A tip I find helpful for learning to read fingerspelling is that as the letters are coming at you, in your head, don’t say the names of the letters but instead say their sound. So for example, if someone is fingerspelling “cat”, you wouldn’t think “C-A-T” but instead think “k-ah-t”. It’s not perfect and sometimes you’ll have to readjust halfway through (e.g. for a “c”, the sound might be “k” or “s”, which you might not know till you’re deeper into the word). But either way, it’s better than thinking about the names of the letters because as the word comes together, you’re going to hear it the way the word sounds instead of as a bunch of letters said one after another. (I’m not fluent in ASL, but learning. I think this tip that was given to me when I just started learning has really helped me so far.)
That is a great tip! I am still trying to learn ASL and I still struggle a lot with fingerspelling. I will definitely have to try practicing it this way. Thank you for the tip!
@@MoriahLilaca you’re welcome! For receptive skills, fingerspelling receptive tools have been great for me. I tried a few and the one I like best is called ASL Fingerspelling Practice (icon: 3 turquoise hands) by Steven Loria. I use this on my phone and on the desktop, I use Bill Vicars fingerspelling app on his website. Really similar interface, but Bill Vicars’ doesn’t require you to write in the answer to progress, which is nice if you don’t care about it telling you if you’re right, since much of the time I can tell if I understood it and don’t care about the score. At college (a decade ago), I had a half hour walk from school and for a while I was fingerspelling random words from podcasts while walking. Didn’t really care if people saw. I started doing this now again. I’m starting ASL 3 (a decade later) next week, so the last few months, I have been nearly compulsively learning as much ASL as I can. :)
I will definitely gave to look at those! I am having a bit of trouble continuing to motivate myself to learn. That is part of the reason for my channel. I really appreciate all your tips. I hope all of your learning goes well! Happy signing!
I think it would be helpful (in the future) to clarify that by “fingerspell everything” you don’t mean use fingerspelling for a full conversation. That would not be ASL. Rather, this tip means that as you’re going about your life, find opportunities to fingerspell random things around you (or what you hear on podcasts, shows, etc). I understood what you mean, but since many people (especially beginners or people who aren’t learning but are just curious) don’t understand the structure of ASL and can think that it’s just about representing English in signs, I think adding this extra clarification would be helpful. :)
Thank you so much for your comment! You are exactly right. I can see how it would be a little confusing if you are completely new to ASL to hear someone say fingerspell everything without clarifying that it doesn't mean that is the way to have a conversation. I definitely meant this tip to be about practicing fingerspelling different words while you are going about your day in order to become more proficient at it since it can be such a challenging thing to be comfortable with and to master. I really appreciate your comment. Thank you for taking the time to stop by my channel and clarify something in my video that could come across as confusing.
Thank you so much for this video! I am currently learning ASL and I need some tricks to help me study better between my classes! I thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated this content, thank you very much!
I am so glad you liked it! I grew up knowing some, took a class in college, and now I am trying to teach myself. I would love to take a class again sometime if I ever have time! Keep it up!
I taught my son as a baby, I would sign or finger spell the things he was interested in. For example if my son was hungry and wants chicken. I would sign your hungry and then do chicken sign. If you wanted milk or juice I would sign milk or juice and I would be holding these items in my hand.
@@MoriahLilaca that's a sad story the answer to your question is yes and no. He just turned 15 today matter if fact. He was very fluent in it. He picked it up really fast. However through the years his dad got mad that I was teaching him and took me to court. With the 🌍 not knowing how important signal is. The judge asked," me if he was deaf or dumb ?" Of course I said," no." There's huge benefits for kids who know more than one language. That was my reason for teaching him. And I was communicating with a crawling baby. It blew my mind. My said was communicating with before he could say momma or dada. The judge asked me what kind of mother are you. She said I am keeping him from learning how to talk. I should teach him Russian. I have never met anyone in our state that speaks Russian. His dad would smack him when he would do sign language.
@@WomenWinningTogetherNetwork I'm really sorry you have had to go through all of that. ASL is definitely a language that is important, so it's tough hearing that you didn't have any support from his dad. Thank you for sharing your story. I know that has got to be hard, but it is also important.
They definitely are! I am by no means and instructor or fluent, but from what I know and have learned, I can tell you that they matter. Your expression can be the difference between a question and a statement or evening the meaning of the sign.
It’s definitely hard to practice by yourself. I struggle with that too. I basically only practice with my son who isn’t even 2 years old yet! Have you tried practicing in front of a mirror so you can watch yourself sign? Something I am planning on trying to start doing is watching more videos of people telling stories using sign language. It can definitely be helpful to watch a story being told and see how much you understand. Let me know if there is anything you would like to see in my videos that would help you out! Thanks for watching!
@@MoriahLilaca thank u for your response. Ive been self learning almost 2 years. 1 hour a day. I was going to join a group but bc the pandemic happen the group closed. Im still learning bc i work in the dental field and food service and would like to communicate with everyone. I dont know anyone whose hard of hearing or deaf but i would like to be able to communicate when necessary and make them feel comfortable. I dont know if u understand my feeling.
I’m impressed that you put in an hour a day! I know that I need to put in more consistent time if I want to learn more. I can sort of understand where you are coming from. I actually have someone hard-of-hearing in my family and I always have felt guilty for not k on bowing much sign language. That is part of the reason I am trying to learn more.
A tip I find helpful for learning to read fingerspelling is that as the letters are coming at you, in your head, don’t say the names of the letters but instead say their sound. So for example, if someone is fingerspelling “cat”, you wouldn’t think “C-A-T” but instead think “k-ah-t”. It’s not perfect and sometimes you’ll have to readjust halfway through (e.g. for a “c”, the sound might be “k” or “s”, which you might not know till you’re deeper into the word). But either way, it’s better than thinking about the names of the letters because as the word comes together, you’re going to hear it the way the word sounds instead of as a bunch of letters said one after another.
