B: What school did you go to?
B: DU1
B: [MG]
B: FRÜHER1*
B: [MG]
B: SCHULE1A*
B: schule
B: wo
B: WO1A*
A: Before, I was/ No, not in K/
B: DU1*
A: FRÜHER1*
A: früh
A: GEBURT1A*
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: [MG]
A: $INDEX1
A: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
A: $ALPHA1:K
A: k
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
A: [MG]
A: I went to school in Istanbul.
A: ISTANBUL1*
A: $INDEX1
A: istanbul
A: ISTANBUL1*
A: AUFWACHSEN1A
A: $INDEX1
A: schule
A: SCHULE1A*
A: $INDEX1
A: I didn’t go to a boarding school, I mean, kindergarten. I didn’t go to kindergarten.
A: $GEST^
A: INTERNAT1B*
A: inter{nat}
A: KINDERGARTEN1A*
A: kin{dergarten}
A: KEIN1*
A: kein
A: KINDERGARTEN1A*
A: I immediately started school when I was seven years old.
A: ANFANG1A
A: anfang
A: sofort
A: SOFORT2B
A: STELLEN-VON-NACH1A^*
A: ALT8B
A: alt
A: $NUM-EINER1D:7d
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: I stayed until the sixth grade and then left.
A: SCHULE1A*
A: schule
A: PHASE1C^
A: [MG]
A: BIS1
A: bis
A: $NUM-EINER1D:6d*
A: s{echs}
A: KLASSE2*
A: klass
A: $NUM-EINER1D:6d
A: sechs
A: ENTLASSEN1
A: ent{lassen}
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: [MG]
A: Then I was stuck for a while, until I managed to get a job.
A: DANN1A
A: dann
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: arb{eit}
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: ARBEITEN1*
A: EINSTELLEN-ARBEIT1A
A: [MG]
A: ERFOLG1*
A: [MG]
A: That’s what I did until 1984.
A: ABLAUF1A*
A: [MG]
A: BIS1
A: bis
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
A: $NUM-EINER1A:1
A: bir
A: $NUM-EINER1D:9*
A: neu{n}
A: $NUM-EINER1D:8d*
A: ach{t}
A: $NUM-EINER1A:4
A: v{ier}
A: When getting to know Germany, I really liked it. I left Turkey and moved to Germany.
A: DEUTSCH1*
A: deutschland
A: KENNENLERNEN1*
A: kenn{enlernen}
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: [LM:ah]
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: ICH1*
A: $INDEX1
A: türkei
A: AUFGEBEN1*
A: ab
A: ICH1*
A: ||KOMMEN1
A: deutschland
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: When first coming here, everything went wrong, but things improved with time.
A: KOMMEN1*
A: komm
A: SCHIEF1
A: schief
A: ABLAUF1A
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: So you were done with Istanbul and moved here.
A: Living there/
A: leben
A: LEBEN4*
B: UMZIEHEN1*
B: [MG]
A: $INDEX2*
B: istanbul
B: ISTANBUL1
B: $INDEX1
B: FERTIG3B*
B: [MG]
B: Where in Germany did you move to?
B: KOMMEN1*
B: DEUTSCH1
B: deutsch
B: wo
B: WO1A*
A: Ahem, to Hagen.
B: BEREICH1A
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
A: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^
B: $$EXTRA-LING-MAN^
A: w{uppertal}
A: WUPPERTAL2*
A: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
A: HAGEN1B*
A: hagen
A: $ALPHA1:H-A-G-E*
B: Ah, you moved to Hagen.
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^||$$EXTRA-LING-MAN^
B: hagen
B: HAGEN1B
B: DU1
A: $INDEX1
A: That’s where I stayed for a short while.
A: kurz
A: KURZ3A*
B: DAZU1
A: $INDEX1
A: Then, someone in Wuppertal heard that I was supposedly quite good at soccer.
B: JA2
A: DANN1A
A: ERFAHREN1B*
A: erf{ahren}
A: wupper{tal}
A: WUPPERTAL2*
A: $INDEX1
A: ICH1^*
A: [LM:ah]
A: SPIELEN2*
A: sp{iel}
A: GUT1
A: gut
A: PERSON1*
A: FUSSBALL1A*
A: fussb{all}
B: Soccer?
B: FUSSBALL1A*
B: fußball fußb{all}
A: SEHR6
A: [MG]
A: Yes, soccer.
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: This person named Norf heard about it. Do you know Norf?
A: $INDEX1
A: [LM:ah]
A: ERFAHREN1B
A: erf{ahren}
A: SCHNABEL3^
A: norf
B: Yes, I know him.
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: no{rf}
A: $ALPHA1:N*
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^*
B: ||JA1A*
A: DU1
A: He told me to come to Wuppertal and said that he could help me.
B: ||KENNEN1A
B: kenn
A: $INDEX1
A: BESCHEID1A*
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: DU1*
A: [LM:ah]
A: KOMMEN-AUFFORDERN1
A: komm
A: HELFEN1
A: helf
A: I agreed and he did help me a lot.
A: okay
A: ICH2
A: OKAY1A*
A: ICH2
A: [LM:ah]
A: EINSTEIGEN1
A: $INDEX1
A: HELFEN1*
A: helf helf helf helf
A: You could just forget about Hagen. I preferred Wuppertal.
A: $INDEX1
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
A: VERGESSEN1*
A: vergess
A: $GEST-ABWINKEN1^*
A: ICH2
A: ABWEICHUNG3^*
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: [MG]
A: It went well, he helped with my application for the vocational college in Essen, for example. That worked out for me, as well.
A: ES-LÄUFT1*
A: läuft
A: HELFEN1*
A: helf
A: $INDEX1
A: beruf{s}sch{ule}
A: HANDLUNG1^*
A: SCHULE1D*
A: $INDEX1
A: SCHICKEN1
A: beruf{s}schu{le}
A: HANDLUNG1^*
A: SCHULE1D*
A: ESSEN1*
A: ess
A: $INDEX1
A: EMPFEHLEN1C*
A: empfeh{len}
A: ICH2*
A: INTERVIEW2*
A: interv{iew}
A: ICH1
A: SCHICKEN1*
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: läuft
A: KLAPPT1
A: klapp
A: DURCH1^
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: ABLAUF1B
A: [MG]
A: I then met my wife, so I had a new focus/
A: DANN1A*
A: FREUND-FEST1*
A: f{rau}
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: AUSSEN1A^*
B: Is your wife also Turkish or German?
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: EHEFRAU1
B: [MG]
A: German.
A: FREUND-FEST1*
B: AUCH1A*
B: auch
A: deutsch
A: $ALPHA1:D*
A: SEIN-IHR1*
B: TÜRKEI1*
B: türkisch
A: No, she is German.
A: deutsch
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
B: ODER1*
B: o{der}
B: DEUTSCH1
B: deutsch
A: DEUTSCH1
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^*
A: We got to know one another first.
A: KENNENLERNEN1*
A: kenn{enlernen}
A: HANDLUNG1^*
A: berufsschu{le}
A: KENNENLERNEN1*
A: Well, then my wife became pregnant, tough luck.
A: FREUND-FEST1
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: SCHWANGER1A*
A: [MG]
A: PECH3
A: pech
A: SCHWANGER1A*
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: We stayed together and at some point we moved to the Eifel.
A: BEHALTEN3
A: {be}halt
A: FREUND-FEST1
A: f{rau}
A: ABLAUF1^*
A: eifel
A: UMZIEHEN1
A: BERG1A^
A: BEREICH1A*
A: The travel connections there were so bad.
A: VERBINDUNG1*
A: verb{indung}
B: What’s that?
A: schlecht
A: SCHLECHT1*
A: BEREICH1A*
B: ||UNGEFÄHR1^*
B: ei eil
A: Eifel, E-I-F-E-L.
A: EIFEL1
A: eifel
A: $ALPHA1:E-I-F-E-L*
A: eifel
B: $ORAL^
B: eifel
B: Oh, Eifel.
