 Hey everybody! Alright, so trying out some new stuff. It is morning, and I'm still just getting ready to wake up. But hey, like I said in the title, I'm on a quest to learn 5,000 new words in sign language. I think the goal of this is to just improve my ability to be able to communicate with people, people in my family, friends, you name it. And what better way to improve myself than trying to learn a new language and just round out some really interesting parts of my increasingly eccentric personality with some new talents. Why not? So what I figured out a while back ago on a Google post was that you have to know 10,000 words in order to be fluent in a language, and I was like, what? That's a lot of words! Turns out though, you only have to actually use 5,000 words in standard usage. So like, I might know more than 10,000 words in English, but on a daily basis I'm using way less than a 5,000, and maybe on average about 5,000 words a year, different words a year. And so if you know that much, you're basically at near native level. And my thing is, I already know like sign language grammar, and I know a lot of words already. I just want to fill up my toolkit with a little bit more of a vocabulary, so that way I can express myself better. In the future, I'm going to do all these intros in sign language, but like I said, I need the tools to get me there, and I figured this is a good way for me to establish that. So what I did was make a list, I made a list of the top 5,000 words that are used in English based on this website called wordfrequency.info, and I was able to use this list as a way to figure out, hey, what words in English do I actually have to start learning in order for me to complete this goal? And I organized the list in order of frequency, and made a little column here that says, is this part of ASL? Is it not a part of ASL? And do I know it? I don't know it. And if it passes, I get a score. Today we're going up to 200, because last episode we did the first 100 most frequently used words in English, and now we're in the, a bit far away from the home stretch, but we're getting there guys, we're definitely going to get there. And thanks for joining me on this journey. So let's get to it. That's enough of a preamble, we're already 2 minutes into this, so let's just knock these out. So only signed like this, only looks like this, only like only, sometimes it looks like something, but way how I sign it is only, and if I'm not too confident about that, or if I'm not too sure about it, we can always look this up later, but pretty confident this is only, so like you only have like one, right? You really want to do it like that. And those, you can sign those things, I like to use the they, or like my multiple fingers for like they, you can use those things over there. Tell, tell, tell. Let me show you the list as we go through this. Here we go. Tell, so like I'm telling this person something, I'm telling that person something else, right? All right, so hey, we just did three already. Isn't that awesome? Three, let's make that capitals. Yes, yes, yes. One, if I'm signing one, I like to do like over emphasize one, unless if I'm just like one, two, three, or one, two, three, four for a second, whatever, but if I'm just saying one, I like to over emphasize it. So one, I like that. Let's see. Very looks like this. Very, very. Next, her point. You might see that some of these are repeated. And I looked it up and turns out the repeated if they're used in English as like nouns, or as a verb, or as like an adverb, they have their own separate ranking. So that's why we might see some repeats here. Even, so like even as in like it's all the same, or like as all the same stretching out over time is like like that. It's like it's all even, or like it's all like generally like smooth. If you meant like even as in truths like, man, I even went to the store yesterday, you can just say really or right. You maybe even want to use very sometimes. There's options there, but that takes care of even, which I think it's like the most frequently used for even is like it's even back. Just type your back. It's that simple. Let's see. Any looks like this. You just rotate down. It's like any, any, you can like if you're if you're signing a lot, I'm not going to make a big hassle if you do that, but generally it's this, right? Any, any works. Any, any is fine, right? But you don't want to get too crazy with it because then it looks like you're saying other or else. So it's like any, if you're really being specific, any good, two hands, two O's, I like to say good, good. Thank you. No O or no O's and O and thank you. Like thanks. I appreciate it. Thanks. But good, two O's, two hands. That's the way I would keep it in mind. Good. Yeah. All right. Woman looks like this woman, woman. So it's like the sign for mom and the sign for fine. Don't ask me why, but it is more of like, if you split your face in half, it's a little gruesome. The top half of your face is for like male sign. So like boy, man, and then the bottom half of your face is for like female sign. So like aunt, sister, you have mom, you got a woman. So that's how it works. So I do this and that to mean woman. This and this would mean man through goes through something like take your hands and literally going through it through very simple. A lot of these signs are expressed as if you're shaping it out what you mean anyway. So like for example, us, I could say you and me. I can say you and me. I can say we, if I wanted to, or I could be like, Hey, all of us around here. All of us. It's like, you know, all of us, like all of us. So like when I do we, I'm already doing like this sign, but I'm just making it really short, right? So when I say us, I'm just making sure it's like