ASL is broken down into many different grammatical parameters.

美国手语系统（ASL） 被分散成不同的语法单元。

Today, many indigenous deaf Americans use ASL.

今天，许多美国土著聋人使用美国手语。

Hearing children are also in desperate need for ASL educational materials.

聋哑和重听儿童也迫切需要ASL教材。

I work with many different ASL interpreters.

我与很多美国手语翻译人员工作在一起。

In ASL, you'd have to spell out tribe names.

在美国手语里，你得拼出部落的名字。

This is a sign for " staff" in ASL.

在美国手语中，这是“五线谱”的意思。

" What if I was to look at ASL through a musical lens? "

如果我从音乐的角度 看待美国手语系统会是怎样的呢？

And the same holds true for a concept in ASL.

对于美国手语系统来说也是这样的。

And I was surprised to see the similarities between music and ASL.

我很惊讶的发现音乐与手语的相似性。

So it's amazing to see how ASL is alive and thriving, just like music is.

所以美国手语的发展和壮大真的很令人惊讶，就像音乐一样。

And just because ASL has no sound to it, it automatically holds no social currency.

因为美国手语并没有融合声音元素在其中，自然而然造成了它没有得到社会认可。

But many of ASL's signs are rooted in a cultural experience that isn't theirs.

但许多美国手语的标志根植于一种文化体验，而不是他们的文化体验。

That's why Melanie and other Deaf native people are beginning to use a mix of PISL and ASL.

这就是为什么梅勒妮和其他聋人开始混合使用国际手语和美国手语的原因。

Even though ASL has an extensive vocabulary, there's one big thing it doesn't have signs for: names of tribes.

尽管美国手语词汇量很大，但有一件事却没有手语表示：部落的名字。

Researchers believe another form of Hand Talk, Northeast Indian Sign Language, was one of the contributors to ASL.

研究人员认为，另一种形式的手势语言——东北印度手语——是美国手语的形成原因之一。

She's interpreted concerts in ASL for literally every artist view you could think of.

她用美国手语诠释音乐会，从字面上理解您能想到的所有艺术家观点。

Amber is a part of a growing number of ASL interpreters that work to translate a hearing centric music world into a visual one.

Amber 是越来越多的 ASL 口译员中的一员，这些口译员致力于将以听觉为中心的音乐世界转化为视觉世界。

ASL, American Sign Language is fairly new it was only technically like really approved in the early 1960s saying yes it's an official language.

ASL，美国手语是相当新的，它在技术上只是在 1960 年代初期才真正获得批准，说是的，它是一种官方语言。

From my own opinion, the study of the attempts to try to teach chimpanzees, or gibbons, or gorillas, a human language like ASL are misguided.

在我看来，尝试向黑猩猩、长臂猿或大猩猩教授美国手语等人类语言的研究是错误的。

I think too many people, especially in health care, health care professionals, really completely misunderstand how important visual language is for brain development, how important and equivalent ASL is to English.

我认为太多的人， 尤其是医疗保健人员，医疗保健专业人员， 真的完全误解了视觉语言对大脑发育的重要性，ASL 与英语的重要性和等同性。