B: eifel
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: ||BERG1A^*
A: Right, the Eifel, to Monschau.
A: eifel
A: EIFEL1*
B: ||$GEST-ABWINKEN1^
A: BEREICH1A*
B: Of course, I know that.
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: NAHE1B*
A: [MG]
B: ||KENNEN1A*
A: monschau
A: $INDEX-ORAL1
B: ||KLAR1B
B: klar
A: $ALPHA1:M*
A: $INDEX-ORAL1
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: [MG]
A: That’s a small village in the Eifel where our family lives.
A: ORT3*
A: ort
A: IN1*
A: in
A: eifel
A: EIFEL1*
A: BEREICH1A*
A: $INDEX1*
A: famil{ie}
A: FAMILIE1*
A: DA1*
A: $INDEX1*
A: UNTEREINANDER3*
A: But after two or three years, we didn’t feel too comfortable there anymore, so we moved back to the city.
A: JAHR1A*
A: [MG]
A: JAHR1A*
A: GEFÜHL3*
A: ZURÜCK1A*
A: zu{rück}
A: STADT2
A: stadt
A: ZURÜCK1A*
A: zu{rück}
A: And there, it just continued.
A: PHASE1B^*
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: Back at school, did you learn Turkish Sign Language, I mean, did you communicate in Turkish Sign Language?
B: DU1
B: du
B: FRÜHER1*
B: früh
B: SCHULE1A*
B: schule
B: türkisch
B: TÜRKEI1*
B: GEBÄRDEN1G*
A: Yes, we signed.
B: türkisch
A: zusamm
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: TÜRKEI1
A: GEBÄRDEN1G*
B: GEBÄRDEN1G*
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: NEIN3B^*
B: Then you came here to Germany. How did you communicate here?
B: DORTHIN-GEHEN1*
B: [MG]
A: I learned it in the deaf club, through friends, by observing the culture, and at my vocational college.
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: DEUTSCH1*
B: deut{sch}
B: wie
B: WIE-FRAGE1*
B: GEBÄRDEN1G*
A: LERNEN1*
A: lernen
B: WIE-FRAGE-VERGLEICH1
B: wie
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: verein
A: VEREIN2A*
A: $INDEX1
A: UND2A*
A: und
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: FREUND7*
A: freund
A: UND2A
A: und
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
A: KULTUR1A*
A: kult{ur}
A: BEOBACHTEN3B*
A: [MG]
A: berufsschule
A: HANDLUNG1^*
A: SCHULE1A*
A: That way, I learned quickly and became better and better.
A: $INDEX1
A: [LM:ah]
A: SCHNELL3B*
A: schnell
B: You got better quickly, yes.
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: WAHRNEHMUNG1^*
A: [LM:bam bam]
B: [MG]
B: AUFWÄRTS1^*
A: AUFWÄRTS1^*
A: [MG]
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: JA2*
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: But it is hard, though, German/
B: schwer
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: SCHWER1B
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: No, it was easy.
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
A: [MG]
B: DEUTSCH1
B: deutsch
B: I don’t think German Sign Language is that difficult, but German is quite hard.
B: GEBÄRDEN1G*
B: [MG]
A: LEICHT1*
A: leicht
B: glaub
B: GLAUBEN2B*
B: ICH1*
B: IST1^
B: nicht
A: No, I already had a feeling for it.
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
A: [MG]
B: SCHWER1B
B: schwer
A: ICH1
A: ich
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: aber
A: GEFÜHL3
A: fühl
B: SPRACHE4A*
B: spra{che}
A: That’s why it went fast.
A: GEFÜHL3
A: fühl
B: schw{er}
B: SCHWER1B
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: SCHNELL3B*
A: schnell
A: Because of the soccer, I travel a lot internationally.
A: DURCH2B*
A: durch
A: FUSSBALL1A
A: fußball
B: Right. If you have contact to people, it happens all by itself.
A: INTERNATIONAL1*
A: in{terna}tion{al}
B: $INDEX2
A: FAHREN1*
B: KONTAKT2B
B: ENTWICKELN1A*
A: I was in Greece before where I just gesticulated a lot. It’s really easy and quick.
A: ICH1*
A: griechenla{nd}
A: GRIECHENLAND1
B: SCHNELL3A
A: FAHREN1*
B: JA2
A: ACHTUNG1A^
A: und
A: UM2C^*
A: so so
A: GEFÜHL3
A: füh{l}
A: PERFEKT-IN-ETWAS-SEIN1
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: At school in Turkey, were you taught in sign language?
B: DU1
B: TÜRKEI1*
B: türk{ei}
B: SCHULE1A
B: schule
B: $INDEX1
B: IN-ENTHALTEN2*
B: UNTERRICHTEN1
B: unter{icht}
B: mit
B: MIT1A*
B: GEBÄRDEN1G*
B: Or was it mostly oral, with lip reading?
B: KOMMA1^
B: od{er}
A: No, it was very oral.
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
A: [MG]
B: NUR2B*
B: nur
B: [MG]
B: ORAL1
B: ABLESEN1
A: ORAL1
A: or{al}
A: They signed very little. Usually communication was solely spoken language.
A: GEBÄRDEN1E*
A: geb{ärde}
A: WENIG4
A: zu wen{ig}
A: MEHR1*
A: mehr
A: oral
A: ORAL1*
A: $INDEX1
A: mehr
A: Sometimes, one would miss a few things. Sometimes it went well, and sometimes it didn’t.
A: FRÜHER1*
A: früh
A: BISSCHEN1B*
A: manchmal
A: MANCHMAL1*
A: BISSCHEN1B*
A: ETWAS-NICHT-MITBEKOMMEN1*
A: [MG]
A: GUT1
A: gut
A: ETWAS-NICHT-MITBEKOMMEN1*
A: MANCHMAL1*
A: manchma{l}
A: gut
A: GUT1
A: $INDEX1
A: ZWEIFEL1*
A: [MG]
A: Comparatively, lessons in Germany are great.
A: deutschland
A: HIER1
A: DEUTSCH1*
A: GUT1
A: gu{t}
A: UNTERRICHTEN1*
A: [MG]
A: In comparison it‘s better here in Germany.
A: groß
A: GROSS3B
A: UNTERSCHIED2*
A: bess{er}
A: BESSER1
A: HIER1
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: [MG]
B: Did you find a job quickly after moving to Germany?
B: DU1
B: [MG]
B: UMZIEHEN1*
B: deutschland
B: DEUTSCH1*
B: HIER1
B: SCHNELL3A
B: schnell
B: BEKOMMEN2*
B: bekomm
B: arbeit
B: ARBEITEN1
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
A: No.
A: [MG]
B: DU1*
A: It took about two years.
A: $ORAL^
A: muss
A: JAHR1A*
A: zwei
A: That was a long time, but I then got a job.
A: LANG-ZEIT1A*
A: lang
A: DANN1B
A: BEKOMMEN3*
A: bekomm
A: ARBEITEN1*
A: arbeit
A: But at some point, it didn’t go so well anymore.
A: IMMER4A*
A: [MG]
A: GUT1*
A: gu{t}
A: [MG]
A: $INDEX1
A: ZWEIFEL1*
A: That’s why I changed jobs and started at a company that works with metal. Everything was great there.
A: ANDERS6*
A: and{ere}
A: FIRMA1B*
A: fir{ma}
A: MATERIAL1B^
A: metall
A: GUT1^
A: [MG]
A: $INDEX1*
A: But then my wife moved; that sucked.
A: EHEFRAU1*
A: frau
A: UMZIEHEN1*
A: um{ziehen}
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: [MG]
A: We moved and I had to commute. That didn’t work out.
A: UMZIEHEN1*
A: um{ziehen}
A: HIN-UND-HER1*
A: SCHIEF1
A: schief
A: That’s how it was.
A: PHASE1B^*
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
C: Asks about nice experiences at school.
A: It was quite nice because we played together.