even more emphasized us. But like I can also do this, that works. That's we. And then I can also do like you and me. It's like us people got to stick together, right? But us is like this. Life looks like that. Two L signs goes up. I think this is like live, but this is life, right? And so it's like, where do you live? It's like life. So like this is for like live, like where are you living right now? Like where you like hanging out, right? But this is more like, Hey, you enjoying life? You good? There's a lot of life here. Child, you're literally just tapping them out. It's like, Hey, you got, there's one child here. This sign would be a little lower to the ground if I was standing up, but like, you might have a big child, you might have a small child, but like child child child as if you're tapping the top of their head. There, just point there. It's all good work works like this. Hammer on an anvil work down just point down may. Oh, I don't know what this is referring to. May you may you should. So like, if you need to do something, you could do this may you if you're allowing someone to do something, I don't know how to sign allow, but may you may do something you may not. Maybe it's like maybe this is a sign for maybe it's like maybe and I don't know the sign for allow. I think we'll hit it though. Oh, I got a friend texting me. I think we'll hit maybe or allow later on in this list. If not, let me make a note. How how do you say how do you say this list will probably get longer as we go allow. We'll add to that as we keep going. Alright, let's see what's next on this list after. So after so like here's something you got to do now it's here in the present and you got to do something after that after right should looks like this you should you could you need to you must you ought to it's all the same all the same sign all the same sign yeah yes yes yes call uh you can call someone on the phone that's one way to do it if you're calling someone by their name if you're saying their name you can like extend that out it's like hey Brandon hey Clarence hey uh Deanna whatever it's all good let's see world uh so this is a group sign so group signs look like this they move your hands down and you can initialize different things with your group sign to mean different things so if I made a w sign this is the letter for w letter for w and I made the group sign it means world likewise if I did group sign with f's that means family t means team g group so this is world yeah there's a lot of flexibility there group sign but with initialized means world over same thing as after really over you're going over something yeah school um this might be loud you clap your hands school because the sign for school comes from the sign for paper which I believe looks like this like this is like paper so school is just a bunch of papers right and if you go to like college or university it's actually this it's like hey school but a little bit higher than that right higher education right that's cool cool next still oh I don't know still let me think I know you like you keep doing something or like it's been it's been this way still probably looks like this still still like I know it has to come from you and keep going further out so still I would say is like this and let's look that let's look it up who's gonna tell me how to sign still let's see ASL still yeah yeah looks like that okay so let's look at let's see if there's a video that there might be other ways of doing still I know I know some people like to say keep going or or I've been doing something like this but still also can look like that let's see yeah that's that's pretty clear that's pretty clear this is hand speak by the way she's great all right let's back up to the list so still we know is like this all right try I know looks like this you try you try so it's a lot like still really when you think about it but it's more like that okay T oh got a little confused in we talked about before it's in as uh same as the same as something else yeah like as same as is where I would use that so like it's it looks as if it's something else looks as if something else yeah wait I mean you could either do this or you can I mean it's all depending how you use it in a sentence but like if I'm saying same as I just I just point out what I'm talking at like if I say hey this cup is the same as that cup I can even just do that so I connect the two with an equal or same as sign this sign means same as unless you do it like this then it means oh I see why sign connecting these two things together is sort of like a same as general connector same sign last is this you take your two pinkies and you tap them together so like this this would actually be first this is actually the last right it's the last of both of your fingers touching together and let me make sure I know that one real enough because I don't want to say something wrong last should be like this yeah let's see yeah yeah and then the first should be it's either with your pinky or it's with your finger but like he's the first person that was the last person right and we'll get to those not bad so far ask so like this means question right I got a question I need to ask you a question look how it's different from should which is more like you need to or you should it's more of like should it's like I'm trying to just like making the question sign but now I'm like sort of like whipping it towards you it's not like I'm saying hey man you should have done this you should have done this with your face hey you need to get this done it's more like hey can I ask you a question I got a question can I ask you a question and if I have to interrogate you it's just question after question after question that's that's ask need need to remember we