I sign with my left hand for practical reasons. Writing right-handed, if I need to sign, I will need to use my left hand or my communication is impeded.
Thank You! I have been watching your videos ever since I found out my baby granddaughter is deaf. She is 7 weeks old, so I want to make sure I learn as much as I can as soon as I can so that we can all help her to learn as she grows and so we can all communicate with one another in our family. I will say that you have been such an inspiration. I especially loved the interview you did with your parents. You are an excellent teacher and an amazing young woman!
Thank you. I just decided to learn ASL, and after watching one video I realized I was signing Left handed. I immediately researched to find out if this was ok. Your video came up. Thank goodness it is ok to be a Leftie ASL signer, because if I had to do it right handed I would probably give up before I even got started. I am sooooooo Left handed. One good thing about it is I can mirror image the person I am learning from, which might give me an advantage while learning to sign. It is the same for learning to knit as a leftie, you can mirror the person teaching you, then you just have to reverse the R's and L's in every knitting pattern for the rest of your life! No wonder Lefties are notorious for getting directions mixed up!
First, your videos are great. I know I'm alittle late but I just discovered them. I am able to follow very easily, which is saying something cause I'm alittle slow. Anyway, I was wondering if you could do a video on phrases and responses to emergency situations. For example, are you ok? Can you breathe? Where does it hurt? What's wrong? Etc. Also, a video on phrases for getting around and basic polite conversation. Thank you
i like how the video slows down when she signs for us to see, as she is fluent and moves a little too fast in regular speed for learners. very good and succinct video
Thank you so much for showing that you can sign with either dominant hand and what that looks like! I've spent forever until now, thinking that I was signing weird because I'm left-handed. And no one ever explained to me if signing in my own way that makes sense to me was wrong or not. It is extremely helpful as a new student learning ASL to finally have someone take the time to explain how the two are different and alike and that it is normal to sign either way.
Thank you for this video it has always been my dream to learn sign language and especially now because in my church there is a deaf child and I want to communicate with him
I'm left-handed but I'm right hand dominant, so naturally, I use my right hand to sign. Thank you for these videos. I'm a cashier and there's a deaf couple who come in regularly. The gentleman is very friendly, but his wife won't even look up. I'm hoping to soften her up by showing them that I am making an effort to communicate, rather than just silently complete the transaction.
is it very confusing for the person you're signing to if the hands switch? I keep mirroring the video but sometimes certain signs are more comfortable with my right hand and I just wonder if that would create a problem in actual conversation.
Why Not im right handed but learnt to sign with my left hand bc RUclips videos. I guess it’s okay as long you always use the left. They’ll think ur left handed and that’s it lol
This has been a question I've had for years and for some reason no one could ever answer me. I'm left handed and I always feared my signs, especially spelling, would appear backwards and confusing. As a result, I learned to sign the alphabet with my right hand, but I'm happy to know I can use my left. Thank you!
Thank you! I teach kinder and want to use the ASL ABCs to support struggling kids and to challenge advanced kids and I was super confused. Best note, dominant hand does the action. Thanks!
your videos are very helpful. My daughter joined ASL Club in her elementary school after school twice a week and is super excited. I have an injured finger, and wondered if it was the same signs with my left hand. Since I cant bend my index finger,.. i wondered. Thank you for clearing it up, and i look forward to more videos
thank you some much I wanted to learned how to signed because I have always work at fast food or restaurants and have customers like this and at first it was because I did not know how to have any communication whit them and I just use to give them paper and pen but know whit your videos I have learned a lot of things it super help full and you make it easy and go slow for us to learned thank you for taking the time making them and keep making this videos please you will help a lot of people to learned so that we can all communicate and get better at it .
I’ve been watching this show “Switched at Birth” which has A LOT of sign language and I think this language is SOOOO COOL I want to learn so bad, and I have off of your videos !! Thank you!!
Thank you! I'm left handed and I was wondering because I was having a harder time trying to sign with right hand and I didn't know if it was required :)
So glad to find your channel and Instagram tonight. Trying to pick up more words. A freshman just joined our church youth group who is deaf. I am a volunteer leader and hate not being able to talk to him!
I've often wondered this, as the ASL alphabet would possibly be mirrored for left handed signing. Thank you so much for clarifying this for a left-handed Educational Assistant (me) who is trying to learn ASL a bit better so I can communicate with a hard-of-hearing student!