A: schön
A: ICH1*
A: SCHÖN3*
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: SPIELEN2*
A: spiel
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: We would use a stick to push a tire in front of us.
A: SCHLÄGER1B^*
B: What did you do, play table tennis?
B: TISCHTENNIS2*
A: A tire that would then roll around on the ground.
A: REIFEN1B*
B: TISCHTENNIS1*
B: tennis
A: SCHLÄGER1B^*
A: RUND12^*
A: SCHLÄGER1B^*
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: Or one person counted down while all others had to hide.
A: $PROD*
A: RENNEN2*
A: ABHAUEN2*
A: ab ab ab ab
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: We put up money in a row and had to try to flick it over. Everything that fell, one got to keep.
A: $ORAL^
A: und
A: $PROD*
A: GELD1A*
A: geld
A: $PROD*
A: GELD1A*
A: $PROD*
A: [MG]
A: GEWINNEN1*
A: [MG]
A: BEHALTEN4
A: But only the ones that fell over, not the rest.
A: RICHTUNG1^*||$PROD*
A: NEBEN1A*
A: $INDEX1*
A: [MG]
A: $INDEX1*
A: GEWINNEN1*
A: [MG]
A: ||$INDEX1
A: ||NICHT3A
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: We played a lot of things.
A: $LIST1:5of5
A: SPIELEN2*
A: spiel
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: We played cards. We walked a bit further away and played cards.
A: KARTENSPIEL2*
A: GRUPPE1D
A: grupp{e}
A: UM-DIE-ECKE1*
A: KARTENSPIEL2*
A: [MG]
A: ||$GEST-OFF^*
A: At night when the light was already out, we would light some candles and chat.
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: ABEND2
A: abe{nd}
A: ABEND2*
A: a{bend}
A: ZÜNDEN1A^*
A: QUELLE-STRAHLEN1^*
A: GEBÄRDEN1E*
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: That was quite fun.
A: UND2A*
A: [MG]
A: SPASS1
A: spaß
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: [MG]
A: It was fun there. It’s different here.
A: $GEST-SKEPTISCH1^*
A: toll
A: $INDEX4
A: $INDEX1
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: $ORAL^
A: aber
A: HIER1
A: hier
A: ZUNEHMEN3^*
A: sehr
A: UM1D^*
A: anders
B: It’s different here.
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: ||HIER1
B: hier
A: Yes, it‘s different.
B: anders
B: UM1A^
A: HIER1*
A: hier
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: UM1D^
A: and{ers}
B: There is less solidarity. That’s less, true.
B: WENIG4*
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: wenig
B: SOLIDARISCH1A^
B: WENIG4*
B: wenig
A: It’s quite different here.
A: $ORAL^
A: anders
B: STIMMT1B
A: SEHR-VIEL2*
A: [MG]
A: HIER1
A: [MG]
A: anders
A: UM1B^
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: Everyone keeps to themself and keeps others at a distance.
A: WARTEN1C^*
A: alle
A: ABSTAND4*
A: [MG]
A: Everybody is just in front of their own computers, that’s really different.
A: computer
A: COMPUTER2*
A: ALLEIN1B*
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: [MG]
A: ALLEIN1B*
A: all{ein}
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: [MG]
A: UM1D^*
A: [MG]
C: Asks whether he went to boarding school und what it was like to be there.
A: Yes, the boarding school in Istanbul was good.
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: ja
A: istanb{ul}
A: ISTANBUL1*
A: $INDEX1
A: [MG]
A: INTERNAT1B*
A: GUT3*
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: We had fun.
A: [MG]
A: INTERNAT1B
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: SPASS1
A: spaß
A: We played a lot, girls against boys, it went against one another.
A: FRAU1A*
A: f{rau}
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: SPIELEN2*
A: spiel
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: FRAU1A*
A: fra{u}
A: $INDEX1
A: GRUPPE1C*
A: gruppe
A: GRUPPE1C*
A: gruppe
A: DISKUSSION1A*
A: disku{ssion}
A: GEGEN1^*
A: We teased the girls, they got quite agitated and after they conferred a bit, they dished out themselves.
A: ICH1*
A: [MG]
A: SAGEN1*
A: MÖGEN-NICHT1^*
A: hass
A: $INDEX1
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
A: FRAU1A*
A: [MG]
A: $PROD*
A: [MG]
A: $GEST^*
A: BASTELN1B^*
A: [MG]
A: GEGEN3A^*
A: [MG]
A: GEGEN3A^*
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: [MG]
A: And in the evenings we chatted downstairs; we watched movies, or we chatted.
A: $LIST1:3of3d*
A: [MG]
A: UNTEN1*
A: unt{en}
A: ABEND2*
A: ab{end}
A: UNTERHALTUNG2A*
A: unter{halten}
A: WIR2*
A: wir
A: GRUPPE1C
A: [MG]
A: ORT1A^*
A: SCHAUEN1*
A: GEBÄRDEN1E*
A: un{terhalten}
A: Or we just played outside, that too.
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: $LIST1:5of5
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
A: spiel
A: SPIELEN2*
A: DRAUSSEN1*
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: At night, we got to talk until eight o’clock.
A: früh{er}
A: FRÜHER1*
A: RAUM1C*
A: GEBÄRDEN1E*
A: ABEND2*
A: ab{end}
A: GEBÄRDEN1E*
A: un{terhalten}
A: BIS1
A: bis
A: acht uhr
A: $NUM-UHR1B:8d*
A: ||SCHLUSS1
A: After that, we got to watch TV until ten o’clock. That was it.
A: MASSE-PERSON-AKTIV2*
A: [MG]
A: ferns{ehen}
A: FERNSEHER1B*
A: SCHAUEN1*
A: BIS1
A: bis
A: ABEND2*
A: abend
A: $NUM-UHR1B:10*
A: zehn uhr
A: SCHLUSS1
A: schluss
A: We were sent upstairs and had to go to our rooms.
A: $GEST^*
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: MASSE-PERSON-AKTIV2*
A: INTERNAT1A*
A: intern{at}
A: ABER1*
A: aber
A: Here, in Germany, it’s different. There are groups here. That didn’t exist at our place; we were all together.
A: deutschland
A: HIER1
A: DEUTSCH1*
A: UND2A*
A: SEIN-IHR1*
A: GRUPPE1C*
A: gruppe
A: ORT1A^*
A: $INDEX1
A: MASSE-PERSON-AKTIV1
A: [MG]
A: We all watched TV together until it was over at ten o’clock.
A: MASSE-PERSON-PASSIV1
A: SCHAUEN1*
A: ZUSCHAUEN1*
A: SEHEN1*
A: FERTIG1A
A: UHR1*
A: BIS1*
A: bis
A: zehn uhr
A: $NUM-EINER1B:10
A: ||SCHLUSS1
A: Sometimes we got to stay up a bit longer, but only until the movie was finished.
A: $ORAL^
A: manchmal
A: PHASE1A^*
A: [MG]
A: $INDEX1
A: film
A: FILM1*
A: $INDEX1
A: SCHLUSS1*
A: schlu{ss}
A: Then we had to go upstairs.
A: $ORAL^
A: und
A: DANN1C*
A: dann
A: ALLE1C
A: alle
A: MUSS1*
A: muss
A: $GEST^*
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: We all went upstairs to get changed, to brush our teeth, and to organize ourselves and go to bed.
A: MASSE-PERSON-AKTIV2*
A: ANZIEHEN-OBERKÖRPER1A*
A: PUTZEN-ZÄHNE2
A: zahnp{utzen}
A: UNTEREINANDER3*
A: GEHEN2A*
A: I think that usually took until around half past ten.
A: BIS1
A: bis
A: GLAUBEN2B*
A: glaube
A: $NUM-UHR1B:10*
A: zehn uhr
A: $NUM-ZEHNER2B:3d*
A: d{reißig}
A: PHASE1A^*
A: uhr
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: Then, the supervisor came and checked on us.
