I’m so glad you posted this. I started learning ASL from RUclips and the only ones I picked up (with signs) was FISH and CHA. It’s been confusing and this really helped clarify.
Thanks so much for the comment! So glad its what you were looking for. On my page, I have 5 videos that relate to Mouth Morphemes and Deaf Slang (and another 5 on ASL Poetry/Song vocabulary, but its really just signs that one should know) Many find it useful for advance ASL concepts and vocabulary! Subscribe so you dont up and coming videos and to show your support! Thank you for having me be a part of your ASL journey, Best wishes to you.....
And holy moly bet you did great too! :) Hows your learning coming along? If you liked the advanced slang, check out the mouth morphemes and poetry videos.. they have the cool stuff that is not usually in vocabulary lessons. :) Here is part 1, (careful the volume is kinda loud in the beginning.. I was learning. Lol) ruclips.net/video/TTK4UxE_qhM/видео.html
As I’ve been seeing more ASL translators in the media, I’ve wondered why their mouth moved. You’ve really helped me understand why and see how useful it is! Wish I stuck with ASL when I took it in HS. But then again, I am struggling to get back into Spanish lol.
Well hey! Give yourself credit… here you are again trying to pick up the skills ya got and learning as you go! Thanks for coming back to learn. Have fun with learning! Add some mouth movements… I dare ya! ;)
Hi, is there a song or sequence used to teach mouth morphemes to connect them to signs? Something like the song "Witch Doctor" but would count more directly as exercise, practice, learning. What are your thoughts?
Wow, I had to check out the song since I thought I did not know what it was. The mouth morphemes express "feelings, size, emotions, distance, more of adverbs, ajectivies" and not actual sounds. However, this reminded me of the movie "Children of A Lesser God" and one of the actors is a speech therapist (which many Deaf people have growing up while in school) and he uses a song much like "Witch Doctor" for students to learn the mouthing, feeling/vibrations of speech. Check this song from a clip of the movie out: ruclips.net/video/RWguqJzbSsY/видео.html. Similar to Dr. Seus stories.. they are for the "verbal" audience and not really a Deaf/ASL thing. Hope this helps!
Oh, the music reminds me to tell you that hard of hearing people such as myself are much more deaf to speech than we are to the accompanying music. In other words, for us in particular, the music greatly overrides the spoken words. Until recently I thought that it was just bad sound mixing from the movies I was watching, but it turns out it's me.
Hello Thriving in Amber, as a CODA, I struggle with "auditory processing"; especially music. I cant seem to hear words and mainly focus on the beats. I totally get this frustration. Have you tried to do the "voices off" (mute the sound) option? Its great for receptive practice. Trying to adapt and accommodate for so many learning styles and your feedback means alot! :)
Hi, I have a more general processing overload, with six hundred vision, hyperacusis, and bass sensitivity, and all my two hour long college tests were really fun, being the only one walking out of them totally drained with my hair so badly messed up, I should have seen it as a sign or something, but I do now, and that has to be good enough. I watched a ton of Bill Vicars videos and they have no sound, which helped me see that you don't need sound to break into ASL having learned to optimize language vocally, but it's still a long path. When finding out from a hearing test how curtailed my range was, I decided to train myself to adjust for bike riding with earplugs to prepare for the eventuality of becoming deaf, and while I know deafness usually doesn't work that way, last year I was exposed to a loud sound that completely deafened one side for something like a day and a half. It's really interesting to feel sounds instead of hearing them, and thinking about all my recent experiences while learning ASL, I've gained a lot of understanding. It helps connect my brain to the rest of me better, and in so many ways I'm sharper and better for it~
Is there a place to find a lot of spatial modifiers for signs, like "for a long time" is making heavy circles with the sign while looking tired and having the TH morpheme and even shifting across during the sign. Or are spatial adjustments just connected with their respective morphemes? A lot of my failure in reading sign is it being too fast to analyze and process into something I'm used to, which means I have to practice to become used to it in that form. Also the subtleties can throw me off, like the spatial modifications, and fluent shortcuts. But there's hope for me yet in identifying these things in such specific terms~
Can you provide more in depth videos on MM. Perhaps providing some way to intuitively understand MM. For instance, PEY (I think) is used for TEND TO or TICKETED. In my mind those 2 things aren't connected. So, what does PEY mean?
PEY is used for TEND-to ("ping" or "bing" is also used). Mouth Morphemes are a part of the Non Manual Signals to emphasize or to bring greater meaning to a word. Some consider them "slang" since they are not a part of the English language... For example: Mouth Morphemes "LRLR" you can sign this with LOOK-at as in LOOK OVER-THERE HURRY!!!!! Instead of signing HURRY, you would use the sign LOOK-at and your mouth would move "LRLR" (tongue up and down) to emphasize "Hurry up and look over there". I hope this makes sense. So PEY is a mouth morpheme/movement to bring "Intonation" of a sort. I hope this makes sense. :) Best wishes!
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I’m so glad you posted this. I started learning ASL from RUclips and the only ones I picked up (with signs) was FISH and CHA. It’s been confusing and this really helped clarify.