This was very helpful! I'm pretty young and I don't interact with deaf people often, and I'm not deaf myself, but I'd like to learn how to use asl. I'm left handed and this video helped clear things up, since I would always sign with my left hand and I wasn't sure if it was okay But this video helped a lot, so thank you!
Your videos are really helpful. I like that you Slow the video down and repeat the sign! My question is the same as many of the comments here, is it confusing to switch in conversation to sign both left and right handed. I write left handed but do a lot right handed. I don't always notice that I've started signing right and then I change to left. Thanks for your help!
yeah, see, i'm left handed, but my grandmother was a teacher and she saw way too many smudged papers (when writing with the left hand, it passes over what you just wrote, so it smudges) and she made me learn to write with my right hand. but everything else i do with the left. oh well, so long as people actually understand what i'm trying to get across, i guess it's all good (:
Hi, thanks for these videos. They are easy and detailed, I love them! I'm 12 and I know nobody who is deaf or hard of hearing. I've also never met anyone but my music teacher (has a deaf cousin) who speaks in sign language (is it rude to use "speaks"?) I'm just doing this because I felt like taking up a third language before I take French in high school. This will be very helpful in the future, I know. Thanks! 👏
Also, how do you sign "I messed up" or "cancel" or any other phrase to show that you messed up on the last sentence and want to start over? Is there also a sign to show that you've finished a sentance?
Wow! That is so great to know! Maybe there's still some hope for me :) I always loved and admired sign language but since birth my whole right arm, top to fingertips has been paralyzed. I was always wondering if it makes a difference in which hand I use. If I kept signing words with my left hand (while I see everyone else signing with their right), would I be 'talking' backwards or gibberish. While it's still hard to sign words with my righty, even as a supportive hand, at least I know I *can* sign with my good hand/arm :) thanks
Thanks for showing me those videos for beginners. I aways wanted to know sighn lenguege. even if I am able to hear and speak. sorry for my bad english.
Me and you are sing language I just hope you get a lot of love and support I support and love your vids and I hope you can get 1mil subs and I think you can get that much if you keep making great vids
I required your portal link or any application have available in android. I watch your video many times. Easy to learn & understand with below subtitle. I need more videos related sign language.
Sarah Akin m right handed but learnt to sign with my left hand bc RUclips videos. I guess it’s okay as long you always use the left. They’ll think ur left handed and that’s it lol.
Question that I've definitely had answered but always forget the answer to: when signing numbers left handed would I do it exactly like it would be right handed (ex: 6-9 on R-hand goes from index to pinky so L-h would also be index to pinky) or mirrored (ex: 6-9 starts from left to right on the hand so index to pinky for R-h and pinky to index on L-h)?
If I feel more comfortable signing using my left hand even though I write with my right hand, is that okay? (Wait you answered this in the description box 😅 sorry!)
I work at a grocery store. How do you sign the words "hit or press" (for buttons), also how do you sign the words "first and second" and lastly how do you sign the phrase "Did you find everything okay?"
Lost my voice from chronic laryngitis a year ago, can still hear. Shame more people don;t know sign languge, as even after I learn it, there aren't many people that will understand me. I use an app on my phone where i type and it speaks, and it works in a pinch, but nobody wants to stay quiet tentatively waiting for me to type, they just kind of ignore whatever im "saying" and just end the convo quick and leave. If i sign, they just shrug and apologize and leave.
I want to learn sign language, but I severely broke three fingers last year on one hand and they won't fully recover, so they aren't very flexible and tend to stick out straightish, and overlap each other when I try to bend them. I'm worried it'll make my signing hard to understand. Luckily it's not my dominant hand, but I can't make a fist at all with it, only sort of a lopsided "C" shape, and my fingers overlap/cross over each other and look crooked too (they went crooked when they healed, so my middle finger points out at an angle). Am I overly worried, or is this something that's really going to make me hard to understand? Are there any ways ASL users have for signing with a broken hand? Or should I just sign something along the lines of "sorry, my right hand is disabled" so whoever I'm signing to knows why I look like I'm signing with a chicken claw 😂
Sorry for a late reply by you can use adapted sign language. Learn the sign language you are thinking of learning and finger spell words if you are not understood with your 'good' hand.
