Celebrate NZSL Week
NZSL - My Place, My Language from Eureka, Waikato
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This week we, Deaf people celebrate our unqiue 'NZSL' - New Zealand sign language becasue it is our first language than English or Maaori Language. In this video, I, Jean is in Eureka which it is my place in the rural area of Waikato. My second language is NZSL but I was born deaf. Note: there is no voice sound, only the traffic noise. Transcript from the video.
Hello my name is Jean and fingerspell J E A N. My old NZSL as a pair of 'jeans'. Where am I? I am in Eureka and showed your my sign of Eureka as in the meaning of discovering our rural local when a group of men found a place for the headquarter here after the Maaori Wars in Waikato. My place, here and there as in the rural area. What happening this week? Deaf people in the Deaf community celebrate our NZSL this week. Come and learn our NZSL so we can communicate each other. Thank you.
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