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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"} to go. I flew here to New York, changed planes,

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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"} and flew to Miami, Florida.
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"} I had all these suitcases with me, and I didn't know English at all.
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"} I didn't know ASL, I had a really hard time.
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
Here I am with my bags, and I'm looking at the street signs, trying to find on this card...
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
or in the dictionary, French translated to English.


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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
And so I met some deaf people, but I couldn't understand their sign language.
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
And slowly I learned and improved. Deaf people would meet me and they gave me a book of sign language.
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
I said "thank you". I got another book, and then another book.
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
I stayed in my room and I studied and learned and practiced the signs at night.
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
I practiced the signs and I slowly improved and
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
travelling throughout America I learned more and improved and now I'm doing much better.


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[[Audience applauds]]

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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
It was very hard.
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
One more question?
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[[Woman in audience]] I'd like to know if, uh, Switzerland has captioned films.
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
I'd like to know if Switzerland has captioned films
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
"I didn't understand the question." Okay, I'll explain it to you.

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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
In Switzerland, the movies, are they captioned like in America?

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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
Oh, America's better. In Switzerland, the captions are fair...
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
They're white and your eyes get very tired. Here in American, the captions

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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
have a black background, or
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
dark background. They're much easier to read.
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
Switzerland they're fair. America, they're much better.
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
Switzerland... they have to improve and change, and improve.
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
I'm going to go back to Switzerland and try to help.
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[[Audience applauds]]

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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
Thank you
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Schultz (interpreter)"}
More questions?