that last tip about how he processes his name in his head was the most helpful tip anyone could have given me thank u sooo much.no one has ever told me about that thank you.
This is American sign language. I saw one doing sign that I believe our instructor said is done in England. The way you can tell is that they are drawing letters on the palm compared to this man who signs ASL. Someone correct me if I'm wrong please.
alot of people are complaining about this one woman on youtube teaching sign. saying that she's not right, now I'm confused and i need help. not sure who's right, so if you know any good learning books could you let me know? ThanX!
The blonde woman is Canadian so what she's presumably teaching is Canadian sign language. But she doesn't specify that, hence the confusion. I personally think her explanations and teaching method are better. I could watch her videos just one time and remember what she taught easily. With this guy I have to watch at least a few times.
@rodazi they use American Sign Language in Canada. The blonde lady's name is listed under each of her videos, & if you google her, she does it all. She is just a sort of celebrity, spokes person for whomever and whatever as long as she is being paid.. As for her signing, anyone can look up signs in a book & pretend to be an expert. Really, all she is doing is showing vocabulary, words. That isn't ASL, that isn't LANGUAGE - and, she makes a lot of mistakes according to those who DO know ASL.
my name is Cassandra and i was wondering, when i need to signal two of the same letters in a row do i need to hold it a bit longer? or berhaps sign a repeat or something?
This is a great thing your doing. Even just the idea of not spelling individual letters, rather think of the word and spell the whole word. I'd been havng a problem of going to slow or gettign stuck half way through a word, and I think that practicing this way will help me. Cant wait to look through all your other episodes.
Please remember that the ENGLISH ALPHABET is ENGLISH. Although ALL LANGUAGES USE WORDS< SOUNDS TAKEN FROM OTHER LANGUAGES, ASL does not have and ALPHABET. PEACE.
In scandinavian languages we have also alphabets Å, Ä and Ö which of course have their own signs. Those are modificated from signs "A" and "O" with palm movement vertically.
Å = make vertical circle with palm while signin "A"
Ä = move your palm from left to right while signing "A"
Looks like alphabet signs are somewhat universal. In Finnish Sign Language only F and G have different sign. Thou some of the alphabet/letter signs were "updated" couple of decades ago, so the sign for F and G in Finnish Sign Language could have been different in the past. (G is actually signed like H but with only 1 finger)
Starling, alphabet signs are very much not universal. The best example of this is BSL (British Sign Language). In Britain, they use English, just as in America, but their alphabet uses two hands and only a few letters are the same or similar. (I encourage you to look at some BSL videos on here for examples.) The Finnish/American alphabet signs must be a coincidence.
My point wasn't that the Finnish/American alphabets are different -- it was that the similarity does not apply to all countries' manual alphabets. I've done research on the topic. BSL is the best example because both America and England use English. But there are others: Russia, China, Germany, etc.
The French manual alphabet is probably similar (though I have not studied it), mostly because American Sign Language is closest to French Sign Language (due to Laurent Clerc).
Ok, point taken now. I watched the alphabet being signed on YouTube both in ASL and BSL and though i did see many similarities, it appeared to me as a similar likeness between spoken german and spoken english for example. So .. i agree w your point:D
that last tip about how he processes his name in his head was the most helpful tip anyone could have given me thank u sooo much.no one has ever told me about that thank you.
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Very different to Auslan.
krissyeh 1 year ago
This is American sign language. I saw one doing sign that I believe our instructor said is done in England. The way you can tell is that they are drawing letters on the palm compared to this man who signs ASL. Someone correct me if I'm wrong please.
Songsmirth 3 years ago
Boy. That door leads NO WHERE!
brknmmrs 3 years ago
Flodin is a fantastic author of American Sign Language books. I homeschool and we are using a combination of youtube and Flodins books to teach.
Thanks for this!
ioathkeeper 3 years ago
alot of people are complaining about this one woman on youtube teaching sign. saying that she's not right, now I'm confused and i need help. not sure who's right, so if you know any good learning books could you let me know? ThanX!