Another late reply... Um, since its not your dominant hand (the hand that you use most doing everyday tasks like brushing your teeth, writing, stirring... that sorta thing), I wouldn't worry about it too much. Truly. Really truly. I have known and talked with Deaf people who have had mishaps happen to their hands. One had his right index finger de-gloved. Just the finger. It was a horse feeding situation. Apple on hand. Finger got in the way. Yeah... he unfortunately had his dominant hand on the right. So... its kinda hard for him but he signs generally as if he still has his finger. That's just him. I understand him because I mentally fill in the finger. Another is a Deaf person afflicted with severe cerebral palsy. He can sign and make himself understood. Might also be a function of having known him since... well, forever. There's many Signers that have some... shall we say, non-standard issue hands? And they manage to make themselves understood. You'll be just fine. Good luck & Be well. 🖖
when she shows how it signing should look if you left/ right handed is that the mirrored version or the way it would look if someone right/ left handed would sign it to us?
I assume it's perfectly fine if you're capable of using either hand as the dominant one when signing, but what are the rules on switching dominant hands during conversation?
I happen to have no left/right dominance. I try to sign "right handed" but when it comes to finger-spelling, I pretty much have to use my left hand, as the right one is more arthritic! So bouncing back and forth is unavoidable.
@Alex Hoover: No. Just pick which feels more natural. If it happens that for you, right is comfy, then go right ahead and be a righty-Signer. The reverse is also true. Key here is to be _consistent_ .
I'm currently trying to learn ASL and sometimes I mix up my hands, as in I will use the right hand dominant for some signs and then the left one... would this completely throw off the other person?
I am right handed but when I learned to sign as a child the person I learned from was left handed. I am more dominant with my left hand when I sign. Now that I am trying to relearn how to sign will it matter if I sign more with my left hand than my right??
Your videos are extremely helpful, especially since I'm left handed and you're right handed. It's like looking in a mirror!
Same
Me too
I sign with my left hand for practical reasons. Writing right-handed, if I need to sign, I will need to use my left hand or my communication is impeded.
Same
Thank You! I have been watching your videos ever since I found out my baby granddaughter is deaf. She is 7 weeks old, so I want to make sure I learn as much as I can as soon as I can so that we can all help her to learn as she grows and so we can all communicate with one another in our family. I will say that you have been such an inspiration. I especially loved the interview you did with your parents. You are an excellent teacher and an amazing young woman!
Thank you.
I just decided to learn ASL, and after watching one video I realized I was signing Left handed. I immediately researched to find out if this was ok. Your video came up. Thank goodness it is ok to be a Leftie ASL signer, because if I had to do it right handed I would probably give up before I even got started. I am sooooooo Left handed. One good thing about it is I can mirror image the person I am learning from, which might give me an advantage while learning to sign. It is the same for learning to knit as a leftie, you can mirror the person teaching you, then you just have to reverse the R's and L's in every knitting pattern for the rest of your life! No wonder Lefties are notorious for getting directions mixed up!
First, your videos are great. I know I'm alittle late but I just discovered them. I am able to follow very easily, which is saying something cause I'm alittle slow. Anyway, I was wondering if you could do a video on phrases and responses to emergency situations. For example, are you ok? Can you breathe? Where does it hurt? What's wrong? Etc. Also, a video on phrases for getting around and basic polite conversation. Thank you
i like how the video slows down when she signs for us to see, as she is fluent and moves a little too fast in regular speed for learners. very good and succinct video
I like how attentive and compassionate she seems to really love teaching
Thank you so much for showing that you can sign with either dominant hand and what that looks like! I've spent forever until now, thinking that I was signing weird because I'm left-handed. And no one ever explained to me if signing in my own way that makes sense to me was wrong or not. It is extremely helpful as a new student learning ASL to finally have someone take the time to explain how the two are different and alike and that it is normal to sign either way.
Thank you for this video it has always been my dream to learn sign language and especially now because in my church there is a deaf child and I want to communicate with him
I'm left-handed but I'm right hand dominant, so naturally, I use my right hand to sign. Thank you for these videos. I'm a cashier and there's a deaf couple who come in regularly. The gentleman is very friendly, but his wife won't even look up. I'm hoping to soften her up by showing them that I am making an effort to communicate, rather than just silently complete the transaction.
is it very confusing for the person you're signing to if the hands switch? I keep mirroring the video but sometimes certain signs are more comfortable with my right hand and I just wonder if that would create a problem in actual conversation.
