ASL for dummies and bored people: the Pledge of Allegiance

[tbnjazzer]

I love this video, so much better than the others! Thank you so much for slowing it down, that's soooooo helpful! Thank you!

[GreenDayisAmazing]

Thank You for this video. It' s cool to see how to sign this song!

[leviathanc]

You aren't supposed to teach other people how to sign language because you aren't qualified....yes, you heard me right. Qualified and Certified because you only know very little bits of basic of American Sign Language. So, therefore, leave the American Sign Language teaching part to the professional native signers, not you until you are "certified and qualified" to teaching American Sign Language by your own home state or another state where you are currently at. Understand?

[barbaro267]

@leviathanc The way I see it, I can't "professionally" teach ASL unless I'm certified. I'm not teaching people who are paying for it and are 100% serious about it. I'm doing it for fun, and people who actually watch my videos are learning whatever I'm teaching for fun. Don't go all "legal" on me because it's not my intent to pretend to be professional in any way :) If I was having a class, teaching Sign Language, then yes, I can't legally do that. But this is unprofessional and is for anyone.

[nuts2100]

I live with a deaf person and most of those sings were wrong and he knows ASL as well as me

[barbaro267]

@nuts2100 They are not wrong. There are many different dialects of ASL. Some are more formal, some are more old-school, some are more English based...and signs change as the Deaf community changes. So what you may see as "wrong" is actually different from what you know. It's like learning Spanish in school and going to Mexico and speaking with the locals. It's just different.

[embrysc1]

Thank you. Very helpful. I'm a homeschooling mom trying to teach this to my children, but all the tutorials are too fast for them. Very helpful!

[barbaro267]

@embrysc1 Glad I can help! Any questions you may have, just ask!

[ConcreteAngelx3]

thank you!! you are awesome

[Frubahboi]

One thing- when you say left to right or right to left, you need to say that it's for right-hand dominate signers; it goes reverse for us leftys. :) Good job though, and no, it wasn't incorrect.

[barbaro267]

@Frubahboi ooh oops...did I not say anything about left hand versus left hand? I feel like I've mentioned it before in my earlier vids (this is my 3rd of 3)....sorry!

[Frubahboi]

@barbaro267 Hahahaha you may have, this was the only video I've watched- so no need to apologize. :) The only reason I mention it is because tat was EXTREMELY difficult for me to realize when I first started signing. :)

[barbaro267]

@Frubahboi I bet! And when teaching to a class, it could be hard because you're showing everyone the right-handed/armed way, and then you have to DO it backwards for the lefties (doing it backwards feels weird because you're not supposed to sign with the non-dominate hand). lol!

[MysteryEcheverria]

Thanks for this excellent video. You are a great teacher, and I really enjoy your NATURAL and RELAXED method of teaching. After learning from you, I taught this to my Gifted Math class at a high school and they were very impressed.

[barbaro267]

@MysteryEcheverria wow that's really cool! I'm glad I helped make that possible! :D

[lauracakes131]

You're doing it wrong.

[barbaro267]

@lauracakes131 in ASL there is no right or wrong. I took ASL in high school, so it's definitely not WRONG.

[DevoROxYourSox]

@lauracakes131 She isn't wrong, ANY ASL teacher will tell you 10 different interpreters will sign it 10 different ways, and that's simply her way of signing it! As long as they are conceptually correct ( which she is) it doesn't matter! Have you taken an ASL class? Even if she signed everything wrong or if she signed SEE or PSE, if you know ASL show her how you would've signed it, don't point a wrong finger at her because you'll have a few of your own fingers pointing back!

[XAlleyXpsychoX]

You should make the spoken English accessible for Deaf people, its really confusing and unfair to only sign part.

[barbaro267]

@XAlleyXpsychoX sorry....I was mainly aiming for hearing people who want to learn sign. Deaf people (D not d) already know sign so why bother learning from me? lol

[DevoROxYourSox]

@XAlleyXpsychoX You obviously don't know about ASL because then you would know that she is conceptually correct! You don't need to sign every single word because that are just fillers that hearing people need.Take this sentence for example " I am going to the store to buy milk" what do "the" "am" and "to" really mean? where as in ASL you can say I GO STORE BUY MILK and you get the idea of what you're saying. Sign language is a way to learn English but there is no written language for ASL.

[XAlleyXpsychoX]

@DevoROxYourSox Oh no, what i was saying is that there should have been captions for the parts that weren't signed. I didn't mean the signing part was wrong, I do know ASL. I was saying it should have been accessible when she was voicing.

[barbaro267]

@XAlleyXpsychoX I'm so sorry about that! I didn't make this for deaf/Deaf people or Hard of Hearing folk...mostly for hearing people who are interested in the language...or bored :)

[sngr3]

THANKS FOR SLOW AND CAREFUL REPS--I'M JUST LEARNING AND IT HELPS HOW YOU TEACH US HEARING FOLK WHO WANT TO LEARN SIGN--IT'S NOT OBVIOUSLY FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED AND FYI I JUST BOUGHT 'SIGNING FOR DUMMIES'--KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!!!!!!!!

[laurelsowards]

I enjoyed your video- thank you for sharing, I found it very helpful. It was GREAT that you included the gloss because I really needed to know that info! Just curious are you a CODA or in an interpreting program?

[WorldWideLyrics95]

Thank you sooo much! you helped me a lot!!! =]

[casfur24]

Your a great teacher, keep making videos...PLEASE..(:

[anissa7394]

HEY EXCUSE ME! WE (HEARING IMARIED) NOT DUMMIES! OR BORED PEOPLE.. you know this is why i HATE WHEN YOU PEOPLE CALL US "death, Bored, retarted, handicapped...." we dont get it why... is it bcuz we cant hear??? we are humans being just like you all but thing is we cant hear, but some of us can't talk, but I CAN TALK and can't hear, but it doesnt mean that were dummies or...

[barbaro267]

How rude! I am NOT referring to deaf people, I said dummies like the book series (the how-to-books...u know?)....I say "dummies and bored people" because i'm not making this video for people who already know ASL, they are for people who are interested and may want to learn!

[casfur24]

Yep she's not making fun of anyone,

she's more like making fun of people who can hear, if anything.

and Yep she's referring to the books like cooking for dummies, and there's a lot more books like that.

They do have it for ASL for Dummies also In stores,

look in Barns and Noble, Language section.

lol..

[ozzymandias21]

You dont use "for"

[barbaro267]

it's part of the english AND gloss

For the republic...FOR PEOPLE...how else would u sign it??

that's how i learned it, K?

[ozzymandias21]

I know that its part of english. But ASL is Not english. And you dont use english structure. I dont think that the deaf guys at school and the deaf asl teacher would use incorrect asl.

[barbaro267]

the ASL taught in my school uses a bit of SEE mixed in with ASL...at least that's what my teacher told us...but I don't think so :) we use ASL syntax...and that's how we gloss the song okay? don't get on my case. I do what the gloss tells me. we also learned that the gloss has to make sence in english...if u take out the "for", both hearing and deaf people wouldn't understand what u mean!

[MCRcuttiexoxo]

ok kool thanx imight need it with my teacher

[MCRcuttiexoxo]

i really enjoy watching this cuz my teacher doesnt explain it as much as u do! thanx

[barbaro267]

no prob! i'm glad it helped, if at all! if u have any questions, just ask! :D

[MrLearningASL]

Thanks, it is great to see it broken down like this. good work!

[reaganboyd32]

why would we be "stuck"i like your vids

[OptimusSmyth]

Interesting...