said is you bend your finger and you point towards a person I need to you need to that's how it works to I would say is the same as same like I need to go to like I need to go over there too right you would use the same ass sign feel I feel oh it's one of those weird ones feel I feel is like this if you want to do with one hand you can just do it like this I feel like that's all you have to do ASL feel there are a lot of different ways of doing this sign depending on how how how many yeah yeah so like some people go like this some people just do this some people just tap there's typically a really good way to like yeah so like she's just going up twice but generally like whether you do this whether you do this whether you do this whether you whether you circle it's all basically the same thing it's just different kinds of emotions it's like the emotion sign here we go three looks like this one two three right they do this in Germany I remember that movie when looks like this yeah when is like this it's like your your hands a clock and you're rotating as if your other hand was like a bunch of hands around the finger so when when yeah oh we got some weird ones here state as in like how I'm alive or like a us state so like if it's a us state like pretend this is like the united states and you just have like a bunch of states all around it that's one of them if you're saying state is in talk it's like tell it's like tell again so like I'm stating I'm stating the facts right like I'm telling you what needs to be said but if it's like state it's like this I don't know which one it is but I think I got my bases covered never is a fun one never looks like this never and you have to be if you're saying never in ASL it can't just be something like never it looks like a question mark like that like if you're saying never you can't you have to put your face into it I feel like I feel like well that's one of the signs where you have to be really in fact with what you're saying so you have to be like never never never said that we're getting ready to record a radio show in about um let's see oh man like 40 minutes from now so let's keep going become looks like this become become become remember general Maya said you now become my voice she said and that was really really nice that was a nice sign really great character between it's like through but you get stuck so like it's like through it's like through but you get stuck so now you're just like between that's basically it uh high you make the h sign and um if you are if you are drug induced high you can be like like oh man I'm so high like like that right but if you just mean high you just say hey that's really high typically it's a general sign for like your hand but you're initializing it just to add some clarity to it so like hey that's really really high wow it's like left is sort of like you can move your hand to the left but you can also say like left left left right right right right right left left hi hi hi up down those two those last two weren't initialized but sometimes you initialize just for clarity really looks like this really like oh really yeah like I agree that's true that's basically it something um so in the dragon prince they actually did something like this where they sign the word some and then they did the sign for thing right but you or you don't know or I think they even did this for some thing and I'm like that's not how people sign something people just sign something like this it's like nine there's you don't need a separate sign for something it's just something like I don't care something I don't know something think of something that's it just general something is just like this if I I wouldn't split those into two different words like how they did on the show but most looks like this remember general Maya said most important meal of the day it's breakfast right so most most these two hands most right another another should look like other so like another should look like other it's basically else another should look like other let's see ASL another I don't know the sign for another but I think it should look like else yeah it should look like that yeah so like I had another it's the same sign as other which looks like this should look like this yeah so that's other any another it's all basically the same thing it's just like hey this or that doesn't really matter too much and be careful how you gesture that so like any I like to just do once this way other I like to waggle back and forth maybe at most twice but just other works this way to just for clarity then another seems to be the same thing much should be much it's like we have a lot a lot like this or like grand is like this but much should just be like I have a lot much family remember that's a group sign with f's and you make the group sign with your f's to mean family own um it's like this I own this this is mine o w n so o w n o w n o w n then over time it just got kind of lazy and now people just sign own own own used to be one of those words that people used to spell out and now people just do this own own o w n own own own own own own own own own and then they they gesture towards themselves to show they own it maybe you own it maybe you own it it's all the same thing all right out in out I love how these signs are so clear leave so like um say I was here and I had to go right I had to go think of this like a squid or an octopus is like here and then as he leaves he becomes more aerodynamic or fluid dynamic or whatever you want to call it that's leave I'm out I'm out I'm out so like class leaving what time right so like leave you can say that that works leave put just put just put it down somewhere here here you can say put or you can be like hey I got this I got this big heavy