Skella Bella I would like to know as well
I turn my phone around so when i mimic her (if i have trouble mimicking her) I can do it as if I was watching someone to my side sign
Me too
Why Not im right handed but learnt to sign with my left hand bc RUclips videos. I guess it’s okay as long you always use the left. They’ll think ur left handed and that’s it lol
Yes I was thinking that also I know you said this comment ages ago but what if you were doing a c would you just do it the wrong way
I wish I had learned this ages ago. I was under the impression that you always had to sign right-handed, which felt really awkward. Thanks, Ashley!
Thank you for breaking down the signs in the way that you do. The repetition and the slow motion has really helped me grasp some of signs better.
This is super helpful! As a lefty who is learning ASL on my own, I was never really sure about this one
Thank you so much for all these videos, I've been wanting to learn ASL for a while now and now I can! These videos are very helpful.
Thank you so much. As a lefty & a new student to ASL I was afraid of insulting someone.
You are such a great teacher! I'm learning so fast and so much with your videos! Please don't stop making these educational videos! Pleassseeeeeee!
Thank you SO much for these videos! I am determined to learn to sign and you are helping!
I just started learning sign and your videos are SUPER helpful! Tysm for making these!
You make things so easy to understand! I became more interested in learning ASL after watching your videos. Keep up the good work!
I was just asked about this at work today. Really happy I have an answer now. Thank you so much for all the wonderful videos!
You are amazing, I'm always looking forward to new videos.
Thank you for this Vlog. That was a question that has been on my mind a while now.
This has been a question I've had for years and for some reason no one could ever answer me. I'm left handed and I always feared my signs, especially spelling, would appear backwards and confusing. As a result, I learned to sign the alphabet with my right hand, but I'm happy to know I can use my left. Thank you!
Thank you! I teach kinder and want to use the ASL ABCs to support struggling kids and to challenge advanced kids and I was super confused. Best note, dominant hand does the action. Thanks!
You are doing a great job. I am learning with your videos. Thanks!
Thank you, for these videos. They quite helpful for beginning to learn ASL.
your videos are very helpful. My daughter joined ASL Club in her elementary school after school twice a week and is super excited. I have an injured finger, and wondered if it was the same signs with my left hand. Since I cant bend my index finger,.. i wondered. Thank you for clearing it up, and i look forward to more videos
Wow! you answered the exact question I had! thank you for your videos!! big help!! :)
This video also blew my mind (in a good way of course!). Ashley you are so sweet and awesome!
thank you some much I wanted to learned how to signed because I have always work at fast food or restaurants and have customers like this and at first it was because I did not know how to have any communication whit them and I just use to give them paper and pen but know whit your videos I have learned a lot of things it super help full and you make it easy and go slow for us to learned thank you for taking the time making them and keep making this videos please you will help a lot of people to learned so that we can all communicate and get better at it .
I’ve been watching this show “Switched at Birth” which has A LOT of sign language and I think this language is SOOOO COOL I want to learn so bad, and I have off of your videos !! Thank you!!
I love this channel, you need to do more 🤗❤❤🙌🏽🙌🏽
Can't wait to see more. 👍🏻
I enjoy watching your videos; and I am an avid ASL learner. Please make more videos. You are great.
Thank you! I'm left handed and I was wondering because I was having a harder time trying to sign with right hand and I didn't know if it was required :)
So glad to find your channel and Instagram tonight. Trying to pick up more words. A freshman just joined our church youth group who is deaf. I am a volunteer leader and hate not being able to talk to him!
I've often wondered this, as the ASL alphabet would possibly be mirrored for left handed signing. Thank you so much for clarifying this for a left-handed Educational Assistant (me) who is trying to learn ASL a bit better so I can communicate with a hard-of-hearing student!
Thank you soo much for teaching and taking the time. I do need help as in im learning and these videos help.
You rock Ashley! Very helpful video.
If I am right handed, but I feel more comfortable signing with my left hand, am I allowed to?
Of course, it doesn’t matter which hand you use
@BZG of course there are no “rules” to speaking languages
No, the law clearly states to use your dominant hand else face death by firing squad
419 Wayward Kid* ok, thanks
mkr10001 😂
O.m.g! I love your tutorials. Thank you I'd love too see more. I enjoy learning sighn from you.
This was very helpful! I'm pretty young and I don't interact with deaf people often, and I'm not deaf myself, but I'd like to learn how to use asl. I'm left handed and this video helped clear things up, since I would always sign with my left hand and I wasn't sure if it was okay
But this video helped a lot, so thank you!
