ASL Learning Experience 1

Introduction

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Education

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• ASL
• learning
• introduction

[tomtrumpeter]

Am I supposed to be mirroring you, or using my right hand for your right hand, or does it not matter? Thanks for posting this :)

[spykexboi]

@tomtrumpeter haha... it all depends on your dominant hand (if you're right handed.... use your right hand, and vice versa! :-) Hope this helped.

[MrsEee]

lol Even in sign language men are above, but women below!!! he,he...

[spykexboi]

lmfao so true!!!!!

[bluesette82]

The reason why men are above is because in olden times the men wore hats with a brim.

Women wore bonnets tied under their chins, therefore

Brim= top part of the face

bonnet strings= bottom part of the face

[spykexboi]

hahaha hey thats pretty cool!! I didnt even know that!

[Arron1313]

Quebec Sign Language, known in French as Langue des signes québécoise (LSQ), is a sign language used in Canada. Most LSQ users are located in Quebec, but a few are scattered in major cities in the rest of the country.

[deafornot8]

I just start to learn ASL recently, am hard of hearing. I can sign some simple words now. I joined a great deaf daing site, ----Deafornot dot c om----, and met some good deaf/HOH friends over there. They help me to learn ASL.

[Regiment4Mac]

I'd kill myself if you were my son.

[bwahaha201]

shit your hot. i'd hook you up.

[bwahaha201]

lmfao you just farted thats so fucking funny . omg im cracking up

[patsaxon]

I was born deaf and back in the 1960's when I attended the school for the deaf, they would not teach sign language as educators wanted the deaf to learn to talk and read lips. At the age of 8, I had surgery to recover most of my hearing and later in life I started taking courses in ASL. I then learned about deaf culture and sadly I also learned how my right was taken away to learn to sign as a deaf child.

[SasoriNoDannaLova]

Thanks for this :) im so behind in years in this and your videos are catching me up!

[Medicalphiliac]

Did you fart at 3:58? lol thats awesome!

[Chadoacdc]

To clarify my own clarification: "aunt" is done wrong, but I forgot to say, that the hand is slightly away from the face. An alternative sign is to quiver the "a" hand near the lower chin area. The "a" motion he uses here, is a variaton of "apple", and if he had crooked his forefinger it would become "make-up" These are slight changes, but even a slight change can change the entire conceptual meaning of a word.

[Chadoacdc]

to be fair, though, the rest of the signs are correct... (just didn't want to be a negative nelly), lol.

[Chadoacdc]

"aunt" is done wrong, he is actually signing a variation of "apple", "aunt" takes a circular hand motion. Be careful to get your hand motions correct, and don't rely on only one source when studying any subject... (that's a piece of advice a deaf friend of mine gave to me, so now I'm giving it to you.)