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Yesterday I was signing rather aggressively with my friend and I hit myself in the nose so hard my eyes were watering. Brave signers, be careful out there, this is dangerous business. Keep your fingernails short.
Haha, the other day I was signing in class and I hit my hand on the desk really hard. Dangerous business, yo.
Totally. Perhaps this is a new topic for Rikki to tackle; "ASL Accidents". Has anyone ever knocked over their coffee while signing America while sitting at their desk? I have.
I've injured myself and others when signing. Glad I'm not the only one!!
How many of us have sent our glasses flying? ;D
I have done that a few times.
I remember my wrist cracking quite a bit with fingerspelling. my deaf professor said he doesn't spell every letter, he thinks "eh just fill in the blanks you get the point"
My biggest mistake that continue to make even after years of learning ASL is mixing up SORRY and PLEASE. So frustrating!! I always pick the wrong one no matter what.
The way I finally figured them out was please is like beg you have to have open hand to receive and sorry for punch closed hand hope it helps
I do the same thing. I will try to sign please then realize I am signing sorry.
I mix them up too but I feel with the difference in mouthing the word, they generally understand what I meant
Yeah, this is dumb but the way I remember is:please slap me. Sorry you punched me.
I always mix up "new" and "easy." Every single time...
bookishletters I legit did this today! In class! And used cop, when I was trying to say church. Oops.
No one else ever seems to have this problem but for me it has ALWAYS been remembering the difference between the signs for church, chocolate and computer. I always get those three mixed up and I'm rather fluent in ASL at this point after studying it for 3 years, so that's always fun.
I teach ASL with mnemonics. Think of "church" as C on a rock, "chocolate" is in a circle, and "computer" is up the arm like long :)
Rikki don't worry. I was born deaf and still sometime get myself confuse with asl. I works at the animal hospital. "Sweet" and "diabetic" are set same signs. Same for "forget" and "because ". I have no idea how to explain that to someone who want to learn asl from me. I have to be sure to use my mouth movement to make it clear for the person. So you aren't the only one. I spells too fast for the other person to understand me however when person spells to me, easy for me to understand. All good, as long as u try and practice. Also social with more deaf people helps! Take my words for that. Keep it up. I also love to help correct other person s signs. ❤️
Veuy good video, I thorght, Uikki :D
Hahaha, nice. :)
Hahaha this is so relatable! FEW is signed the same way in STS (Swedish sign language) and it took me for sure 8 months to do it good-enough-smooth. (and I study sign language daily for at least 6 hours!) I mostly mix up my B/D and A/S when I fingerspell ASL, since american D is the Swedish B.
Palm facing out for "W"
I completely relate. I always mess up while signing my name. I get the F and D mixed up a lot, so instead of signing D-E-A-N-N-A, I sign F-E-A-N-N-A... Quite frustrating 😂
I mix up week and fall in love! That one is a awkward :o happy international week of the deaf, Ukki!
Ha, that damn pinky. I know those feels. I don't know if any signs are hard to get yet. But Yaeh finger spelling. And I believe that it is palm forward. I have only been seriously started back with signing a few months.
I always confuse 'cute' vs 'sweet' (tasting), and 'really' vs 'ready'.
The hardest sign for me was "hotel" when I first learned it. Also, "gender." Those both, my hands ust don't want to be in that position.
OMG YES! Hotel is so hard!
Uikki...I had to cheat & look about the W. it's "palm outwardly facing" I cannot fingerspell worth a crud either. My fingers hate one another lol I recently spoke to a teacher from the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind about that problem. She suggested using my non dominant hand to spell with, as it's not used to doing "other things". I'll try anything once!!!
@@txpacket (Wow, this was from a while ago!) I've found that I'm much more fluid at fingerspelling with my non-doninant hand. How'd it work out for you?
it's ok if your "i" sticks up when you're finger spelling your name. it's good for blending hand shapes.