Ashley you’re amazing!!
Thanks for this info... I always wondered about that. I can do the alphabet but only with my right hand, because I’m right handed. Love your vids.
Your videos are really helpful. I like that you Slow the video down and repeat the sign! My question is the same as many of the comments here, is it confusing to switch in conversation to sign both left and right handed. I write left handed but do a lot right handed. I don't always notice that I've started signing right and then I change to left. Thanks for your help!
Thank you so much for the information!!
you should definitely make more videos! I think asl is so beautiful and I wanna learn!
Thank you for the help with all your videos. I am trying to learn sign to help out a friend and her daughter.
This is helpful! My friend and I are trying to learn to sign!
Thank you!! This really helped.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *blushes* I was getting a little confused. I go back and forth when I'm signing
very very good video and you are teaching well, thank you.
Thank you im left handed and trying to learn this with my mum this video helpt a lot
So, amazing I always wondered this.
i love these videos i always want to start learning asl so i can communicate with deaf people
Good i like that you do the slow motion part it helps me a lot
thank u so much and I'm 16 and it's easy and fun .Thank u once again 😊
I love these bite side videos.
thank you so much it was really helpful
yeah, see, i'm left handed, but my grandmother was a teacher and she saw way too many smudged papers (when writing with the left hand, it passes over what you just wrote, so it smudges) and she made me learn to write with my right hand. but everything else i do with the left. oh well, so long as people actually understand what i'm trying to get across, i guess it's all good (:
I would like to see you use that cool split-screen effect at 1:03 in some of your future videos.
Hi, thanks for these videos. They are easy and detailed, I love them! I'm 12 and I know nobody who is deaf or hard of hearing. I've also never met anyone but my music teacher (has a deaf cousin) who speaks in sign language (is it rude to use "speaks"?) I'm just doing this because I felt like taking up a third language before I take French in high school. This will be very helpful in the future, I know. Thanks! 👏
Also, how do you sign "I messed up" or "cancel" or any other phrase to show that you messed up on the last sentence and want to start over? Is there also a sign to show that you've finished a sentance?
I really like ur videos im gna keep trying its hard but i know im gna learn soon
Wow! That is so great to know! Maybe there's still some hope for me :) I always loved and admired sign language but since birth my whole right arm, top to fingertips has been paralyzed. I was always wondering if it makes a difference in which hand I use. If I kept signing words with my left hand (while I see everyone else signing with their right), would I be 'talking' backwards or gibberish. While it's still hard to sign words with my righty, even as a supportive hand, at least I know I *can* sign with my good hand/arm :) thanks
Thank youu this helped so much
Could you do a part 3? like sentences?
i love your videos, you are a innate teacher! make ,more videos please
happy Easter to you since missing your sign with heart Ashley
Where were you during Hurricane Harvey at least I know someone as talented as yourself would put the facts out there to help people.
Thanks for showing me those videos for beginners. I aways wanted to know sighn lenguege. even if I am able to hear and speak.
sorry for my bad english.
Me and you are sing language I just hope you get a lot of love and support I support and love your vids and I hope you can get 1mil subs and I think you can get that much if you keep making great vids
I’m left handed but I’ve been using my right hand along with the videos.
That is very good.
I required your portal link or any application have available in android. I watch your video many times. Easy to learn & understand with below subtitle. I need more videos related sign language.
omg I am the first comment!! thank u so much. these videos help ALOT!
YAY!! :-D So glad to hear the videos help!! Thanks for watching and taking the time to learn sign language!! :)
No problem! I'm only 14 so u are making it easy! thank u so much. u earned a sub!
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Kinda wish I were left-handed so I could just mirror the video!
Sarah Akin m right handed but learnt to sign with my left hand bc RUclips videos. I guess it’s okay as long you always use the left. They’ll think ur left handed and that’s it lol.
Whatever you feel comfortable with, left or right.
please make a video on the alphabet and how to use it!! thank you
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Thank you!! I am left handed..
Question that I've definitely had answered but always forget the answer to: when signing numbers left handed would I do it exactly like it would be right handed (ex: 6-9 on R-hand goes from index to pinky so L-h would also be index to pinky) or mirrored (ex: 6-9 starts from left to right on the hand so index to pinky for R-h and pinky to index on L-h)?
