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If I could only learn one additional language, and I wanted to travel the world, what language would serve me best other than English or Spanish?

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How many different standards are there for sign?

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 month ago

Basically every country has their own sign language or an imported sign language that became standardized.

But learning any sign language will make it a lot easier for you to communicate with signers of any sign language. Not because they’re necessarily similar to each other, but because sign language varies a lot regionally anyway (and even locally depending on what method of signing you’re taught) and it will be much more natural to find ways to work around it and communicate with each other.