Click here to learn how to sign the American Pledge of Allegiance (contributed by Noelle).
Click here to learn how to sign Greetings and Introductions (contributed by Jaime)
Mysteries and Misconceptions (contributed by Melissa)
ASL Humor (contributed by Nathan)
ABC song in ASL (contributed by Amber)
Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" (also contributed by Amber)
Click here for another ASL campaign for more signed songs contributed by Amber.
ASL lessons: Common Signs (contributed by Paula)
Paula also recommends this free, iphone app: isignlite.
Prayer and Hymns in ASL (contributed by Kaitlyn)
Young Children Signing (contributed by Caitlin)
Japanese sign language alphabet (contributed by Ashley)
ASL Babbling
This one shows how ASL babbling is different from the simple wiggling of toes and fingers that all children do when they're young. The video's author describes the video in this way: "Our 3 year-old son, home with us for 4 months, having well over 300 words in his vocabulary, but here, signing nonsense 'babbling.' An important step in language development. We love it!" Click here to check out the blog where the author writes about this: http://signstogether.blogspot.com/2011/12/language-milestones.html
Sign Profanity (contributed by Jaime)
This one is what it says it is, so if you don't want to be exposed to these curse words, don't push the play button.
Yeah, thanks for giving me credit for the profanity post. I'll be testing out some of those tomorrow, so be prepared people.
ReplyDeleteSign language fascinates me, and because I'm not a visual person, I don't think I could ever be fluent in it. In fact, I kind of get frustrated watching people show me how to sign since I can't reciprocate the movements or motions with my hands. I can only imagine how frustrated they get trying to communicate with people who speak. The video Mysteries and Misconceptions contributed by Melissa I felt like summed up what we've been talking about lately. The girl speaking felt so moved by sign to learn it. She points out important distinguishing factors about sign like alphabets are different, sign languages are different, and ASL is not ESL and so on... I still find babies signing to be incredibly cute. I think it's awesome that they can communicate so well without spoken words. They're just like little motor"hands" instead of motor mouths.
ReplyDelete- Noelle
The ASL Humor posted by Nathan is funny!!! Way to go Nathan! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI love the video of the young children signing! Thanks Caitlin for sharing this video. While watching it, I am curious as to whether or not the youngster of the left of the screen is predominatly left-handed because of the way he signed "airplane" or if it is because he is sharing the signs with the child on his left? Hmm, interesting.
ReplyDeleteI thought the Common Phrases videos contributed by Paula were very helpful and interesting. It was neat to learn the signs for words such as Jacket or Ball. For example, with Jacket, the instructor ran her hands down her torso, like she would if she were actually smoothing out a jacket. I also watched the video of the toddlers chatting in the car, and it was a bit mind blowing for me. It was really awesome to watch these kids communicate to each other.
ReplyDelete- Melissa Keel
A lot of these videos are really interesting if not just that but helpful! Perhaps my favorite was the one with the children, not only because it was utterly adorable to me but also since it shows how early on a person an learn sign language if exposed to it throughout their stages of development. However, as with what Noelle said, I don't think I'd ever be able to actually become fluent in signing. I often get too frustrated in trying to remember how a certain sign is done and to try and do so correctly without screwing up on it and making the message seem really garbled or perhaps even offensive if I said the wrong thing due to making the wrong hand sign when thinking it was another. However I found them all interesting and I still think the one with the children was cute!
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I agree that these videos were interesting. Some of them helped with learning the language, and some helped me to better understand how the language is acquired. The ones with the kiddos were quite cute, and it amazes me how kids learn to sign apparently just as easy as hearing kids learn to speak. All of these little ones were throwing around signs, and made it seem so simple. I also thought that Paula's contributions were very helpful. It makes that when you sign the word "later" that your hand gesture moves forward, whereas when you sign "yesterday," it is going away. I was actually practicing some of these, and thinking about how simple a few of them are to remember. Of course there are many others that I will probably never remember, but that's not what I'm talking about right now. As many of you already know, I've also had a really fun time signing curse words. I'm sad to see that I'm the only one who thoroughly enjoyed my inappropriate contribution! (haha) Nathan's was also very entertaining and informative. I'm pretty sure I laughed through half of it. I never actually thought about the differences between hearing drivers and deaf drivers, such as how they communicate in the car. Now I know the truth!
ReplyDeleteI really like the discussion of three dimensional grammar in Melissa’s video Mysteries and Misconceptions. I think that part would be the hardest for me to adjust to in learning sign language because I’m so used to all the tenses in English. I’m not sure if it would be more simple or more confusing to understand. Also I’m extremely fond of the sign for b.s. in the profanity video and it’s the only sign I’ve really committed to memory so far. I get as much satisfaction from signing it as I do from saying it. Thanks, Jaime!
ReplyDeleteAlright, so first of all, I felt like extremely dorky, because when I watched the video Amber posted, the signing of Beautiful, I teared up! Especially when it got to the chorus. Thank you for contributing that Amber. I agree with everyone that the children in the car video was extremely cute! It was pretty cool to watch them talk to one another, and I thought it was funny when one of the boys kicked his father's seat for his attention. I thought the video with the profanities was pretty cool too, but mostly just because I could curse someone out and they wouldn't even know it. I just think that sign language is really neat and I can't wait to enroll in the class and start learning it!
ReplyDelete-Ashley Tucker
I really liked the video of the baby babbling. Like some have mentioned in class, it's easy to be skeptical that signing children are legitimately babbling in a way that compares the spoken language, but I feel like this video really proved that this happens. I found watching him really interesting. I'm really fascinated by how children acquire signed language-including the similarities and the differences between signed and spoken language.
ReplyDeleteCaitlin Giles
For some reason, I though Japanese had more letters than that, shows how much of a linguist I am. My favorite video of all of these was the two kids in the car who were signing to each other. They spoke/signed to each other the way we might expect kids too and were just as inquisitive as speaking children. Also like speaking children, they would kick their father's seat to get his attention. I wasn't able to watch the profanity video; it said it was private. The alphabet lesson was really cool. It reminded me of a ceiling border you might see in a kindergarten classroom.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the musical videos because they show a different facet of the deaf culture and people. The videos of the children were really cute but they mostly acted as an affirmation of the text for most part. I enjoyed them all though, especially the deaf driving video i can't deny that (lol).
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