 
 <prompt> text: ```Read di tori and ansa di kweshons.

American sign language get one kain history wey dey interesting. Even though deaf pipo don dey for America, di history really start for 1817. Before 1817, deaf pipo dey communicate by using "home signs". Gestures dey wey dem dey create individually and use for house for simple communication. Dem no get schools or formal sign language training for di deaf.

So, why 1817 na important date? Well, di tori start with Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Gallaudet meet im neighbor pikin Alice Cogswell. Alice na di young deaf pikin of Dr. Mason Cogswell from Hartford, Connecticut. Gallaudet start to teach Alice how to read and write small small words. As Dr. Cogswell see say e dey work, e encourage Gallaudet to start school for di deaf. Cogswell raise di money and Gallaudet travel go Britain to learn di methods wey dem dey use there. But, di schools no gree share their instructional techniques and methods.

As Gallaudet dey for London, one demonstration of di French method of deaf education happen. Britain dey use oral method of instruction; but di French method dey use signs. Gallaudet dey fascinated with di method and e meet di instructor, Sicard, and im two deaf pupils, Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc. Sicard gree to teach Gallaudet im method and Gallaudet go Paris to learn French signs. After some time, Gallaudet wan return house and e convince Clerc to follow am and help am start di school. Di journey back house na 52-day voyage during which Clerc teach Gallaudet French signs and Gallaudet teach Clerc English.

On April 15, 1817, Laurent Clerc and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet start wetin we dey call di American School for the Deaf for Hartford, Connecticut. Di opening of di first school for di deaf fit be seen as one of di most important events for current deaf culture.

1. When sign language start?
2. How deaf pipo dey communicate before dat?
3. Wetin dem dey use exactly?
4. Why dem no fit just go learn am for class?
5. Who be Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet?
6. E successful?
7. Wetin e do after dat?
8. Wetin happen while e dey there?
9. Which method Britain dey use?
10. Wetin different for di French method?
11. Wetin e think about am?
12. Who e meet there?
13. Anybody else dey?
14. Who?
15. Dem be instructors too?
16. Who dem be?
17. E fit learn their method?
18. Where?
19. E go back America after dat?
20. How long e take?
21. E start school?
22. When?
23. Where?

Numbered answers:``` <response>: ```1. 1817
2. by using "home signs"
3. Gestures dey create and dey use inside each house.
4. Dem no get schools or formal training
5. E meet him neighbor daughter Alice and teach am how to read and write.
6. Yes
7. E travel go Britain to learn their methods but dem no gree share.
8. Dem do demonstration of the French method
9. Oral method
10. Dem dey use signs.
11. E dey fascinated.
12. The instructor Sicard
13. Yes
14. Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc
15. No
16. him two deaf pupils
17. Yes
18. Paris
19. Yes
20. 52 days
21. Yes
22. On April 15, 1817
23. for Hartford, Connecticut``` 