not good at english

Deaf American woman elisa Abenchuchan's blog that i really like..

'If you are deaf, please get it in your head that your fluency in written English does not define your intelligence. If you use "the" a bit too many times, you are not an idiot. If you say, "please congratulations my wife" instead of "congratulate", that doesn't make you any less smarter.

I've met so many people who say they don't like writing because their English "isn't so good." I've encountered so many students at the tutoring center who say they are horrible writers because teachers destroy their papers with red markings.

And so many people aren't helping, either. They say things like "She isn't that smart, she doesn't have good English." What about her ASL skills? Is English a better language, more advanced than ASL? No way. Yes, admittedly, having good English is really important because we live in a hearing world and one of the ways we communicate with hearies is written communication, but this is just a skill, not a determiner of intelligence.

If a deafie doesn't have great English, it means that he/she wasn't taught the language right, or/and didn't have enough exposure to English while growing up. That's it. I've encountered a lot of people who don't have perfect English but are really good writers because of the things they say, the way they analyze things, or their unique metaphor uses...

Its not how you say it, its WHAT you say.'

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