TinkXx14dotKom 3 years ago
I think they're saying that the women isn't teaching AMERICAN sign language, but some other kind of sign language...
I dunno.. I was confused too :D
dlghwns 3 years ago
The blonde woman is Canadian so what she's presumably teaching is Canadian sign language. But she doesn't specify that, hence the confusion. I personally think her explanations and teaching method are better. I could watch her videos just one time and remember what she taught easily. With this guy I have to watch at least a few times.
rodazi 3 years ago
@rodazi they use American Sign Language in Canada. The blonde lady's name is listed under each of her videos, & if you google her, she does it all. She is just a sort of celebrity, spokes person for whomever and whatever as long as she is being paid.. As for her signing, anyone can look up signs in a book & pretend to be an expert. Really, all she is doing is showing vocabulary, words. That isn't ASL, that isn't LANGUAGE - and, she makes a lot of mistakes according to those who DO know ASL.
Bhav341 1 year ago
The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary "Richard A. Tennant and Marianne Brown. Excellent book.
ucfalum 3 years ago
ucfalom, do you know of any helpful books that I could use as a tool to help me learn more maybe quicker?
TinkXx14dotKom 3 years ago
The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary "Richard A. Tennant and Marianne Brown. Excellent book.
ucfalum 3 years ago
my name is Cassandra and i was wondering, when i need to signal two of the same letters in a row do i need to hold it a bit longer? or berhaps sign a repeat or something?
playfulrwe 3 years ago
This is a great thing your doing. Even just the idea of not spelling individual letters, rather think of the word and spell the whole word. I'd been havng a problem of going to slow or gettign stuck half way through a word, and I think that practicing this way will help me. Cant wait to look through all your other episodes.
johnmazz84 4 years ago
Please remember that the ENGLISH ALPHABET is ENGLISH. Although ALL LANGUAGES USE WORDS< SOUNDS TAKEN FROM OTHER LANGUAGES, ASL does not have and ALPHABET. PEACE.
pognyc 4 years ago
Dear Mark,
Thank you for this series. I am looking forward to seeing more of these videos!
Chris
mensoelrey 5 years ago 3
In scandinavian languages we have also alphabets Å, Ä and Ö which of course have their own signs. Those are modificated from signs "A" and "O" with palm movement vertically.
Å = make vertical circle with palm while signin "A"
Ä = move your palm from left to right while signing "A"
Ö = move your palm upwards while signin "O"
StarlingKnight 5 years ago
Looks like alphabet signs are somewhat universal. In Finnish Sign Language only F and G have different sign. Thou some of the alphabet/letter signs were "updated" couple of decades ago, so the sign for F and G in Finnish Sign Language could have been different in the past. (G is actually signed like H but with only 1 finger)
StarlingKnight 5 years ago
Starling, alphabet signs are very much not universal. The best example of this is BSL (British Sign Language). In Britain, they use English, just as in America, but their alphabet uses two hands and only a few letters are the same or similar. (I encourage you to look at some BSL videos on here for examples.) The Finnish/American alphabet signs must be a coincidence.
mergfkt 4 years ago
Hmm 24 out of 26 coincidences..that is a LOT of coincidence if you ask me. Come on, such similarity is NOT coincidence, please!
veerleke 4 years ago
My point wasn't that the Finnish/American alphabets are different -- it was that the similarity does not apply to all countries' manual alphabets. I've done research on the topic. BSL is the best example because both America and England use English. But there are others: Russia, China, Germany, etc.
The French manual alphabet is probably similar (though I have not studied it), mostly because American Sign Language is closest to French Sign Language (due to Laurent Clerc).
mergfkt 4 years ago
Ok, point taken now. I watched the alphabet being signed on YouTube both in ASL and BSL and though i did see many similarities, it appeared to me as a similar likeness between spoken german and spoken english for example. So .. i agree w your point:D
veerleke 4 years ago