“My first impression was that I had stumbled into the future, but as a linguist I was also instantly fascinated with Japanese and how it has a relati… - Emilio Insolera

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“My first impression was that I had stumbled into the future, but as a linguist I was also instantly fascinated with Japanese and how it has a relationship with sign language. Kanji are usually concepts or ideas and then hiragana acts as a bridge for communication It’s the same with sign language: We use fingerspelling (spelling out the alphabet with your hands) between our conceptual signs.