thing I'm carrying put it down somewhere and you're good that's it just put it somewhere put put that's what that sign looks like all right hey man hey we're we're blazing through this this is not too bad old looks like this wait old should look like this because it's um the same way how you ask how old someone is so like if I was gonna say and we'll come back to allow how how old are you I would just sign well my bad I would just sign um old you I'd be like old you and and the sign for old would just be old you old you oh wait old you yeah my eyebrows go down there's a weird thing with ASL where if you're asking a question that's not yes or no it's like uh old you 30 and or 33 let's pretend I'm 33 uh and you put your eyebrows up if you're asking a yes or no question but you put your eyebrows down if you're just asking like more of like an open-ended question that could give you any kind of answer so like old you and it might tell you 16 they might tell you 40 they might tell you 70 but as long as it's not yes or no keep those eyebrows down so yes that's good guys this is not so bad while looks like this the same thing is like meanwhile so it's like meanwhile I was doing that during that's like the during science like that was happening while this other thing was happening so like while looks like this while it's sort of like go and I know some people get a really extravagant with how they sign go but like while is like this all right so mean mean mean is this like average mean like isn't angry as in oh you're so mean mean or meaning meaning meaning like if you have a lot of different meaning meaning looks like this like what does that mean it's like what does that mean eyebrows down because it's an open-ended question but if you mean looks like that so let's do ASL for average ASL no let's just add it to the list I'm just adding it to the list allow average these are two words I want to know at least for next time but yeah I think that counts on just putting your hands on the other hand shows on something yes keep classic sign 2k signs keep very simple sign keep keep that yeah or keep this you can directionally show where you want that to go a student is a learning person a student is a learning person okay this means learn this is a sign for an agent or a person being so a learning person as a student a teaching my bad a teaching person is a teacher yeah why looks like this this is why how I like to do it I know some people like doing this and there might be other ways for doing why but I do my why like this like why why that yeah why do why do like that or like that if you want to be really specific but why that works just as well let oh man I don't know the sign for let but it seems like it follows up with allow so let's take a moment to figure out how to sign let for now and then we'll go to allow oh it's the same as way then it's the same thing as way the sign for allow also means let hey we got two for two here baby and that looks like way and I'll show you what the sign for way looks like wait here's the sign for way so it seems like yeah you see how that looks pretty similar to allow it looks very similar so like way is like the street well like the path that you're going but if you're allowing someone if you're allowing someone to do it it's like hey man I'll let you do it I'll let you go there I'll let you take the street I'll let you do it this way I allowed you to do that and now I can see that okay that's fair also here's another version of way yeah and then if I did I always like to cross-reference these let let's see let's see if these look the same yeah I let you do this I allowed you to do it okay seems to be more of like an open general way of doing that all right so if I were gonna say allow allow or if I was gonna say let it be like that all right and if I was gonna say like street specifically I can be like street path but way way seems to have the same gesture I feel though I can be specific for each one if I really needed to great great job great isn't big great or great either ways fun same these two things are the same I don't know how you do it among three things I guess you just kind of group them together but you'd say like hey these things are the same all right big big group g signs make the group sign group this is this is not as bad as I thought I think it's gonna get way worse as we get towards like the thousands but begin begin looks like start start start doesn't really matter which finger start start start start start begin yeah seem looks like this it's like ooh let me get some dramatic lighting over here whoo like you seemed but yeah that's the sign for same uh country so uh country as in the music or this or the place where you live I'm not sure but if it's the place where you live so like all genres of music in sign language are basically this which goes to show you how much deaf people care if it's rock or if it's or if it's rap or gospel is like yeah it's it's basically sing songy stuff it doesn't really matter there's no difference but if it's a country where you're living in so like think of like your whole like your whole body or like think of this like maybe you're holding like a map or something like this and this is your map and like it's only a certain part of the map right which is the country where you live right it's like it's a little part of it that's what that means so like I know some proper some people may even do it this way right it's like this is all one same thing they're trying but this is typically the uh this is how I would do it let me let me verify that because there's different ways people do a lot of things country asl ooh okay so here he's doing it with the y hand but also here he's doing it with this hand and it doesn't matter which one