For Science: What Was The First Song You Heard By Taylor Swift? Mine Was Our Song

for science: what was the first song you heard by taylor swift? mine was our song

⚠️⚠️ATTENTION⚠️⚠️ This is a serious post and I feel the need to talk about so let’s go. This is Ezra Weiz the Voice director (I think that’s the word?) of Miraculous Ladybug. He basically casts all of the lovely voices to the English cast of miraculous. I’m pretty sure everyone by now knows that everything from every script, to episode, to storyboard of season 5 has been leaked. The leaker has NOT ONLY decided to leak all of season 5 BUT HAS ALSO decided to leak all of the miraculous staff INCLUDING winny, Jeremy, Ezra AND the creator Thomas’s phone numbers and possible addresses. It’s one thing to leak a show but to completely dox a whole miraculous cast is wayyyy to far. Whether you like them or not this is NOT okay and will NEVER be justified. It’s plainly wrong. While there’s nothing that we can do it’s important that we are educated on stuff like this. Please do nothing but send love and support to everyone and let’s all hope they are safe and sound.

Proud to say I’m the one who started this whole mess. Flash forward a week and Shino is a war criminal.

a funny little thing that happened in the campaign

It's not an "abandoned" WIP, I didn't intentionally leave it in the forest to die and forget about it, it is a lost wip who wandered into the forest despite my pleas not to. I sit at the edge of the forest every day and hear it calling for help but there is nothing I can do. It is a haunting wip

I’m currently taking ASL at my school and we just talked about this the other day.

Babies develop their fine motor skills MONTHS before they start talking verbally, which makes ASL a great first language. A lot of hearing parents have started teaching their hearing infants sign language to better communicate with them before they become verbal. This is a beautiful thing, however, the unfortunate truth is that a lot of these hearing parents likely wouldn’t do the same if they had a deaf child. So many deaf babies are given hearing aids and taught how to speak English simply because it’s easier for the parents. Not all hearing parents with deaf children are like that, there are certainly some who learn sign language alongside their children, but many don’t because learning a new language requires too much effort.

These cases of nonverbal hearing babies being able to pick up ASL quicker than English is proof that it’s not nearly as difficult as some parents seem to think. Even dogs can learn sign commands rather than verbal ones. There’s no excuse for not making an effort to immerse your child in their culture and learning to communicate with them in whatever way is best for them.

Quick fun fact I learned in ASL class:

Babies can begin signing as early as a few months old. You don’t have to wait until they’re 9-12 months to start communicating verbally; the parts of the brain that process and use language develop before a baby is able to speak intelligibly with their mouth. Teaching your kid sign language early means that they can communicate effectively months ahead of schedule, when compared to peers that only speak a spoken language.

Additional fun fact: this jumpstart in language is thought to be a possible way to avoid the “Terrible Twos”; that phase of a toddler’s life is thought to be largely due to a toddler being unable to effectively communicate their needs. If a two year old has already been speaking for a year and a half, they’re far more able to communicate to you what’s wrong. Heck, they might also start reading earlier; languages with a fingerspelling component, like ASL, mean that any speaker needs to be able to spell unfamiliar words and ask about them. This can jumpstart a toddler’s ability to recognize letters as components of a word, and teach them to spell, read, and eventually write these letters to communicate.

Which, of course, lends absolutely zero credence to the theory that ASL will inherently stunt someone’s spoken language skills. If anything, sign language fluency makes acquiring any language, spoken or not, easier rather than harder.