Hello ASL Heroes!!! Hey, I could really use your help. If you’ve enjoyed having access to an expert in ASL you can help me continue my work for you. A small monthly donation from you would instantly make a big difference here at the studio because teachers don’t earn much and I could use some help paying for server and domain hosting for Lifeprint.com. Right now you can help out a humble (not to mention kind, caring, generous, compassionate, helpful, friendly, fair, and hard-working) ASL teacher -- just go here and a few clicks later you too will be a true “ASL Hero!” www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=64QMBRBXQSV6G Thanks! - Dr. Bill p.s. Want to have your very own USB drive with four semesters worth of ASL instruction (that’s the equivalent of two years of colleges classes) for just $79.95? See "SuperUSB" in the ASLUniversity bookstore at: lifeprint.com/bookstore/bookstore.htm Take care and love to you all. :)
Thanks so much Dr. Bill this is what I have always wanted to learn and I am learning it well. p.s. I can talk to people and you know what? they understand me this is really great whenever I see people who sign I just get right into it and they love it. taking your classes have open up a new world for me.
Thank you Dr. Bill. I am advancing well from your lessons. I get 100% on every video quiz. Before going to these videos I first make sure that I have memorized every sign and phrase of the lesson, then while watching these videos I cover your monitor with my hand so that I can only see the signing. If I have to read the monitor to understand the sign then I am not learning. It has been working well.
Oh! Lots of new posts, thanks, Bill! Look forward to watching them. They keep my ASL up to scratch whilst living in UK and not using it. Wish I could attend your school! take care
I love your channel and these videos! My only thing (Which you might not even be able to control) Is that I would love subtitles for the in-between conversations, as I am not that fluent so even with context clues, it is hard to follow.
Maybe someday. For now the approach I recommend is to simply keep moving on to the next video and the next. It is okay to miss the little side conversations as long as you get the main vocabulary. Some people get to the end and re-watch the series and find that they are magically able to pick up the side conversations the second time around.
If I don't understand the side conversations, I replay them. If I still don't understand, I slow down the video speed (click on the "gear" icon) to 50% and watch it (sometimes it takes more than once to finally understand). About 90% of the time I can figure out what it says. If I still don't understand it, I chock it up as a realistic experience....since I'm a beginner, when I communicate with others in sign language, I won't pick up everything they say and the conversation continues to go on.
You can still see the letters. You just see them from the side. Do you think in the real world when we are standing around in a group of Deaf people that you only see fingerspelling from straight on? If the person is standing on our right we see it from their left side. If the person is standing on our left we see it from their right side. If the person is sitting in in the front seat of the car and we are in the back seat we see the spelling from behind. So...you can either complain about not seeing the letters from straight on -- or you can set your mind to using the opportunity to practice "real world" type receptive fingerspelling. I'm not trying to be "harsh" here in my reply. I'm just pointing out how it is in real life. In that particular video there is a whole classroom full of ASL students in the studio (in-person) audience. Many of them are sitting further to my right than the camera. They actually "choose" their own seats and many prefer to sit there even when there are other seats available. I do appreciate your comment though since it has convinced me that I need to make a video of fingerspelling with my hand facing directly away from the camera -- thus providing students a tool to practice catching fingerspelling from an "extreme" angle.
Oh, hey, if you mean the colored streak down the left-hand side of the Powerpoint -- that was an attempt (fail) at being cool. I should never make any attempt at coolness -- it just doesn't work out. Heh.
+paula aponte If you can't understand it, then you need to review fingerspelling before watching the lessons this far into it. A lot of the fingerspelling is done slowly and he gives contextual clues to help figure it out. That is part of the language.
Kaity is right. Fingerspelling is hard for me to read, a lot of people spell fast, but it's all part of the learning process. If you're having trouble still, go back to the first two semesters, or try aslpro.com, they have a fingerspelling exercise thing. I think Dr. Bill does too, check out his website lifeprint.com, it's amazing.
Hello ASL Heroes!!!
Hey, I could really use your help.
If you’ve enjoyed having access to an expert in ASL you can help me continue my work for you.
A small monthly donation from you would instantly make a big difference here at the studio because teachers don’t earn much and I could use some help paying for server and domain hosting for Lifeprint.com.
Right now you can help out a humble (not to mention kind, caring, generous, compassionate, helpful, friendly, fair, and hard-working) ASL teacher -- just go here and a few clicks later you too will be a true “ASL Hero!”
www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=64QMBRBXQSV6G
Thanks!
