Rainbow Connection in ASL

[jcchurch]

Very pretty!

[DukeTravers]

I away loved seeing a song translated into ASL. ASL has alway felt like extracted the symbolizism from words people are used to. I feels like I am seeing the song.

[thespacemonk]

Wow!! Very cool. You can practice on any of my songs ANYTIME!!(:-D

Thanks for sharing the beautiful gift of communication.

Rock on!!!

As You Will...

[monkeysoulpoet]

This has me teary-eyed. Wow.

[mewmewluchia]

I LOVE this! I wish I had the patience to learn sign-language.

You're so cool :'D

[MrMerraine]

Although I don't recognise all the signs, I think it's great you're doing this. My wife is deaf, and fortunately knows ASL, so will forward this to her

[YazatLane]

What's ASL for excellent sweater puppies?

[harly1978]

Will you marry me?

[heartcorazoncoeur]

I only know a handful of words in ASL, but I decided to perform at a fundraiser doing asl interpretation to a song, and I picked Rainbow Connection, and used your video to help me learn it! (along with checking online dictionaries to double-check, just in case) everyone loved it especially the Deaf audience members and ASL signers. Thanks to you!!!

[JustDaveMusic]

this is awesome . kudos !!

[TheLisaMonster]

Not ASL. 

[earlthesquirrle]

GOD bless you for careing for those who cannot hear.thank you.

[kayleeroseblack]

I was watching The Muppets Movie last night and was trying to sign to it. I am so happy that someone did this video. This was really good!!

[iheartdonut]

no. thank ~you.

[SmilinSweetpea]

Awesome. Thank you for sharing. I liked it so much, I'm going to post this to my Facebook page.

[melrobichaud]

i think this is wonderful...i am teaching it to the children to sing at school for the closing/graduation ceremony's they are ages 2 1/2 to 6 and they are really enjoying it! Thank you please keep posting!

[DocWyldeCard]

I noticed you used your left hand predominantly throughout the song. Does it matter which hand is used for specific words in ASL? I ask because I'm right-handed, and it might be difficult to perform complex movements w/ my left.

Thanks in advance.

[Cynabunnie]

@DocWyldeCard - not really. You can use either hand and those who sign should understand it. I call it signing with an accent lol

[Falkore02]

@DocWyldeCard Some songs require that you use your dominant and recessive hand in different ways to make the sign. For example, the sign "Rainbow", the dominant hand raises up in an arc while the recessive hand stays in place. It does not matter which hand moves and which hand stays put. If you are left handed, like Cynabunnie, your left hand moves. If you are right handed, you'd just do the sign from the other side. Same effect either way.

[Falkore02]

@DocWyldeCard In ASL you use both your dominant and recessive hand when making many signs. For example, when signing "Rainbow" the dominant hand moves up in an arch while the recessive hand stays in place. If you are a lefty like Cynabunnie, then your left hand moves up in the arc, if you are a righty, then you switch it up and your right hand makes the arc. The sign is the same either way.

[victoare]

Nicely done :)

[zellychan]

Random question: Is "wait" just wiggling fingers while "many" is flashing/popping fingers?

[Cynabunnie]

@zellychan That's how I was taught, yes.

[theboombody]

This is awesome. I love this song. It inspired me to do a picture of a 3-eyed Kermit the Frog for my website.

[Cynabunnie]

lol I'd like to see it!

You should do a 4-eyed Cynabunnie..

oh wait, nevermind.

[birdarise]

Wow, nice to see this... I love the serendipity of the Net... I just got your comment about my Kinks song, then I got an email asking for the lyrics to my songs that I'll be doing at an upcoming festival, in order for interpreters to be prepared to sign them in ASL as I sing.... then I check your channel, and boom, ASL again... PLUS I recently reconnected with an old bandmate after 27 years... he retired from special ed teaching recently...and I recall him being big on ASL...

[Cynabunnie]

It's a beautiful language and community. :) Oh, and the Kinks totally ROCK!!

[jmazzeo2]

My 15 month old son loves watching you sign the song. Do you have any more songs planned?

[Cynabunnie]

I did, but I haven't been working on it lately. Do you have any requests? :)

[lilaven07753]

that seems more like english sign language rather than asl.

[Cynabunnie]

It's whatever I learned in school and I filled in what I couldn't remember with the Internet. What I learned in school was called American Sign Language, or ASL. I'm not sure what the difference is between American and English except maybe the accent... :P

[ebonyhippo]

@lilaven07753 It is signed English, but I still think it's well done.

[Katzi]

Beautiful!Thanks so much for posting this.

[rhondarockwell]

cynabunnie,

sweet. thanks for making my day. I shared.

your sign is wonderful. very relaxed and nice pace is easy to read . keep it up. Hope to see more from you.