If I feel more comfortable signing using my left hand even though I write with my right hand, is that okay? (Wait you answered this in the description box 😅 sorry!)
Thanks alot
I work at a grocery store. How do you sign the words "hit or press" (for buttons), also how do you sign the words "first and second" and lastly how do you sign the phrase "Did you find everything okay?"
I'm deaf and learning asl and this actually helps alot (: how long does it usually take to be fluent?
Lost my voice from chronic laryngitis a year ago, can still hear. Shame more people don;t know sign languge, as even after I learn it, there aren't many people that will understand me. I use an app on my phone where i type and it speaks, and it works in a pinch, but nobody wants to stay quiet tentatively waiting for me to type, they just kind of ignore whatever im "saying" and just end the convo quick and leave. If i sign, they just shrug and apologize and leave.
Hello ... please help how to do hand for word: “I know this is love” ... thank you very much in advance ^^
Thank you I was learning right handed but left handed I thought one was suppose to sign right handed
I want to learn sign language, but I severely broke three fingers last year on one hand and they won't fully recover, so they aren't very flexible and tend to stick out straightish, and overlap each other when I try to bend them. I'm worried it'll make my signing hard to understand. Luckily it's not my dominant hand, but I can't make a fist at all with it, only sort of a lopsided "C" shape, and my fingers overlap/cross over each other and look crooked too (they went crooked when they healed, so my middle finger points out at an angle). Am I overly worried, or is this something that's really going to make me hard to understand? Are there any ways ASL users have for signing with a broken hand? Or should I just sign something along the lines of "sorry, my right hand is disabled" so whoever I'm signing to knows why I look like I'm signing with a chicken claw 😂
Sorry for a late reply by you can use adapted sign language. Learn the sign language you are thinking of learning and finger spell words if you are not understood with your 'good' hand.
Another late reply...
Um, since its not your dominant hand (the hand that you use most doing everyday tasks like brushing your teeth, writing, stirring... that sorta thing), I wouldn't worry about it too much. Truly. Really truly.
I have known and talked with Deaf people who have had mishaps happen to their hands. One had his right index finger de-gloved. Just the finger. It was a horse feeding situation. Apple on hand. Finger got in the way. Yeah... he unfortunately had his dominant hand on the right. So... its kinda hard for him but he signs generally as if he still has his finger. That's just him. I understand him because I mentally fill in the finger. Another is a Deaf person afflicted with severe cerebral palsy. He can sign and make himself understood. Might also be a function of having known him since... well, forever. There's many Signers that have some... shall we say, non-standard issue hands? And they manage to make themselves understood.
You'll be just fine. Good luck & Be well. 🖖
when she shows how it signing should look if you left/ right handed is that the mirrored version or the way it would look if someone right/ left handed would sign it to us?
I am right-handed but my left hand is more dominate and comfortable for me to use when I sign
I love your vids so much 💜
YAY!! :-D That makes me so happy!! Glad you love!! Thanks for taking the time to learn!! :)
I actually download all your videos via RUclips Red
Really u r very helpful 💟
Ashley Clark Fry I have a hard time paying attention to the lessons because you are so pretty.
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I assume it's perfectly fine if you're capable of using either hand as the dominant one when signing, but what are the rules on switching dominant hands during conversation?
I happen to have no left/right dominance. I try to sign "right handed" but when it comes to finger-spelling, I pretty much have to use my left hand, as the right one is more arthritic! So bouncing back and forth is unavoidable.
I learned form right handed signs so I sign left handed but I'm right handed. Signing left is just more comfortable to me l.
i’m left handed and in all the vids i see the person uses their right hand... i wanted to know if it mattered. thank you!
@Alex Hoover: No. Just pick which feels more natural. If it happens that for you, right is comfy, then go right ahead and be a righty-Signer. The reverse is also true. Key here is to be _consistent_ .
so I'm right handed. when I watch your videos do I mirror or do I do the opposite?
I'm currently trying to learn ASL and sometimes I mix up my hands, as in I will use the right hand dominant for some signs and then the left one... would this completely throw off the other person?
I am right handed but when I learned to sign as a child the person I learned from was left handed. I am more dominant with my left hand when I sign. Now that I am trying to relearn how to sign will it matter if I sign more with my left hand than my right??
O thank goodness im a lefty i thought i was doing it wrong the whole time xD
I have a question. I write with my right hand but feel more comfortable signing with my left. Should I just practice with my right more