<p>psych_ didn’t mean to insult you or anything. My niece took one year of ASL at a community college and loved it for all the reasons I stated. Spelling a known word in English is much easier than in another language and the speed with which you need speak and read fingerspelling is not so fast in the beginning. I guess it does depend on how your brain works and how you learn as to whether you think ASL is easier.</p>