I have flexible fingers and hands so I don't struggle forming any signs that I can think of. However, I struggle with switching up 7 and 8 SO MUCH. Both reading someone sign them and signing myself. It's similar to how I always have to pause to determine right from left. They are just too close!
Brother/Sister, Daughter/Son, I don't know why but all the gender specific signs I mix up with their counterpart semi-frequently, especially those two. I know the rule well, above the nose male, below female, yet if I'm signing a full sentence I mess up often.
Aaahhh I feel you on the finger spelling so much! I sometimes get such a pressure to sign quickly when I'm fingerspelling as well so sometimes my letters won't form correctly (like I'll sometimes not put my thumb down when I'm signing I so it looks like I'm signing y instead.)
I don't know if you are still struggling with these things but here is what I found helped me with fingerspelling. usually when I am going somewhere in the car or walking or whenever it think about it I fingerspell any word I see. it doesn't matter if I know a sign for that word I fingerspell it anyway (then do the sign too just for practice if it is not one I use often). doing this I focused on spelling the word completely right not on how fast I could do it. so if I messed up I would start over and do it until it was right. the more i did this the better I got at fingerspelling in conversations. I struggled with fingerspelling for nearly 13 years before I tried this (it didn't help that I would avoid fingerspelling as much as possible before practicing this way) now in the past 2 years or so I have gotten so much more comfortable with fingerspelling that I use it often in conversations. I am still not perfect at it but I still practice and get better. hope this helps
Thanks for sharing! FEW is tough for me too. The awkwardness and mixed up signs will become fewer and fewer the longer you use it and the more you use it. You should take a trip to Gallaudet and vlog it!
Your shirt makes me happy. Matthew Maxey is champ. Love your videos too, it's really cool you do advocacy work like sending letters about craptions!
Remembering the facial expressions for need/should/have-to
Yes! FEW (so hard to sign that word for some reason), and fingerspelling is a major struggle for me, too. Love this video!
As for the "I" many people have problems with things like that in their name and it can become part of how you spell your name like someone name "Emily" has the "ILY" most of them just "E-M-!,,!/" for their name. You are doing great keep it up.
I'm just a super novice, but I have trouble with "explain" vs. "story" vs. "number," as well as "street" vs. "focus." You know. Pedantic stuff. Also, I appreciate your fingerspelling! It's something I'm able to follow. Thank you!
I've only been learning ASL for a few weeks, but fingerspelling is DEFINITELY a struggle. Both reading and signing as quickly as others.
It will come!
How would you sign that?
Take a fingerspelling class at your local university! Fingerspelling takes practice and you need to learn how to do it right before you form too many habits that make it harder for you. For instance your bouncing your hand when you fingerspell and it’s much clearer to read when you don’t move your hand. These are things I learned in class. I think it would really help you!
I'm really enjoying these videos about sign language and deaf culture. I just started learning ASL this semester and I've been binge watching your videos. I only know one person who is hard of hearing (a kid I coach) and so its really helpful to see videos like this so I can watch people communicate (and of course cause I enjoy your content.)
It makes me sad that people don't caption their content. I do for all my videos and it takes like 20 minutes tops.
Keep up the great videos :)
Fingerspelling getting easier. "W" doesn't always hurt. My thumb tends to stay in the A position when I am spelling "I". I wish the receptive was coming along as fast as the fingerspelling.
One of the things I've been taught about signing is that catching EVERY ONE sign doesn't matter that much, especially fingerspelling.
Like, listening to English I maybe get 60% of the actual words, but my brain fills in the rest almost before I notice I'm having to fill it in (is that a me thing or is that normal? Either way, here's hoping it makes sense lol).
I've been told it's the same with ASL. No one sees EVERY letter. But there are only two "down" letters - P & Q. So if someone turns their hand down, you know it's one of those. There are a few "up" letters - B, D, F, etc. so if someone's hand is up, you know it's one of those. Same for the rest - combine that knowledge with context and it's a lot easier to see what someone is spelling that taking one letter at a time.
