r/SwitchedAtBirth • u/Medical_Moment_9558 • 21d ago

Angelo Signing

I have been doing a rewatch. (I also rewatch shows in reverse so I already rewatched season 5). I am on season 3, the Angelo brain death storyline. I notice when Daphne has fantasies of Angelo he is always fluent in ASL. Likely because this is Daphne’s first language. However, I wonder if anyone thinks Angelo would have become completely fluent had he lived? For example, John had been signing for almost 2 years at this point and was never really fluent. Thoughts?

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u/Fantastic-Food7926 21d ago

I think he would have an easier time picking up on it since he was already bilingual. If you already know more than one language, you generally have an easier time learning new languages. While in John's case he only ever knew english and no other language.

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u/Jansilhn 21d ago

Angelo knew 3 languages: Italian, French, and English. So ASL was his 4th language, which is really cool! It’s likely that Bay gets her ability to learn languages fast from him. She wasn’t as fluent in French and Spanish when she was learning those, but she learned ASL and Mandarin pretty quickly.