Hello, Friends!

Hello, everyone!!

So, you may have noticed that there are a LOT of new videos. 40 to be exact.

Yep, you read that right. 40 videos. And notice how they go from light in the background to dark? That's because we were outside for several hours shooting these videos. You will notice that Amiga appears in several, and as she was in a talkative mood, sometimes the random bird noise will interrupt. Just do your best to ignore. (; Moose Also makes an appearance in a few of the videos as well! It is amusing, that much is for sure. They aren't professional, but they are pretty stinking good, and easy to use to practice with.

The easiest way to view these videos is under the 'Video' tab at the top of the blog home page. I have done my best to separate them into categories, and you can just click on the different titles to view the various videos. For the ones that I have just posted, if you click the link to go to the post where the video is located, you will find a list of the specific words/concepts covered within the video. That way, if you are looking for a certain thing, you will be able to find where it is without having to watch every single video. I hope you find this useful!

I hope you guys enjoy them. Let me know if there is anything else I can do for you! I'm sad that this class is about to come to a close. But this will be an awesome tool for everyone to be able to use as we continue to move forward in our signing journeys!

It's been fun being in class together. Keep in touch!

Sarah

Group- Empty, Forgot

In This Video:

This is a group of signs with the same handshape.

Signs:

- Forgot
- Empty
- Naked
- Bald

Group- Summer, Ugly

In This Video:

This is a group of signs that have similar handshapes, area, and movement.

Signs:

- Summer
- Ugly
- Dry
- Russian
- Black

Group- Animal, Young

In This Video:

This is a group of signs that originate at the shoulder area.

Signs:

- Animal
- Young
- Old
- Have
- Tired
- Vacation
- Depressed
- Happy
- Excited

Group- Fine, Cool

In This Video:

This video is a grouping of signs that originate at the chest area.

Signs:

- Fine ( as in 'I'm fine')
- Cool
- Fancy
- Formal

Group- Miss, Pickle

In This Video:

This is a group of signs that are all the same sign, but mean various things based on the context of the conversation.

Signs:

- Miss (as in 'miss you')
- Disappointed
- Pickle
- Sour
- Candy

Groups- Family, Team

In This Video:

This video is about how to talk about groups, which is the same motion, but a change of handshape.

Signs:

- Group
- Team
- Family
- Organization
- Class

Group- Vacation

In This Video:

This is a group of signs that deal with vacation.

Signs:

- Vacation
- Retirement
- Spring Break
- Suspension
- Beach
- Mountain
- Weekend

Group- "Y" Handshape

In This Video:

This is a group of signs that use the 'y' handshape.

Signs: 

- Prize/ Trophy
- Cow
- Why
- Super fat
- Sumo wrestlers

People Adjectives

In This Video:

This is a grouping of several adjectives that you can use to describe people.

Signs:

- Cute
- Pretty, Beautiful, Gorgeous
- Handsome
- Funny
- Fun
- Tall
- Short
- Fat
- Skinny
- Long/ Short Hair
- Ugly
- Plain
- Black
- Caucasian
- Hispanic

Group- Elbow Signs

In This Video:

This is a group of signs that originate around the elbow.

Signs: 

- Country (as in America)
- Country (farm country)
- Farm
- Poor
- Cheat
- Steal
- Fall (Autumn)
- Cracker

Group- "Bull" Handshape

In This Video:

This is a group of signs that all have the same handshape as the word 'Bull'. 

Signs:

- Alcohol
- Sarcastic
- Bull
- BS
- Kids
- Rock on
- Mississippi

Specialty Time

In This Video:

These are extra words that are dealing with time that are not in the packet.

Signs:

- A long time; Ever since I grew up
- Ago
- Forever
- On and on and on

Specialty Places

In This Video:

These are several places that came up during class that were not included on the original packet.

Signs:

- Library
- Museum
- Europe
- Travel
- Mexico
- Hawaii
- Austrailia

Money

In This Video:

These are signs that are related to money.

Signs:

- Money
- Rich
- Poor
- Earn, Collect, Get
- Cents- Comes from head
- Dollar
- Check
- Pay
- Buy
- Shopping
- Borrow
- Bank
- Coins
- Save
- Vacation
- Retirement
- Store
- Shop
- Expensive
- Cheap
- Budget
- Bills
- Due
- Withdraw

Skills

In This Video:

These signs are related to skill and skill level.

Signs:

- Skilled
- Professional
- Expert
- Soon
- Specific
- Almost
- Inept

Group- "U" Handshape

In This Video:

This is a group of signs that have the U handshape.

Signs:

- Train
- Short
- Sit
- Salt
- Either/ Or
- Partner
- Name/ Called

Food

In This Video:

These are a couple of foods and food-related words that we have gone over in class.

Signs: 

- Food
- Enough
- Full
- Coke
- Delicious
- Restaurant
- Cafeteria
- Favorite
- Ketchup
- Pepper
- Salt
- Cake
- Cookie
- Please
- Piece
- Pie
- Some
- Pizza
- Spaghetti
- Chicken
- Meat
- Grease
- Chocolate
- Vanilla

Feelings

In This Video:

These are some feelings words that have come up during class that were not in our original packet.