- Dr. Bill
p.s. Want to have your very own USB drive with four semesters worth of ASL instruction (that’s the equivalent of two years of colleges classes) for just $79.95? See "SuperUSB" in the ASLUniversity bookstore at:
lifeprint.com/bookstore/bookstore.htm
Take care and love to you all.
:)
Thank you for posting these videos. It's been almost a year since I self-study online. I am learning a lot each day.
You're so funny, Dr. Bill. I love your lessons because you're such a great teacher and you have a great sense of humor. Thank you so much!
Thanks so much Dr. Bill this is what I have always wanted to learn and I am learning it well. p.s. I can talk to people and you know what? they understand me this is really great whenever I see people who sign I just get right into it and they love it. taking your classes have open up a new world for me.
Thank you Dr. Bill. I am advancing well from your lessons. I get 100% on every video quiz. Before going to these videos I first make sure that I have memorized every sign and phrase of the lesson, then while watching these videos I cover your monitor with my hand so that I can only see the signing. If I have to read the monitor to understand the sign then I am not learning. It has been working well.
Oh! Lots of new posts, thanks, Bill! Look forward to watching them. They keep my ASL up to scratch whilst living in UK and not using it. Wish I could attend your school! take care
thank you Dr Bill .
Thank you so much for making these videos. I am learning so very much from your hard work. Thank you!!!
I love your channel and these videos! My only thing (Which you might not even be able to control) Is that I would love subtitles for the in-between conversations, as I am not that fluent so even with context clues, it is hard to follow.
Maybe someday. For now the approach I recommend is to simply keep moving on to the next video and the next. It is okay to miss the little side conversations as long as you get the main vocabulary. Some people get to the end and re-watch the series and find that they are magically able to pick up the side conversations the second time around.
If I don't understand the side conversations, I replay them. If I still don't understand, I slow down the video speed (click on the "gear" icon) to 50% and watch it (sometimes it takes more than once to finally understand). About 90% of the time I can figure out what it says. If I still don't understand it, I chock it up as a realistic experience....since I'm a beginner, when I communicate with others in sign language, I won't pick up everything they say and the conversation continues to go on.
Love all your videos!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Holly. I am fine. India 🇮🇳🤝 thanks you
nice lessons
9:46 I wonder if you were talking about stinky tofu!
It was "natto" -- fermented soybeans.
thanks for teaching this language now i can get a girlfriend
You might also need to shave your head bald and wear black.
Finger spelling to the person sitting opposite you leaves the Computer views out in the dark (so to speak_ We can't see the letters.
You can still see the letters. You just see them from the side.
Do you think in the real world when we are standing around in a group of Deaf people that you only see fingerspelling from straight on?
If the person is standing on our right we see it from their left side.
If the person is standing on our left we see it from their right side.
If the person is sitting in in the front seat of the car and we are in the back seat we see the spelling from behind.
So...you can either complain about not seeing the letters from straight on -- or you can set your mind to using the opportunity to practice "real world" type receptive fingerspelling.
I'm not trying to be "harsh" here in my reply. I'm just pointing out how it is in real life.
In that particular video there is a whole classroom full of ASL students in the studio (in-person) audience. Many of them are sitting further to my right than the camera. They actually "choose" their own seats and many prefer to sit there even when there are other seats available.
I do appreciate your comment though since it has convinced me that I need to make a video of fingerspelling with my hand facing directly away from the camera -- thus providing students a tool to practice catching fingerspelling from an "extreme" angle.
@@sign-language thank you for the reply.
what's wrong with the monitor?
I think it was just a bad pin in the cable.
Bill Vicars thanks. at first I thought someone had drawn on it with a sharpie.
Oh, hey, if you mean the colored streak down the left-hand side of the Powerpoint -- that was an attempt (fail) at being cool. I should never make any attempt at coolness -- it just doesn't work out. Heh.
How'd you get Mary Kate Olsen to agree to be in your video?
Connections baby, connections.
@@sign-language HA! I don't doubt it!
The John Wick of teaching ASL
Just don't steal my car or kill my dog.
you should type more often on the screen because some people can't understand fingerspelling in ASL
+paula aponte
If you can't understand it, then you need to review fingerspelling before watching the lessons this far into it. A lot of the fingerspelling is done slowly and he gives contextual clues to help figure it out. That is part of the language.
Kaity is right. Fingerspelling is hard for me to read, a lot of people spell fast, but it's all part of the learning process. If you're having trouble still, go back to the first two semesters, or try aslpro.com, they have a fingerspelling exercise thing. I think Dr. Bill does too, check out his website lifeprint.com, it's amazing.
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