I think it's also the same sign for county because it's a big thing and a small part of a big thing yeah there you go and there's your variation yeah so it's all good even whether it was fine and if it's a music genre and just do this because it's just singing people don't care people can't hear can't care they don't they don't care help looks like this talk looks like that I'm talking where where if you're asking the question eyebrows down where turn okay so if like I had something and I wanted to say hey turn it turn that like turn that around like turn that around but I feel like there's another variation of that turn I've seen turn this way like if I need to take turns with someone I'd be like hey let's take turns let's take turns like you go you go then I go then you go then I go then you go I go she goes then you that person goes she goes you go like we're taking turns as we're doing this I feel like okay so if it's turn it around it's just rotate it it's like rotate but if it's take a turn it's like this so I feel like I gotta look that up real quick asl rotate do do do do oh is rotate like no no no that works too that's rotating that's rotates let's see here's another sign for rotate oh that's just people going all over the place yeah and we'll all take turns we'll all take turns so it's it's highly directional so it's all base and that let me let me let me uh let me try to explain what's going on here a lot of signs in asl can be directed towards different people to provide context for what you mean which is a really beautiful thing about the language but um if I was saying I was taking a turn and you're taking a turn yeah I take a turn you take a turn I take a turn you take a turn and if a lot of things are just like rotating all over the place and and taking turns all over the place that works as well um if I was saying she's taking a turn and then he's gonna take a turn she's taking a turn then he's gonna take a turn it works that way and if I'm talking about myself in someone else it could be that way if I'm saying like rotate something can work this way if I'm saying all of you guys just spin around in a circle there's a lot of different ways you can take this but uh basically turn like this and like rotate could be like this or like this depending on what the context is if you're talking about people if you're talking about like a big object just like turn that thing around yeah turn your turn your um whatever the hell you call that thing uh steering wheel turn it out around yeah there you go problem looks like this it's sort of like hard but it's more of like huh there's a big problem here there's a there's a big problem here or you can say a big problem but like you can contextualize that it's like there's a big problem it's a hard problem yeah hard problem every looks like each so each each and every I know this sign if you know anything learn this one this is great each and every problem here so each and every each and every right so every looks like this each looks like that each looks the same way they're both the same sign you can say every start every start is a new beginning make that sound ever you want hand just point at your hand you can start by looking at your hand right might same thing as maybe uh you can say maybe I mean my hand right uh maybe she's American right American it's like a group of different people coming together all around from all around and that's a person isn't that a beautiful sign for America bunch of people coming together from all around and it's a person so like America and an American that's great I love that sign all these people from all around the place coming together that's great it's beautiful show okay so so if I want to show like look at this thing and I'm going to show it to you if I'm in a show like where I went to like a a play or if I see something on tv like entertainment it's like this like hey what's going on but if I'm trying to show you something that's how I would sign that show show show what are the ways or their signs for show so like if I was watching a movie there's a separate sign for movie uh which hand do I rotate this is one I'm like movie but no one understands this anymore this is the way how they did it when I was growing up but no one understands that this is like a film reel going around and around and around so who knows how they sign for movies in this generation anymore they probably just do like click that's it I don't know everything's just done on smartphones these days is depressing next show's done part you're cutting your hand to a part sometimes it looks like some if you're doing really fast it's not going to be that big of a deal but part part about we talked about it you got a bunch of topics you're going to talk all about those I think we're almost getting towards the last against ooh I'm against that like I was going and then someone else came up against it against hard stop place same thing is put just put put something in a place unless if you mean like spatially a place like I'm talking about this specific location like think of it as like a big dot on an on an x y plane place like place let's do I'll show you what I'm talking about because that one I think the camera angle I have set up doesn't really show that very well but place should look like I don't know yeah oh I was doing that wrong it's not this it's like this it's place but I mean it's like point to a point point to a point it's like the same thing for location let's see that again yeah okay over same thing is like after you go over I think we did that one already over unless if it's end if it's the end of something like this is finished like we finished yeah such such such oh man such this was such a this was very I don't know how you sign such