A: GLAUBEN2B*
A: SEHEN1^*
A: oft
A: WIE3B*
A: wie
A: hausm{eister}
A: HAUSMEISTER1
A: HAUS1A*
A: oft
A: SEHEN1^*
A: SEHEN-AUF1*
A: SEHEN-AUF3*
A: He checked whether all of us were in bed and had turned off the lights. If you where caught with the lights on, you had to quickly switch it off.
A: SEHEN-AUF2*
A: DUNKEL2*
A: dunkel
A: HELL3*
A: [MG]
A: $INDEX1
A: $GEST^*
A: [LM:ah] [MG]
A: $INDEX1*
A: DUNKEL2*
A: a{us} [MG]
A: He carefully checked everything, first the boys‘ dormitory, then the girls‘.
A: SEHEN-AUF3*
A: UM2A*
A: um
A: SEHEN-AUF3*
A: [MG]
A: If there was a light hidden somewhere, even if it was teeny-tiny, it had to be turned off.
A: SEHEN-AUF2*||LICHT1*
A: $INDEX1*
A: KLEIN6*
A: [MG]
A: $INDEX1
A: [LM:ah]
A: ||AUS7*
A: $GEST^*
A: $INDEX1*
A: AUS7*
A: BITTE2*
A: bit{te}
A: $INDEX1*
A: At eleven o’clock, he checked again.
A: BIS1
A: bis
A: $NUM-TEEN2B:1d
A: elf
A: NOCHMAL2B
A: noch ma{l}
A: SEHEN-AUF2*
A: That was it. Afterwards, the door was locked.
A: SCHLUSS1*
A: ZU5*
A: ZU1A*
B: Locked?
B: ZU1A*
A: Yes, so that no one could run away.
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^*
A: $INDEX1*
A: [MG]
B: You couldn’t go to the bathroom anymore?
A: NEIN3B^*
B: WC1*
B: NICHT-MEHR1B*
A: It was locked.
B: But how did you go to the toilet?
B: $ORAL^
B: aber
A: ZU1A*
B: w-c
B: WC1
B: HIN-UND-HER1*
B: WIE-FRAGE-VERGLEICH1
B: wie
A: Yes, we had that, yes.
B: The room was locked?
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: zimmer
B: ZIMMER1B*
A: DA1
B: ZU1B*
A: True, I wonder how we were supposed to get to the toilet. The door was locked.
A: WC1^
A: klo
A: STIMMT1B*
A: st{i}mm
A: ICH1*
A: WUNDERN1*
A: ZU1A*
A: $ORAL^
A: [LM:ah]
A: Till eleven o’clock you could go to the toilet, that was it. The doors were locked then and needing to pee caused some trouble.
A: UHR1*
A: BIS1
A: bis
A: KLO1A*
A: klo
A: KOMMEN-AUFFORDERN1*
A: $NUM-TEEN2B:1d
A: SCHLUSS1*
A: ZU1A*
A: [MG]
A: PINKELN2
A: problem
A: I’m surprised now. I‘ve never even thought of that.
A: WUNDERN1*
A: ICH1
A: [MG]
A: MERKEN-NICHT1*
A: merk ni{cht}
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-OFF^*
A: NEIN2A
A: Yes, yes, it was locked.
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: I asked you about it, because I immediately thought of that.
B: ICH1
B: ich
A: ZU1A
A: [MG]
B: FRAGE1
B: frag
B: für mich
B: DENKEN1B*
B: ZUSAMMENHANG1A^*
B: It’s important to me to be able to use the toilet at night.
B: wicht{ig}
B: ICH1*
B: WICHTIG1
B: ICH1*
B: NACHT2*
B: na{cht}
B: MUSS1
B: muss
B: w-c
B: WC1
B: HIN-UND-HER1*
B: That’s why I asked you.
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: darum
B: DARUM1
B: ICH1*
B: FRAGE1
B: frag
A: One couldn’t sneak out to watch TV because the door was locked.
A: $INDEX1
B: DESHALB1
B: ||ICH1
B: $$EXTRA-LING-MAN^
A: HEIMLICH5A*
A: heimlich
A: RAUS3*
A: FERNSEHER1B*
A: fern{sehen}
A: [MG]
A: NEIN2A*
A: ZU1A
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: The girls’ door was locked, as well. That’s how it was.
A: ||FRAU1A
A: fra{u}
A: [MG]
A: ||$INDEX1
A: ||ZU1A*
A: SCHLUSS1*
A: [MG]
A: One could only got to toilet until eleven; that was it.
A: LAUFEN3*
A: [MG]
A: NUR2B
A: nur
A: KLO1A*
A: klo
A: BIS1
A: bis
A: $NUM-TEEN2B:1d*
A: elf
A: SCHLUSS1*
A: schluss
A: Other than that, we were free to walk around wherever, but at eleven, the doors were locked.
A: $PROD*
A: $NUM-TEEN2B:1d
A: elf
A: ZU1A*
A: [MG]
A: ||ZU1A*
A: [MG]
A: $GEST^*
A: I think until around six in the morning. Five or six, that’s when both doors were opened again.
A: BIS1
A: bis
A: GLAUBEN2B*
A: glaub
A: $NUM-UHR1D:6d
A: sechs uhr
A: ||$NUM-UHR1B:5*
A: fünf
A: $NUM-UHR1D:6d*
A: sechs
A: auf
A: DREHEN7^*
A: TÜR-AUF4B*
A: ||TÜR-AUF4B*
A: auf
A: Everyone came out of the rooms then to get cleaned up.
A: MASSE-PERSON-AKTIV4A^*
A: [MG]
A: ICH2*
A: WASCHEN-GESICHT1B*
A: w{a}sch
A: There was a huge room with rows of sinks.
A: RAUM1A*
A: $PROD*
A: ||$PROD*
A: $INDEX1*
A: WASCHEN-GESICHT1B*
A: wasch
A: ||$PROD*
A: [MG]
A: And the toilet was around the corner, behind the doors, you know? With sinks in a row.
A: WC1^
A: klo
A: UM-DIE-ECKE1*
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: KENNEN1B*
A: ||$INDEX1
A: $INDEX1
A: ||TÜR1B*
A: tür
A: $INDEX1*
A: RAUM1C*
A: $PROD*
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
C: And what about you?
B: I went to school/
B: ||EIGEN1A*
B: [MG]
B: SCHULE1A
B: schul
B: Well, first I was in kindergarten.
B: ICH1
B: FRÜHER1*
B: früher
B: kin{der}gar{ten}
B: KINDERGARTEN1A*
B: ICH1
B: FRÜHER1*
B: früh{er}
B: It was a kindergarten for deaf children.
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: [MG]
B: KINDERGARTEN1A
B: kin{der}gar{ten}
B: I went there at the age of two already, because my mom had to work.
B: UNGEFÄHR1^
B: [MG]
B: SCHON1B
B: schon
B: $NUM-EINER1A:2d
B: zwei
B: alt
B: ALT8B
B: ICH1*
B: EINTRETEN1B*
B: GRUND4A
B: gru{nd}
B: ICH1
B: m{ein}
B: MAMA3*
B: mama
B: muss arbeit
B: MUSS1*
B: ARBEITEN1
B: I have no brothers or sisters, so I was alone.
B: ICH1
B: GESCHWISTER2A
B: bruder schwester
B: KEIN3
B: kein
B: ICH1
B: allein
B: ALLEIN1B
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: No one could take care of me, so I went to the kindergarten, where everyone was deaf.
B: AUFPASSEN1A*
B: aufpass
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: ICH1
B: SCHICKEN1^*
B: kind{er}garten
B: KIND2
B: KINDERGARTEN1A*
B: SCHICKEN1^
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: I mean, we already signed.
B: $INDEX1
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: ab{er}
B: $GEST^*
B: GEBÄRDEN1C*
B: [MG]
B: People gesticulated while speaking.
B: $PROD*
B: #lalalalalal
B: $PROD*
B: ||$GEST-OFF^*
B: Of course, the signs weren’t completely neat.