I'm pretty new to ASL, I've been learning for a year ish, so I'm not 100% sure if that's how it works for everyone, but the video had a lot of agreement in the comments so I thought I'd share in case it was helpful. 😊
Rikki a trick for which way the "W" goes well for most all your letters always palm out or away from the signer. Hope that helps. Maybe for rules and reason rules are on a list like laws will help to keep them straight.
Practice! Practice! Practice! One way I practiced finger spelling was spelling out whatever was on my mind. If I was nervous about something or if I was trying to remember something, I would finger spell it. I can now finger spell almost fluently. (Hearing person learning ASL)
Great video! Fingerspelling was hard for me too! I once thought someone made a mistake of saying ok. But I spelled it K O. So funny when she told me!
The way I was taught to remember the sign for rule was to think of it like I'm pointing out rules on a list. Idk if that'll be useful to you, but in case it is, there you go!
And you're reminding me I need to go edit the craptions RUclips will have given my latest video.
And all I can do is spell with a few words in between... you are so cool. Much love.
Thank you so much for this video! I've been learning ASL for a while now and fingerspelling gives me so much trouble (I tend to skip letters if I try signing fast). It's encouraging to know I'm not the only one!
Keep your pinky accent. I like it!!! I have a small one. It's unique :)
Geez..... For me it's 1)FSP long words like equivalent 2) a sign sign would be "time run out"
I personally hate introducing myself too. With a name like "Lauren," you got the U-R mix up followed by the E (which usually ends up looking like a double z since I just signed the R) followed by the N which makes the E all the more unclear. Within the last six months, I've recently tried turing the U around so my palm faces me then turn the R back out so my palm is away from me and I think it makes it look so much clearer. I only do it for my name though, no other fingerspelled words with a UR.
The hardest for me is when ASL abbreviated words like "high school". And also ASL there is alot of slang. There is an idea of two videos you could do. One on abbreviated words like High School, and the second video could be on ASL Slang Words. I would find that, as someone that is still new to ASL, very helpful.
A good way to get used to using "few" is to practice making the letter A facing you and then open your fingers and drag your thumb down across the bottom parts of your fingers before stopping with your thumb resting on the bottom of your pinky.
OH MY GOD BLESS YOU
I have the hardest problem with "neat" and "sweet" and also "candy" and "apple".
As a person who is currently hard of hearing and has been slowly going deaf over the course of my life I can really relate to your struggles with learning ASL. I try so hard, but I keep messing things up. I just hope I am fluent by the time my hearing is completely unusable to me for communication.
Been trying to learn more. You're so good... the Rrr letter. I struggle with going from p to q
chocolate, church, coffee, and french kiss. Those get me hung up...
About #1 many people have trouble with that one.
My hardest sign is NERVES as in the body. I don't always make that as clear as they should be.
The hardest sign for me is "support"!!! I'm getting a little better at it, but it still usually looks like some weird combination of "work" and "make"!!!
I struggle with that sign too! One time I signed it wrong and my friends still remind me, but at least I'm not alone!
The sign "back" is so so hard for me to sign! (Like back as in "come back here" not as in the opposite of your chest)
I tend to confuse the signs for nice and paper. I'm sure there are more lol but I can't think of any others. Oh, one time in my ASL class, I meant to sign airplane but it was actually the sign for BS. At least it was in a classroom and not somewhere else because that would have been super embarrassing.
As a new signer there's a lot of aphasia that I had to practice out of myself, like when noticing that some of the letters actually looked like the printed letters, therefore the rest of the letters should look like themselves as well, either way, someone gets the aphasia, and it ends up being me. Also I'm an extremely visual person so i usually forget the word and remember the sign, which I can't search because I can't put my arm in the search box. Oh, that's what the box was for in DUNE~~
IM THE SAME WITH THE PINKY! Also, I will sometimes accidentally just add in another letter to the word I'm fingerspelling. I have absolutely no idea why tho.
love these types of videos
I CONSTANTLY get g and h confused because they're so close! M, n, and t get fumbled on my fingers, too.
