Are the differences between American Sign Language and Spanish or Mexican Sign Language as significant as…?

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1. virtuosanina says:

   November 22, 2009 at 6:35 pm

   Yes! Sign Languages have unique hands signs as well as unique sentence structures just like spoken English and spoken Spanish have different vocabularies and sentence arrangements.

   It’s pretty hard to compare spoken and signed languages though. A Spanish speaker can learn English and communicate decently in both America and Britain regardless of the variations in dialect. Someone who learns American Sign Language, however, would have troubled signing to someone who knew British Sign Language. In fact, there are so many varieties of American Sign Language that someone from California could find it difficult to sign with someone from Pennsylvania!
2. Sendero Rojo says:

   November 22, 2009 at 6:35 pm

   yes, but not that much, depending on the music style.

   if you mean rock there’s not so much diference.

   but I think that styles like salsa, merengue or rancheras can’t match with english, defenetly.