B: GUT3*
B: SAUBER1
B: saub{er}
B: [MG]
B: GEBÄRDEN1C*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: NEIN1B
B: But there was a woman who was the kindergarten‘s boss.
B: ABER1*
B: KINDERGARTEN1A*
B: ABER1*
B: aber
B: kind{er}gart
B: KIND2*
B: KINDERGARTEN1A*
B: HAUPT3^
B: frau
B: FRAU3A
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: She only spoke and never signed.
B: SPRECHEN6*
B: [MG]
B: GEBÄRDEN1A*
B: [MG]
B: NEIN1A
B: [MG]
B: $INDEX1*
B: SPRECHEN6
B: [MG]
B: Whenever she spoke, her facial expressions alone made her seem really strict.
B: MUSS1A^*
B: [MG]
B: DRUCK-AUF-PERSON1^*
B: muss
B: MIMIK1*
B: mim{ik}
B: [MG]
B: MUSS1A^*
B: DRUCK-AUF-PERSON1*
B: MUSS1A^*
B: [MG]
B: I think it was once or twice a week that the school director came to practice speaking with us.
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^
B: GLAUBEN2B
B: glaub
B: $NUM-EINER1A:1d
B: ein
B: z{wei}mal
B: $NUM-EINER1A:2d
B: MAL3*
B: WOCHE2
B: woch{e}
B: schulleitung
B: SCHULE1B*
B: HAUPT3^*
B: KOMMEN1*
B: komm
B: ORAL1*
B: [MG]
B: ÜBEN1*
B: üb{e}n
B: ORAL1
B: [MG]
B: But in general, it was nice at the kindergarten.
B: WIMMELN1*
B: [MG]
B: SCHÖN1A
B: schön
B: kinder
B: KIND2*
B: WIMMELN1*
B: ||$GEST-OFF^*
B: I stayed there until I was six years old.
B: HIER-JETZT1^*
B: kindergart
B: KIND2
B: KINDERGARTEN1A*
B: GLAUBEN2B*
B: bis
B: BIS1
B: ICH1*
A: Where?
B: $NUM-EINER1D:6d
B: sechs
A: wo
A: DU1*
B: ALT8B
B: alt
A: WO1A*
A: DU1*
B: In #Name1, where I was born.
B: #name1
A: Oh, #Name1.
A: #name1
A: DU1*
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: GEBURT1B
B: Exactly, I was born in #Name1.
B: #name1
B: ||GEBURT1B
B: [MG]
B: Then/
B: DANN1A
B: dann
B: DANN1A*
B: So I was six years old when all the children started going to the same school together.
B: $NUM-EINER1D:6d
B: sechs
B: alt
B: ALT8B
B: ICH1
B: WIR1A*
B: [MG]
B: SOLIDARISCH1A^*
B: [MG]
B: KIND2*
B: kind
B: DENKEN1B
B: [MG]
B: DASSELBE2A
B: selb
B: schule [MG]
B: SCHULE1A*
B: ZUSAMMEN-GRUPPE1*
B: But not me, I was the only one to immediately go to second grade, separated from the others.
B: [MG]
B: NEIN2B*
B: ICH1*
B: TRENNEN1B*
B: ICH1
B: ALLEIN1C
B: allein
B: GLEICH1A*
B: gleich
B: $NUM-ORD1:2*
B: zweite
B: klasse
B: KLASSE8*
B: EINTRETEN1B*
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: All the others went to first grade.
B: ALLE1A*
B: alle
B: $NUM-ORD1:1d*
B: erst
B: SCHREIBEN1A^*
B: klasse
B: EINTRETEN1A*
B: klasse
B: KLASSE8*
B: SCHULE1A*
B: KLASSE8*
B: EINTRETEN1B*
B: I was the only one put into second grade; I was quite angry.
B: ICH1
B: EINZIG1*
B: einz{ige}
B: $NUM-ORD1:2*
B: zweite
B: SCHULE1A*
B: klasse
B: EINTRETEN1B*
B: ICH2*
B: WÜTEND2
B: [MG]
B: Nobody had told me, I had no idea. So of course I was a bit sad.
B: ICH2
B: KEIN7*
B: [MG]
B: BESCHEID1A*
B: LEER1
B: nichts
B: ICH1^
B: darum
B: [MG]
B: SCHÜCHTERN1A^
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: The children in second grade were older than me.
B: $NUM-ORD1:2*
B: zweite
B: klasse
B: KLASSE8*
B: $INDEX1
B: kinder
B: KIND2*
B: BEREICH1A*
B: KIND2*
B: ALT8B
B: alt
B: als
B: ALS3
B: ICH1
B: They were eight or nine.
B: $NUM-EINER1A:8d
B: acht
B: $NUM-EINER1A:9d
B: neun
B: Two students were already ten years old, whereas I was just six years old.
B: $NUM-EINER1A:1d*
B: [MG]
B: $NUM-EINER1B:2d
B: zwei
B: SCHON1B*
B: schon
B: $NUM-EINER1A:10*
B: z{ehn}
B: ALT8B
B: alt
B: ICH1
B: ich
B: sechs
B: $NUM-EINER1A:6d*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: And they were in second grade; that was weird.
B: $NUM-ORD1:2d*
B: klasse
B: KLASSE8*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
B: MERKWÜRDIG3*
B: [MG]
B: Of course, lessons were also held orally there.
B: AUCH1A
B: auch
B: UNTERRICHTEN1
B: unter{richt}
B: ORAL1*
B: [MG]
B: KLAR1A*
B: klar
B: That was so boring.
B: LANGEWEILE1*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: $GEST-ICH-WEISS-NICHT1^*
B: Oh well, everyone practiced speaking and writing.
B: $GEST-ICH-WEISS-NICHT1^*
B: ICH1^
B: dann
B: $INDEX1
B: ÜBEN1
B: üben
B: SPRECHEN6*
B: SCHREIBEN1A*
B: schreib
B: ÜBEN1
B: üben
B: I already knew how to do that though, I mean reading. I learned to read at age three.
B: ICH1
B: SCHON1B*
B: schon
B: LESEN-BUCH1E*
B: les
B: schon
B: SCHON1B*
B: LESEN-BUCH1E*
B: les
B: kann
B: KANN1*
B: ICH1
B: $NUM-EINER1A:3d*
B: drei
B: ALT8B
B: alt
B: scho{n} les
B: SCHON1B*
B: LESEN-BUCH1E*
B: kann
B: KANN1
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: That’s why I was bored.
B: ICH1*
B: ich
B: [MG]
B: ||$GEST-OFF^*
B: LANGEWEILE1
B: But again and again, I was given extra tasks.
B: $ORAL^
B: aber
B: ALLEIN1C*
B: allein
B: EXTRA1*
B: extra
B: aufgab aufgab aufgab
B: AUFGABE1B*
B: IMMER4A
B: immer immer
B: What was I supposed to do with that? I didn’t want it.
B: ICH1
B: $GEST-NM-SCHULTERZUCKEN1^
B: I wanted to be part of the group. I wanted to take part in the lesson and put up my hand whenever I knew something.
B: WÜNSCHEN1A*
B: [MG]
B: AUCH1A*
B: auch
B: ZUSAMMEN1A*
B: [MG]
B: unt{erricht}
B: UNTERRICHTEN1*
B: ICH2
B: dabei
B: DABEI1A*
B: MELDEN1*
B: WÜNSCHEN1B*
B: [MG]
B: But I was always the last one to be picked.
B: [MG]
B: ICH2*
B: NEIN2B*
B: ICH1*
B: LETZTE1A
B: letzt
B: ICH1
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: The others always got asked before me. I was forced to kick my heels in the meantime.
B: aber
B: KLASSE8*
B: ERSTENS1A
B: zuerst
B: $INDEX1
B: ZUERST1A
B: $INDEX1
B: [MG]
B: ICH1*
B: $PROD*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: That’s why I did a lot of stupid things: I chatted, disrupted the class, and teased other students.
