids.Lesson 3Lesson 3One Point LessonOne Point Lesson❶❷❸❶❷❸❹adult, said to have a vocabulary of 30,000 to 50,000 words, you can see how small the vocabulary of sign language is. In sign language, one expression often represents multiple phrases. If you put in a little bit effort, you’ll soon be able to talk about many different things. I encourage you to give it a try if you’re interested. Even if you aren’t able to learn sign language perfectly, if you can memorize the sign for “Please use your smartphone to Do you understand sign language?No, I can’t. But I can use a smartphone to talk.Sign language has only 5,000 words and is easy to masterI can “read” what a person is saying based on the movements of their mouth (lip reading). So, I didn’t actu-ally begin learning sign language for a while. Still, I was often disappointed when a deaf person mistook me for a hearing person. That’s why I took the time to learn sign language during the pandemic. The typical vocabulary you can assume for sign language is around 4,000 to 5,000 words. Com-pared to a typical Japanese-speaking Oh.I see.19talk,” introduced in this article, you’ll be able to hold a conversation with a deaf person using a notepad applica-tion on your smartphone. Note that, due to the limited vocabulary of sign language, deaf people tend not to like euphemisms. Make sure to express your intentions clearly—for example, you like or dislike and you’ll go or won’t go.* The sign gestures introduced here are the ones used in Japan.YUMIELet’s Chat! RION'sSIGN LANGUAGESIGN LANGUAGECOURSECOURSE
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