I always get signs with similar hand shapes confused; football, wrestling, machine etc. also when finger spelling to someone else your palm orientation is always out. And I've never seen that sign for a few...maybe in my area it's a little bit different. But where I am from it's a 10 hand shape and your thumb flicks the pointer finger a few time. Anyways, thoroughly enjoy your asl vlogs (really any of your videos in general).
Dylan D'Angelo yes I’ve seen few that way
Few is really hard for me too! And fingerspelling. I'm getting better but for me, it is mostly a speed thing.
I tried to learn some ASL without any formal instruction so I mainly learn individual words but I think that the hardest word I ever tried to learn was blueberry.
I always mix up finger spelling! I practice often, like when i'm walking around I see people I know and try to spell their names, or signs on the road, and practice my alphabet all the time, but when it comes down to it i mix up a lot of letters...especially 's' 'a' 't' since those are all pretty similar :(
"Few" isn't so much your thumb going across your fingertips as it is just kind of opening your hand one finger at a time. It was explained to me like you have a handful of seeds and you're slowly letting them fall out one by one. www.handspeak.com/word/search/index.php?id=780
I used to mix up the letters F and D. I also used to get confused how to count 6-9. I'd do it backwards until I realized you're moving toward your thumb, which is 10.
Mine is finger spelling. My mom wants to learn ASL now, an I'm going to help teach her the alphabet 😭😂 I also have issues with letter direction. 👏 thank you for captions 💓and for bring an advocate.
Fingerspelling! My letter get mixed up but then my teacher said it was fine to miss letters because people can fill in the blanks
Could you do a video in deaf people who are also missing fingers or hands? It's interesting how adaptive the sign languages can be.
I'm a bit late to comment but I'm watching all of your videos in ASL as I'm learning ASL! So far, the hardest sign for me is "run" (the placement is so confusing to me). I also struggle a little with finger spelling; I get D and F mixed up in my head a lot. As for reading, I sometimes have a hard time reading finger spelling and numbers, because everyone does it just a little bit differently.
Fingerspelling is always hard, even for deaf person grew up fluently sign ASL. I do have the same problem with pinky fingers. Or some word I would end up with "muscle memory" to add some letter that are not necessary to add like er, y, ist, etc. Can't help it sometimes.
Hahaha me too with the finger spelling. My name is Katherine, which is long and annoying to spell, so I just decided to start going by Kat to make it easier :)
For me the hardest was signing in pse "I know you have dad issues"
I was trying to learn a song, and that one part was driving me crazy
Haha few was such a hard sign for me for the longest time! I do okay with it at this point, so there's hope. I have a hard time with today and now because one of the fingers on my left hand won't stay down no matter what I do! It confuses people, but there's nothing I can do about it.
I get the signs for school and collage mixed up a lot. I also accidentally sign wolf when I am trying to sign sleepy.
I keep accidentally scratching and poking myself. My pinkie finger also gives me trouble when finger spelling.
I've been taking ASL classes for over a year and luckily I have an easy first name to fingerspell when introducing myself... Other things, not so much haha
The hard letters for me are O and C. Two of my students have problrms with R and T. Also F and D. A few of my students have problems with that!
Finger spelling is really hard for me too. I can't think of how to spell words and the letter sign fast enough to keep the conversation from slowing waaay down
And when someone spells something to me, I couldn't tell ya what they said until they do it 3 times
I’ve heard from others that you always try to finger spell with your wrist(inside of palm) showing :)
Awesome representing that Deafinetely Dope shirt XD
Few is "w" palm out. Not dead but taking ASL . My hands hurt too and for me fingerspelling is hard bc I'm dyslexic lol
Someone fingerspelled their name " Austin ." Thought it was A-I-S-U-T-N , I kept signing " what???" Then finally he fingerspelled super slooow .