B: DARUM1
B: darum
B: viel
B: ICH1
B: VIEL1A
B: dummheit mach
B: DUMM1
B: MACHEN1*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: GEBÄRDEN1G*
B: [MG]
B: STÖRUNG1A*
B: stör
B: UNTERDRÜCKEN1B^*
B: [MG]
B: It’s pretty clear that it was because I was bored.
B: klar
B: KLAR1B
B: ICH1*
B: GRUND4A
B: grund
B: [MG]
B: LANGEWEILE1*
B: $GEST-KEINE-AHNUNG1^
B: I think it must’ve been a year later, maybe a year and a half.
B: GLAUBEN2B
B: ich glaub
B: JAHR1B*
B: ein jahr
B: [MG] einhalb
B: ||VIELLEICHT1*
B: JAHR1B*
B: HALB6*
B: ICH1
B: The school director called me to his office. I was supposed to take my jacket and my bag.
B: schuldirektor
B: DIREKTOR2*
B: SCHULE1C*
B: DIREKTOR3B
B: ||ICH1*
B: KOMMEN-AUFFORDERN3A*
B: [MG]
B: AUF-PERSON1*
B: auf
B: [MG]
B: BITTE2*
B: JACKE1
B: TASCHE1
B: RUCKSACK1
B: [MG]
B: MITNEHMEN1*
B: muss mit
B: Why was I called there?
B: ICH2
B: warum
B: STIMMT1^*
B: ICH1
B: ||$GEST-OFF^*
B: [MG]
B: Oh well, I thought that he was going to scold me because I had been goofing around.
B: ICH1
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: glaub
B: ICH1
B: GLAUBEN2B
B: SICHER2*
B: sich
B: SCHIMPFEN1
B: [MG]
B: ICH1
B: dummheit
B: DUMM1*
B: MACHEN1*
B: But no, he went to a school for the hard of hearing with me.
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
B: ||NEIN1A*
B: [MG]
B: BEGLEITEN1D
B: [MG]
B: schw{er}hörschule
B: SCHWERHÖRIG1*
B: SCHULE1A*
B: EINTRETEN1A*
B: ||$GEST-OFF^*
B: So then, I went to a school for the hard of hearing.
B: schw{er}hör [MG]
B: SCHWERHÖRIG1*
B: EINTRETEN1A*
B: SCHULE1A*
B: ICH2*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: PROBLEM1*
B: p{roblem}
B: Well, the lessons were great.
B: ABER1*
B: ab{er}
B: UNTERRICHTEN1*
B: u{nterricht}
B: GUT3*
B: [MG]
B: But the problem was that I didn’t understand everything.
B: ABER1
B: ab{er}
B: PROBLEM1
B: problem
B: $GEST-NM^
B: [MG]
B: VERSTEHEN1*
B: verst{ehen}
B: ALLES1A
B: alles
B: [MG]
B: NEIN1A
B: ICH1
B: Because amongst the hard of hearing students there/
B: GRUND4A
B: grund
B: schwerhörig
B: SCHWERHÖRIG1*
B: $INDEX1
B: BEDEUTUNG1*
B: Well, in #Name1, it was like this:
B: $INDEX1*
B: #name1
B: SO1A*
B: so
B: Those who were deaf or severely hard of hearing went to a school for the deaf.
B: WER2
B: wer
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: hoch einst{uf}
B: HOCH4A*
B: GRAD3*
B: SCHWERHÖRIG1*
B: schw{er}hör
B: [MG]
B: EINTRETEN1B*
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: Whoever was only partially or slightly hard of hearing went to a school for a hard of hearing. There, everybody spoke.
B: WER2
B: wer
B: MITTEL2B*
B: mittel
B: LEICHT1*
B: leicht
B: SCHWERHÖRIG1*
B: schw{er}hör
B: EINTRETEN1A*
B: schw{er}hör
B: SCHWERHÖRIG1*
B: HÖREND1B*
B: $INDEX1
B: SPRECHEN6*
B: FERTIG4*
B: The teachers didn’t have any special training in teaching deaf students.
B: LEHRER1
B: lehrer
B: SPEZIAL1
B: spezial
B: BILDUNG1*
B: ausb{ildung}
B: FÜR1*
B: für
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: [MG]
B: KEIN7*
B: $INDEX1
B: They just walked around and spoke.
B: GEHEN2^*
B: all{e}
B: SPRECHEN6*
B: [MG]
B: $PROD*
B: I always had to let them know, “I don’t understand anything! It’s hard to understand you!”
B: [MG]
B: ICH1
B: $GEST-AUFMERKSAMKEIT1^*
B: ICH1
B: ich
B: VERSTEHEN1*
B: verst{eh}
B: NICHTS1B*
B: nichts
B: VERSTEHEN1*
B: verst{eh}
B: NICHT1*
B: nicht
B: My seat neighbors had it especially hard.
B: BESONDERS1A
B: [MG]
B: ARMER1
B: [MG]
B: $INDEX1
B: SITZEN2*
B: ||SITZEN2*
B: I always nudged one or the other and asked, “What did the teacher say? What did they say?“
B: ARMER1*
B: [MG]
B: ICH1^
B: warum
B: $PROD*
B: [MG]
B: was
B: WAS1B*
B: SPRECHEN1A*
B: $INDEX1
B: WAS1B*
B: ||$PROD*
B: $GEST-AUFMERKSAMKEIT1^*
B: w{as}
B: WAS1B*
B: SPRECHEN1A*
B: WAS1B*
B: $INDEX1
B: Yes, everybody spoke, that’s right.
B: WIR1A*
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: SPRECHEN6
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: ||$GEST-OFF^*
B: Even during the breaks I wasn’t able to sign with my hard of hearing classmates. So I just went over to the deaf students.
B: AUCH1A
B: auch
B: pause
B: PAUSE1
B: ICH1
B: klass{e}
B: KLASSE8
B: $INDEX1*
B: schw{er}hör
B: SCHWERHÖRIG1*
B: ICH1
B: [MG]
B: GEBÄRDEN1G*
B: ICH1
B: DORTHIN-GEHEN1*
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: [MG]
B: In the schoolyard, deaf and hard of hearing students were mingling, but the buildings were separated.
B: $ORAL^
B: auf
B: HOF2*
B: hof
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: SCHWERHÖRIG1*
B: sch{werhörig}
B: MASSE-PERSON-AKTIV1^*
B: [MG] {zu}samm
B: ABER1*
B: aber
B: HAUS1A*
B: haus
B: trenn
B: TRENNEN1A*
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: The school for the deaf on one side, that for the hard of hearing on the other.
B: ||GEHÖREN1^*
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A*
B: ||GEHÖREN1^*
B: schw{er}hör [MG]
B: SCHWERHÖRIG1*
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^*
B: BEREICH1A*
B: I was usually with the deaf students and chatted to them.
B: ICH1
B: [MG]
B: MEISTENS1A
B: meist
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: DORT1*
B: GEBÄRDEN1G
B: #lalalalala
B: Err/
B: $INDEX1
B: That was great.
B: $INDEX1
B: [MG]
B: GUT1*
B: [MG]
B: But the classes for the hard of hearing students were better than for the deaf students.
B: ||$GEST-OFF^*
B: aber
B: unt{erricht}
B: UNTERRICHTEN1*
B: ABER1^*
B: FÜR1*
B: dafür
B: UNTERRICHTEN1*
B: unter{richt}
B: schw{er}hör
B: SCHWERHÖRIG1*
B: $INDEX1
B: BESSER1*
B: besser
B: als
B: ALS3*
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: $INDEX1
B: For example, in biology class, we were discussing plants.
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: [MG]
B: beisp{iel}
B: BEISPIEL1
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
B: ICH1
B: [MG]
B: $INDEX1
B: ICH1*
B: biologie
B: BIOLOGIE2
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: PFLANZE1B
B: pflanze
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: At the school for the hard of hearing, we cut off a flower at the stem and looked at what the stalk looked like from the inside.