Thanks so much for the comment! So glad its what you were looking for. On my page, I have 5 videos that relate to Mouth Morphemes and Deaf Slang (and another 5 on ASL Poetry/Song vocabulary, but its really just signs that one should know) Many find it useful for advance ASL concepts and vocabulary! Subscribe so you dont up and coming videos and to show your support! Thank you for having me be a part of your ASL journey, Best wishes to you.....
Holy moly that was great!
And holy moly bet you did great too! :) Hows your learning coming along? If you liked the advanced slang, check out the mouth morphemes and poetry videos.. they have the cool stuff that is not usually in vocabulary lessons. :) Here is part 1, (careful the volume is kinda loud in the beginning.. I was learning. Lol) ruclips.net/video/TTK4UxE_qhM/видео.html
As I’ve been seeing more ASL translators in the media, I’ve wondered why their mouth moved. You’ve really helped me understand why and see how useful it is! Wish I stuck with ASL when I took it in HS. But then again, I am struggling to get back into Spanish lol.
Well hey! Give yourself credit… here you are again trying to pick up the skills ya got and learning as you go! Thanks for coming back to learn. Have fun with learning! Add some mouth movements… I dare ya! ;)
I love that your backgrounds on the thumbnails are a different colours depending on the type of video 👍🏼!
Quite cool you caught that!!! Sometimes I think I did that for myself. Hehehe stayed tuned for the new this summer "purple background and thumbnails"!
It might help me that i kinda already do some if this with my face for these kinds of things😅
Hi, is there a song or sequence used to teach mouth morphemes to connect them to signs? Something like the song "Witch Doctor" but would count more directly as exercise, practice, learning. What are your thoughts?
Wow, I had to check out the song since I thought I did not know what it was. The mouth morphemes express "feelings, size, emotions, distance, more of adverbs, ajectivies" and not actual sounds. However, this reminded me of the movie "Children of A Lesser God" and one of the actors is a speech therapist (which many Deaf people have growing up while in school) and he uses a song much like "Witch Doctor" for students to learn the mouthing, feeling/vibrations of speech. Check this song from a clip of the movie out: ruclips.net/video/RWguqJzbSsY/видео.html.
Similar to Dr. Seus stories.. they are for the "verbal" audience and not really a Deaf/ASL thing. Hope this helps!
Oh, the music reminds me to tell you that hard of hearing people such as myself are much more deaf to speech than we are to the accompanying music. In other words, for us in particular, the music greatly overrides the spoken words. Until recently I thought that it was just bad sound mixing from the movies I was watching, but it turns out it's me.
Hello Thriving in Amber, as a CODA, I struggle with "auditory processing"; especially music. I cant seem to hear words and mainly focus on the beats. I totally get this frustration. Have you tried to do the "voices off" (mute the sound) option? Its great for receptive practice. Trying to adapt and accommodate for so many learning styles and your feedback means alot! :)
Hi, I have a more general processing overload, with six hundred vision, hyperacusis, and bass sensitivity, and all my two hour long college tests were really fun, being the only one walking out of them totally drained with my hair so badly messed up, I should have seen it as a sign or something, but I do now, and that has to be good enough. I watched a ton of Bill Vicars videos and they have no sound, which helped me see that you don't need sound to break into ASL having learned to optimize language vocally, but it's still a long path. When finding out from a hearing test how curtailed my range was, I decided to train myself to adjust for bike riding with earplugs to prepare for the eventuality of becoming deaf, and while I know deafness usually doesn't work that way, last year I was exposed to a loud sound that completely deafened one side for something like a day and a half. It's really interesting to feel sounds instead of hearing them, and thinking about all my recent experiences while learning ASL, I've gained a lot of understanding. It helps connect my brain to the rest of me better, and in so many ways I'm sharper and better for it~
Is there a place to find a lot of spatial modifiers for signs, like "for a long time" is making heavy circles with the sign while looking tired and having the TH morpheme and even shifting across during the sign. Or are spatial adjustments just connected with their respective morphemes? A lot of my failure in reading sign is it being too fast to analyze and process into something I'm used to, which means I have to practice to become used to it in that form. Also the subtleties can throw me off, like the spatial modifications, and fluent shortcuts. But there's hope for me yet in identifying these things in such specific terms~
Can you provide more in depth videos on MM. Perhaps providing some way to intuitively understand MM. For instance, PEY (I think) is used for TEND TO or TICKETED. In my mind those 2 things aren't connected. So, what does PEY mean?
PEY is used for TEND-to ("ping" or "bing" is also used). Mouth Morphemes are a part of the Non Manual Signals to emphasize or to bring greater meaning to a word. Some consider them "slang" since they are not a part of the English language... For example: Mouth Morphemes "LRLR" you can sign this with LOOK-at as in LOOK OVER-THERE HURRY!!!!! Instead of signing HURRY, you would use the sign LOOK-at and your mouth would move "LRLR" (tongue up and down) to emphasize "Hurry up and look over there". I hope this makes sense. So PEY is a mouth morpheme/movement to bring "Intonation" of a sort. I hope this makes sense. :) Best wishes!
Halloween signs?
Hi! Unsure if this was a request or a question but.. You got it! Here ya go.!
Hit subscribe to show your support and to not miss on new upcoming videos!
Wishing you all the best!
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