I used to confuse the sign for trouble and problem a lot
ASL finger spelling just seems really difficult. I get that it's good because it's one handed, but it all just looks so similar to me. I'm used to Auslan where all the finger spelling is two-handed, and basically all the signs are too.
Im bad a finger spelling. My hand hates "i"s. My thumb never wants to go in so every "i" looks like a "y" when I finger spell…
I'm trying to learn myself some Dutch signs but Fibromyalgia makes my fingers so stiff it's nearly impossible sometimes...
I know some basic dutch signs and i mess up the fingerspelling too if i try to spell
I get mixed up on a lot of the signs in the comments. Also, fingerspelling sucks! It's so hard, especially with arthritis - OUCH! I finally learned 'FEW' when I realized the movement is like throwing dice over-handed (with your palm up).
Finger spelling is hard for me too, both spelling it and understanding when others spell. I think its mostly because i have a hard time spelling words out unless i'm writing them down. I also have a floating finger issue mostly when i try to sign something with a Y hand shape my ring finger just wont go all the say down :(
This is so relatable
I’m still in ASL 1 but yes!! Finger spelling can be the worst. I can spell pretty quickly if I don’t think about it, but my receptive skills are crap still. Also, my teacher tried teaching us the sign for “Wild” and I can’t. I just can’t. My hand won’t allow it lol
I get candy cute and cool all mixed up every time
Very interesting and true!
For me, it’s hardest remembering the difference between similar signs… like PROBLEM, DIFFICULT, HARD… CHURCH, CHOCOLATE, and COMPUTER… oh my god the similarities of TAKE-CARE-OF and WHAT-KIND always confuse me lol. Oh, and ARRIVE, THANK YOU, and GOOD are all far too similar for my tiny brain. Sometimes people sign ARRIVE with a circular movement but than I just get it mixed up with ALL! ANY, ON (as in turn on), TEN and OTHER…. Geez! I can’t catch a break…..
Ignore that I said than instead of then… I just committed a grave grammar sin
lmao no grammar judgment over here!
I'm learning sign and I have trouble with need and should,they look the same!
Fingerspelling is sort of hard for me, too-or, understanding it is more accurate. I understand a lot of signs, but fingerspelling is tricky for me. Granted, I’ve only been learning ASL for about 4 and a half months, but it’s still a tad frustrating.
I struggling with fingerspelling so much. Both as the reciever and the speller.
At least you can sign, Rikki. I don't. I admit I've not been motivated to learn. I'll go "I should practice my signing" and I don't 😐
Props to you for signing 😊
I have the same trouble with my pinky!
I have problems when someone finger spells. I don't "see" the word until I fingerspell it a couple of times. I also have problems signing "few" too.
Finger spelling is really difficult for me too, my hands just tend to do something else unless I practice a specific word. Certain letters just don't transition well for me.
I can finger spell fluently...but reading it is a struggle. Also I mix up every and most
The thing you said about cutting off your own pinkie got me thinking-- what is communication like for d/Deaf and HoH people who don't have full range of motion in their arms or hands, or were born with deformities in the hands? Maybe this is just due to a lack of d/Deaf and HoH experiences being represented in general, but it's not something I've ever heard anything about, and it's an experience I would be interested to know more about.
We have ways of working around it and Deaf friends and family well Deaf community is usually extremely understanding. DPAN has a music video "It's Time" by "Imagine Dragons" that has someone like you are talking about ruclips.net/video/v2_WOICgKDY/видео.html
Dammit you now confused me in w when I knew which way it was
I always mix up really and ready lol
When I don't sign much and I'm with my deaf friends it's very hard to comprehend since I'm mostly oral.
The pinky finger also gives me problems when finger spelling. I have to be really slow.
I hate signing "overslept" I ALWAYS get it wrong.
Then don't oversleep ;)