B: SCHWERHÖRIG1*
B: schw{er}hör
B: BEISPIEL1*
B: beisp{iel}
B: RUND-LANG3^*
B: pflanze
B: SCHNEIDEN-SCHLAGEN1^*
B: ab
B: BRECHEN1*
B: IN1*
B: was
B: WAS1B*
B: IN1*
B: We looked at the cells, the strands - I don’t remember the proper name anymore, but we were taught all that back then - in great detail.
B: RUND-LANG3^*
B: ZELLE1A*
B: zellen
B: RUND-LANG3^*
B: kamm{er} [MG]
B: NAME1A*
B: name
B: [MG]
B: SILBEN1^*
B: UNTERRICHTEN2*
B: ze{lle}
B: ZELLE1A*
B: RUND-LANG3^*
B: The deaf students learned it differently.
B: $INDEX1
B: [MG]
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: [MG]
B: ler{n}
B: LERNEN1*
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
B: ANDERS1*
B: and{ers}
B: They only learned the names for stalk, petal and blossom. That was it.
B: NUR2B
B: nur
B: STAMM2A*
B: NAME1A
B: name
B: BLATT2*
B: blatt
B: NAME1A*
B: name
B: blüte
B: BLÜTE1B*
B: ||$INDEX1*
B: NAME1A*
B: nam{e}
B: FERTIG1B*
B: [MG]
B: At the school for the hard of hearing, I had already learned how photo/
B: ICH1*
B: ich
B: SCHON1B*
B: schon
B: LERNEN1*
B: ler{n}
B: WIE-FRAGE-VERGLEICH1*
B: wie
B: FOTO1^*
B: f{otosynthese}
B: … how the sunlight affects the plant and what cycle happens inside, how the color develops.
B: WIE7A*
B: wie
B: sonnlicht
B: ||SONNE1A*
B: ||$$EXTRA-LING-MAN^
B: LICHT1*||$$EXTRA-LING-MAN^*
B: $INDEX1||$$EXTRA-LING-MAN^*
B: licht
B: LICHT1*
B: LICHT1*||BEHÄLTER5A^*
B: [MG]
B: $PROD*
B: VERLAUF1*
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: FARBE1A*
B: farbe
B: That’s called photosynthesis.
B: fotosynthese
B: FOTO1^*
B: AUFNAHME1*
B: AUFWICKELN2^*
B: It means the plant is nurtured through the light.
B: DURCH2A*
B: durch
B: LICHT1*||BEHÄLTER5A^*
B: licht
B: $INDEX1
B: KANN2B*
B: $ORAL^
B: kann
B: PFLANZE1B
B: pflanz
B: ESSEN1*
B: [MG]
B: It absorbs the water from the ground and the light from above.
B: $INDEX1
B: HOLEN1A^*
B: wasser
B: ||LICHT1*
B: licht
B: Then, there’s a particular dextrose.
B: UND5
B: und
B: DANN1A
B: [MG]
B: $ORAL^
B: dann
B: BESTIMMT1*
B: b{estimmt}
B: BESTIMMT1*
B: bestimmt
B: traubzucker
B: WEINTRAUBEN2A
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: Through that the plant can develop, by eating it or something. I was taught how exactly the plant is nourished through the dextrose.
B: KANN2B*
B: kann
B: ENTWICKELN1A*
B: entw{ickeln}
B: $INDEX1
B: ernährung
B: ESSEN1^
B: $INDEX1
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
B: WIE-FRAGE-VERGLEICH1*
B: wie
B: ERKLÄREN1*
B: erklär
B: When I told that to the deaf students, their jaws dropped.
B: ICH1
B: GEBÄRDEN1A*
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: [MG]
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A*
B: BAFF-SEIN1*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: So the hard of hearing students had the better classes!
B: SCHWERHÖRIG1*
B: sch{wer}hör
B: BESSER1
B: bess{er}
B: unter{richt}
B: UNTERRICHTEN1*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: That meant classes that were held at the school for the deaf were at a much lower standard.
B: bedeut
B: BEDEUTUNG1*
B: $INDEX1
B: gehörlos
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: SCHULE1A
B: MEHR3*
B: [MG]
B: SCHLIMM3D*
B: NIEDRIG1A*
B: UNTERRICHTEN1*
B: unt{erricht}
B: Yes, that’s how that was.
B: SO1A*||$$EXTRA-LING-MAN^
B: Hm.
B: SCHREIBEN1E^*
B: ABER1^*
B: When I was at school, I didn’t live at a boarding school.
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN3^
B: DORT1*
B: ICH1
B: ich
B: schule
B: SCHULE1A
B: ICH1
B: INTERNAT1A
B: internat
B: UNGEFÄHR1^*
B: [MG]
B: I was rather/
B: ICH1
B: ich
B: MEHR1
B: mehr
B: Well, I did go to a boarding school, yes.
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: DA1*
B: i{nternat}
B: ICH1*
B: ich
B: [MG]
B: SITZEN1A^*
B: BESUCHEN1A*
B: INTERNAT1A*
B: internat
B: JA1A*
B: ja
B: But I didn’t spend the night there. I lived nearby.
B: aber
B: ABER1*
B: ICH1*
B: schlaf
B: SCHLAFEN1B
B: $INDEX1
B: NEIN1A
B: ICH1
B: wohn
B: WOHNUNG1B*
B: NAHE1B*
B: ||$GEST-OFF^
B: But what was I supposed to do Monday night?
B: $ORAL^
B: aber
B: mon{t}agabend
B: MONTAG11*
B: ABEND2*
B: ICH2*
B: was mach
B: MACHEN1*
B: ICH2*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: What did I do? I went to the boarding school.
B: was mach
B: MACHEN1*
B: ICH2*
B: ICH1*
B: internat
B: EINTRETEN1A^*
B: INTERNAT1A*
B: $INDEX1*
B: There were nuns.
B: SEIN-IHR1
B: [MG]
B: nonnen
B: BETEN1B^
B: SEIN-IHR1
B: I was able to chat there for as long as I wanted until my mother picked me up in the evening.
B: ICH1
B: [MG]
B: OFT1A*
B: oft
B: GEBÄRDEN1G*
B: #lalalalala
B: BIS1
B: bis
B: ABEND2
B: ab{end}
B: MAMA3*
B: mama
B: ABHOLEN1*
B: ab{holen}
B: Or I just walked home by myself. It was really close, just 200 meters maybe.
B: ODER1*
B: oder
B: allein
B: ALLEIN2*
B: NACH-HAUSE1*
B: NAHE1B*
B: [MG] n{ah}
B: $NUM-HUNDERTER1:2d
B: zw{ei}hund{ert}
B: meter
B: METER1*
B: HIN-UND-HER1^*
B: $$EXTRA-LING-MAN^
B: That’s why I often went there to chat.
B: $$EXTRA-LING-MAN^*
B: ICH1||$$EXTRA-LING-MAN^*
B: DORT1*||$$EXTRA-LING-MAN^*
B: [MG]
B: GEBÄRDEN1G
B: [MG]
B: viel
B: VIEL1A
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A
B: That way, I had a lot of deaf contacts early on. That was nice.
B: schon
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: SCHON1B*
B: FRÜH2
B: früh
B: KONTAKT2B
B: kontakt
B: TAUB-GEHÖRLOS1A*
B: [MG]
B: SCHÖN1A*
B: sch{ön}
B: ||$GEST-OFF^*
B: It was nice because I was just able to talk using my hands. I understood everything.
B: GRUND4A
B: grund
B: GEBÄRDEN1G*
B: KANN1*
B: ERFOLG1*
B: kann
B: KANN2B*
B: GEBÄRDEN1G*
B: UM6^
B: HAND2*
B: VERSTEHEN1
B: verst{ehen}
B: But/
B: aber
B: ABER1*
B: $GEST-ÜBERLEGEN1^*
B: During the weekends, I was around hearing people a lot.