let's say no for now how do I sign such ASL such this is such a thing very a thing let me see what this looks like uh oh no that's not how you do it let me see yeah yeah yeah yeah okay so it's like the same thing it's like it looks like the same thing for example um or there's another variation let's see yeah same let me show you something you're you're not saying you're not saying the same word as you would in English you're combining different words to give the same expression or the same meaning put together so like such would be like so for example I can show you blah blah blah blah blah blah blah right that's what they mean by that so or um I don't know I don't know why that you would use that that is not what that means sometimes it's hit or miss on signing savvy but it's fine yes I would say this could be used for such but there's really really I would say such isn't even really a part of ASL but the expressions you can express such by using different words and combining them together so I'll say I'll say not ASL because you can go around that word really easy again looks like this again that's definitely one-to-one more or less in English when I say is it ASL I mean like is this English word one-to-one does it have a partner in sign language or not or do you have to literally go around it with other words and in such you do but with again this means again that's one-to-one few oh she's got so many like so many she's got so many but this person but this person so few so few barely anything this is a sign for few it's like few it's like there's barely anything here barely anything here case um as in like something you're carrying like a case or just c a s e c a s e that's how I would sign case I don't know if there's a like a law suit oh let me put this away I don't think there's a sign for case ASL case let me see that one more time yeah you just finger spell it there's no specific sign for case so not ASL you can just sign it you can just spell it most looks like this most oh wait wait wait wait wait no no no no no that's not the sign for most this is a sign for most most important I got a little ahead of myself I was thinking again of that a general myosin but most most looks like this week week week because think of it as like you're looking at a calendar the weeks are straight over are they they come out in lines so week right month you have to like turn the page over right month so week right company c o because it's just c o c o means company c o I'm trying to come up with more words to explain why that's the case you know how you can um abbreviate company as c o that's what they've already done with um ASL us uh where we've already talked about it where system like that doesn't matter how the fists are really but like that's a system yeah each each and every remember we talked about that right right goes here unless we mean true then it's like this oh program uh program could be like so you can make the p sign and go over your hand or you can say um software sw sw because I know some people say computer software but if you mean a computer program you can mean this unless you mean a game or like playing a game like a computer game you can do that but program specifically would be p over your hand p over your hand oh the the letter p over your hand here it's like that so is s o so so some people do this too uh yeah so I see that a lot question just do this during you go that this happened during this and work we already talked about it that's your work and then play looks like this and let's see did I finish in time I sure did hey guys we have completed 200 new words wow that was a lot faster than it was before I think we're getting towards the uh more comfortable area I would say such as not part of ASL you have to come up with a bunch of words to spell it and case doesn't have its own word you can spell it hard to talk and spell the c a s e um but for the most part yeah I feel like this is a pretty straightforward list that we got now and next list she doesn't look too I don't think mr is a thing uh getting a little ahead of myself but no this looks like we community I got oh this is gonna be fun all right so that's it guys thank you very much for joining me on this fun romp we learned 200 new words in ASL and I think the only thing that I needed to learn leftover was how to say allow and average so let's look those up real quick I'm gonna look up how to say alone and average let's how do you say average in ASL average let me get a cross reference on that average okay is there a variation to calculate yeah that's just what I want to know definition to calculate and add up all the numbers in the vibe by how many numbers there were so it's like average average that's what I want to know average unless if they meant like average in terms of like looks it's like generally that's what you look like the average is like this average average it looks a lot like finish almost but it starts off with average and then goes to hey we did it all cool and then let me look at life print let's see how he did this time for average is done with dominant hand in a flat shape and the non-dominant hand in an open b shape the dominant hand taps the non-dominant tag twice at the midpoint between the non-hams so life print just doesn't like this these small movements though I feel like they don't really make too much of a difference it's more of like an accent between different people and how they talk but stylistic choices aside uh I think we finished everything guys we know 200 new words in ASL or we at least know we know 200 words next week we'll go even further than that and I can't wait to do it uh join me next time and we'll do this together how about that all right so I had a lot of fun uh see you guys next time