(I’m not fluent in ASL, but learning. I think this tip that was given to me when I just started learning has really helped me so far.)
That is a great tip! I am still trying to learn ASL and I still struggle a lot with fingerspelling. I will definitely have to try practicing it this way. Thank you for the tip!
@@MoriahLilaca you’re welcome! For receptive skills, fingerspelling receptive tools have been great for me. I tried a few and the one I like best is called ASL Fingerspelling Practice (icon: 3 turquoise hands) by Steven Loria. I use this on my phone and on the desktop, I use Bill Vicars fingerspelling app on his website. Really similar interface, but Bill Vicars’ doesn’t require you to write in the answer to progress, which is nice if you don’t care about it telling you if you’re right, since much of the time I can tell if I understood it and don’t care about the score.
At college (a decade ago), I had a half hour walk from school and for a while I was fingerspelling random words from podcasts while walking. Didn’t really care if people saw. I started doing this now again. I’m starting ASL 3 (a decade later) next week, so the last few months, I have been nearly compulsively learning as much ASL as I can. :)
I will definitely gave to look at those! I am having a bit of trouble continuing to motivate myself to learn. That is part of the reason for my channel. I really appreciate all your tips. I hope all of your learning goes well! Happy signing!
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I think it would be helpful (in the future) to clarify that by “fingerspell everything” you don’t mean use fingerspelling for a full conversation. That would not be ASL.
Rather, this tip means that as you’re going about your life, find opportunities to fingerspell random things around you (or what you hear on podcasts, shows, etc).
I understood what you mean, but since many people (especially beginners or people who aren’t learning but are just curious) don’t understand the structure of ASL and can think that it’s just about representing English in signs, I think adding this extra clarification would be helpful. :)
Thank you so much for your comment! You are exactly right. I can see how it would be a little confusing if you are completely new to ASL to hear someone say fingerspell everything without clarifying that it doesn't mean that is the way to have a conversation. I definitely meant this tip to be about practicing fingerspelling different words while you are going about your day in order to become more proficient at it since it can be such a challenging thing to be comfortable with and to master.
I really appreciate your comment. Thank you for taking the time to stop by my channel and clarify something in my video that could come across as confusing.
I know a guy in my state he is completely deaf and he finger spell a while conversation 😃. He is a great speller.
@@WomenWinningTogetherNetwork That's awesome! I hope to be a much faster fingerspeller someday.
@@MoriahLilaca I understood what you meant:)
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Thank you so much for this video! I am currently learning ASL and I need some tricks to help me study better between my classes! I thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated this content, thank you very much!
I am so glad you liked it! I grew up knowing some, took a class in college, and now I am trying to teach myself. I would love to take a class again sometime if I ever have time! Keep it up!
ive been finger spelling in shcool assemby and stuff when its boring lol its real fun to practice and see if i can do it fast enough
That’s great! I need to take my own advice more and fingerspell a lot more often.
Great video I will have to start doing the sign in the mirror and record myself.
Thank you! And yes! It's really helpful to watch yourself signing.
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I taught my son as a baby, I would sign or finger spell the things he was interested in. For example if my son was hungry and wants chicken. I would sign your hungry and then do chicken sign. If you wanted milk or juice I would sign milk or juice and I would be holding these items in my hand.
That's so great! Does he still know any sign language?
@@MoriahLilaca that's a sad story the answer to your question is yes and no. He just turned 15 today matter if fact. He was very fluent in it. He picked it up really fast. However through the years his dad got mad that I was teaching him and took me to court. With the 🌍 not knowing how important signal is. The judge asked," me if he was deaf or dumb ?" Of course I said," no." There's huge benefits for kids who know more than one language. That was my reason for teaching him. And I was communicating with a crawling baby. It blew my mind. My said was communicating with before he could say momma or dada. The judge asked me what kind of mother are you. She said I am keeping him from learning how to talk. I should teach him Russian. I have never met anyone in our state that speaks Russian. His dad would smack him when he would do sign language.
@@WomenWinningTogetherNetwork I'm really sorry you have had to go through all of that. ASL is definitely a language that is important, so it's tough hearing that you didn't have any support from his dad. Thank you for sharing your story. I know that has got to be hard, but it is also important.
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They definitely are! I am by no means and instructor or fluent, but from what I know and have learned, I can tell you that they matter. Your expression can be the difference between a question and a statement or evening the meaning of the sign.
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It’s definitely hard to practice by yourself. I struggle with that too. I basically only practice with my son who isn’t even 2 years old yet! Have you tried practicing in front of a mirror so you can watch yourself sign? Something I am planning on trying to start doing is watching more videos of people telling stories using sign language. It can definitely be helpful to watch a story being told and see how much you understand. Let me know if there is anything you would like to see in my videos that would help you out! Thanks for watching!
@@MoriahLilaca thank u for your response. Ive been self learning almost 2 years. 1 hour a day. I was going to join a group but bc the pandemic happen the group closed. Im still learning bc i work in the dental field and food service and would like to communicate with everyone. I dont know anyone whose hard of hearing or deaf but i would like to be able to communicate when necessary and make them feel comfortable. I dont know if u understand my feeling.
I’m impressed that you put in an hour a day! I know that I need to put in more consistent time if I want to learn more.
I can sort of understand where you are coming from. I actually have someone hard-of-hearing in my family and I always have felt guilty for not k on bowing much sign language. That is part of the reason I am trying to learn more.