B: wochenende
B: WOCHENENDE6*
B: ICH1
B: OFT1B
B: oft
B: MIT1A*
B: mit
B: hörend
B: HÖREND1A*
B: WEG-ENTFERNEN2^*
B: They didn’t know how to sign, but I was able to lip read well enough.
B: GEBÄRDEN1G*
B: [MG]
B: VERSTEHEN1*
B: verst{ehen}
B: ABER1
B: aber
B: [MG]
B: SPRECHEN1A*
B: ABLESEN1
B: ||$GEST-OFF^*
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFWIPPEN1^
B: [MG]
B: Whether that was good or not, no clue, it really depended on the other children.
B: UNGEFÄHR2^*
B: [MG]
B: VIEL1B*
B: v{iel} [MG]
B: ||$GEST-OFF^*
B: [MG]
B: MEHR3*
B: [MG]
B: gut [MG]
B: GUT3
B: GUT-ODER-SCHLECHT1
B: ABHÄNGIG3*
B: kinder
B: KIND2*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: With some of them I got along well, others not so much. It differed.
B: [MG]
B: SICH-VERSTEHEN1*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: VERSCHIEDEN1
B: [MG]
B: ||$GEST-OFF^*
B: [MG]
B: I internalized both [ways of communication] through those situations.
B: beides
B: BEIDE2A*
B: ÜBERNEHMEN1*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: schon
B: SCHON1B*
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: NEHMEN1A^*
B: ||SO1A*
B: [MG]
B: ||$GEST-OFF^*
B: $GEST-NM-SCHULTERZUCKEN1^
B: [MG]
C: Asks how she experienced her first day at school, since she skipped a grade.
B: No, I did have a Schultüte [lit. school cone; a large cardboard cone filled with sweets and little gifts, given to first graders on their first day of school].
B: doch
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: EINSCHULEN1*
B: On my first day of school, I had a Schultüte.
B: einschul
B: SCHREIBEN1A^
B: EINTRETEN1B^
B: EINSCHULEN1*
B: [MG]
B: Just like all the others.
B: alle
B: KLASSE8*
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: Then, the principal picked me up and brought me to the second grade classroom.
B: DANN1A
B: dann
B: schulleitung
B: SCHULE1B*
B: HAUPT3^
B: ABHOLEN1*
B: hol
B: zweite
B: $NUM-ORD1:2*
B: EINTRETEN1A*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: klasse
B: I went there by myself with my school cone.
B: EINSCHULEN1^*
B: [MG]
B: allein [MG]
B: ALLEIN1C
B: ICH2
B: EINSCHULEN1^*
B: The other children stayed behind.
B: ander
B: ANDERS2*
B: $INDEX1
B: EINSCHULEN1^*
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: [MG]
B: ||$GEST-NM-SCHULTERZUCKEN1^
B: [MG]
B: But I was a bit hurt.
B: $ORAL^
B: aber
B: BISSCHEN1B*
B: biss{chen}
B: [MG]
B: BETROFFEN2^
B: ICH1
B: Because we had gotten along so well. That’s why.
B: ||WARUM10A*
B: w{a}rum
B: DENKEN1A
B: denk
B: WIR1A*
B: GUT1*
B: gut
B: versteh
B: VERSTEHEN1*
B: WIR1A*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: DARUM1*
B: {da}rum
B: I’m still in contact today with the people I went to kindergarten and first grade with.
B: ICH2
B: ich
B: trotz{dem}
B: TROTZDEM2A*
B: $INDEX1
B: ALLE2C^*
B: bis
B: HEUTE2*
B: heute
B: $NUM-ORD1:1d
B: erst
B: KLASSE8*
B: klass
B: KINDERGARTEN1A
B: kind{ergarten}
B: noch
B: ICH1*
B: NOCH4A*
B: KONTAKT2B
B: konta{kt}
B: We’re still in contact, even though most of them still live in #Name1 and I moved around.
B: HEUTE1*
B: heu{te}
B: NOCH4A*
B: noch
B: KONTAKT2B
B: kontakt
B: OBWOHL1
B: ob{wohl}
B: WOHNUNG5
B: wohn
B: #name1
B: $INDEX1
B: ICH1*
B: ich scho{n}
B: SPRINGEN2^*
B: [MG]
B: I was in Hamburg, in Essen, moved around everywhere.
B: HAMBURG2*
B: hambburg
B: ESSEN-STADT1*
B: essen
B: $INDEX1
B: [MG]
B: But we’re still in contact, because we know each other so well.
B: TROTZDEM2A*
B: tro{tzde}m
B: NOCH4A*
B: noch
B: kontakt
B: KONTAKT2B*
B: ICH1*
B: ALLE2A*
B: alle
B: KENNEN1A
B: kenn
B: SO1A*
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: Typical.
A: TYPISCH1*
A: ty{pisch}
B: Right, that’s how it’s been since I was two years old.
B: NOCH4B
B: noch
B: AUFWACHSEN1A*
B: [MG]
B: $NUM-EINER1A:2d*
B: zwei jahr
B: alt
B: ALT8B
B: ICH1
B: BIS-HEUTE1B*
B: bis
B: I‘ve known one person/
B: ein
B: $NUM-EINER1A:1d*
B: PERSON1*
B: KENNEN1B*
B: kenn
B: I’m now 46 years old and have known that person for 44 years.
B: ICH1*
B: ich
B: JETZT2*
B: jetzt
B: ICH1
B: ich
B: sechsundvierz
B: $NUM-EINER1A:6d
B: $NUM-ZEHNER2A:4*
B: ICH1*
B: kenn
B: KENNEN1A*
B: AUF-PERSON1*
B: $NUM-DOPPEL1A:4
B: vieru{nd}vierz
B: jahre
B: JAHR4A*
B: BIS-HEUTE1B*
B: That’s how long we’ve been friends for.
B: FREUND3*
B: $INDEX1
B: However, our jobs are very different.
B: BERUF1B
B: beruf
B: BERUF1B*
B: $INDEX1
B: ICH1*
B: WIDERSPRUCH1B*
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: We’re near and dear to one another.
B: $ORAL^
B: aber
B: [MG]
B: HERZ1B^*
B: Well, what can I say?
B: TROTZDEM2A*
B: $GEST^*
B: WAS1A^*
B: $GEST^*
B: We just know each other.
B: kenn
B: KENNEN1A*
B: BEIDE2B*
B: $GEST-OFF^*
B: She works at a laundry shop. I‘m a lecturer.
B: $INDEX1
B: ARBEITEN1*
B: arbei{t}
B: WASCHEN1A*
B: w{a}sch
B: LASSEN1^*
B: ICH1
B: ARBEITEN1*
B: arbei{t}
B: UNTERRICHTEN1*
B: That’s something completely different.
B: $GEST-OFF^
B: WIDERSPRUCH1B*
B: [MG]
B: But we get along so well. It’s amazing!
B: $ORAL^
B: aber
A: You’re great together.
A: $GEST-OFF^
A: [MG]
B: SICH-VERSTEHEN1*
B: BEIDE2B*
A: GEBÄRDEN1A*
B: SYMPATHISCH1^*
B: [MG]
A: GUT4^*
A: [MG]
A: $GEST-OFF^
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: Yes.
A: Sure, work and the job don’t matter.
B: A feeling of warmth is important to me.
B: HERZ2A
B: herz
A: KLAR1B
A: klar
B: ICH1*
A: ARBEITEN1*
A: arb{eit}
B: wichtig
B: WICHTIG1*
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: BERUF1A*
A: beruf
B: No, that’s not important.
B: [MG]
A: BEISEITE1B*
A: [MG]
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFSCHÜTTELN1^
B: ||WEG-ENTFERNEN1B
A: If one likes a person, that’s great, period.
A: $ORAL^
A: aber
B: It’s what’s on the inside that counts, exactly!
B: [MG]
B: HERZ2A
A: MENSCH2*
A: mensch
A: HERZ1C^*
A: [MG]
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
A: GUT4^*
A: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^
B: GUT3
B: [MG]
B: $GEST-NM-KOPFNICKEN1^