It’s been a while since I last wrote about sign language, but some interesting YouTube videos by Alice (胡晓姝) recently pulled me back into it. Below is the video that I found most fascinating. It’s subtitled in Chinese, but worth a watc... ...full story at Sinosplice
from Sinosplice on Tue, Apr 22 2008
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