Signs:

- Overwhelmed
- Paranoid
- Hot (temperature, and person)
- Obsessed
- Stressed
- Hope

Life and Death

In This Video:

These are several words that fit into the category 'life and death' that we have used during class to describe various aspects of our lives.

Signs:

- Born
- Birthday
- Presents
- Party
- Funeral
- Parade
- Bury
- Cemetary
- Life
- Survive
- Death

Religion

In This Video:

These are words that deal with religion.

Signs:

- Jesus
- Bible
- Worship
- Sunday
- God
- Church
- Christian
- Religion
- Jewish

Time: Past, Present, Future

In This Video:

These are various words associated with showing time as in if it has already happened, is happening right now, or will happen in the future and when. 

Signs:

- 1 Week, 2 Weeks, etc.
- Weekend
- Many weeks
- All day, all night
- 1 day, 2 days, etc.
- 2 Weeks ago
- 2 Weeks from now
- Next Week
- Now
- Today
- Yesterday
- 2 days ago, 3 days ago, etc.
- Last week
- Recently
- Happening for a long time
- Next month
- Every month
- Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc.
- Then

Specialty Numbers

In This Video:

This video is about where numbers can be placed to indicate different things, such as years, time, age, etc. 

Signs:

- Time- from the wrist
- Age- from chin
- Numbers- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.
- Years- 1 year, 2 years, every year
- Years- ex. 2013
- Money- Cents comes from the head

NMC's

In This Video:

This video is about Non-Manual Classifiers. These are often dealing with facial expression and mouth movement in ways that will help you be more specific about what you are signing. They are actually required part of the signs.

Signs:

- Big- cha!
- Thin- mouth movement
- Wow- Whew!
- Far- Lalalalala
- Very close- Purse lips
- Thin hair- Purse lips
- Super upset- Pffft!
- BS- Blow cheeks
- Pah!- I'm right!

Age

In This Video:

This video is about how to ask for someone's age, as well as how to tell your age.

Signs:

- Old how much you? (How old are you?)
- Telling age coming from chin
- Double number age- Bounce number

Pronouns

In This Video:

This is a collection of a couple of pronouns to help with pronoun concepts. 

Signs:

- She
- Her
- He
- Him
- You
- Your
- Me
- My

Prepositions

In This Video:

This is a collection of select, more common prepositions.

Signs:

- On
- Off
- In (side)
- Out (side)
- With
- Without
- Under
- Over
- Near
- Far

Past Tense

In This Video:

This video is all about how to add past tense to a word.

Signs:

- Finish
- Come/ Came
- Go/ Went
- Have/ Had
- Do/ Did

ASL Words

In This Video:

These are signs associated with ASL.

Signs:

- American Sign Language
- ASL
- Sign
- Language
- Sentence
- Signed English
- Deaf
- Dorm
- Home
- Hearing
- Public
- Oh I see

Person Ending

In This Video:

This video is about how to add the person ending to a word, making it the person rather than the verb that it often is attached to.

Signs:

- Person Ending
- Teacher
- Student
- Hairdresser
- Dancer

Positive, Negative

In This Video:

This video is a collection of several words that are opposites of each other, or positive and negative.

Signs:

- Yes/ No
- Positive/ Negative
- Need
- Require
- Must
- Know/ Don't Know
- Like/ Don't Like

Take Care of

In This Video:

This video shows how to sign different things that have to do with taking care of something.

Signs:

- Take care of
- Babysitting
- Dog sit
- Take Care
- Supervise
- Borrow

Animals

In This Video:

This video has signs for various animal names that we have talked about in class.

Signs:

- Rabbit
- Butterfly
- Mouse
- Rat
- Seal
- Dog
- Cat
- Bird
- Frog
- Chicken
- Fish
- Goat
- Moose/ Deer
- Turkey
- Tiger
- Pig (Dirty)
- Squirrel

General Use Words

In This Video:

This video is a compilation of several general words that we have learned throughout the course of our time in class. 

Signs:

- Come

- Came

- Move

- Travel

- Drive

- Fix

- Both

- Help

- See you later

- Show up

- See

- Some

- Go

- Went

- But

- Different

- For

- For for (What for?)

- With

- Get

- Collect/Earn

Specialty Grammar

In This Video:

These are specialty grammar signs that you would use when communicating with a deaf person in ASL.

Signs:

- Oh I see
- For for? (What for?)
- Touch finish

Classifiers

In This Video:

Classifiers are certain hand shapes that are used to represent objects. You maintain the hand shape while describing the object in ways such as where it goes if it moves, what it looks like, etc. It helps to give a visual picture for the listener.

Signs:

- Car/Vehicle
- People
- You- as used in participate, quit, etc.

America

In This Video:

These are all words that have to do with America as a country and the things we stand for and are common here.

Signs:

- United States of America
- State
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- New York
- Washington DC
- Delaware
- Texas
- Maine
- Pinecone
- Bonus
- Volunteer
- Mississippi
- California
- Capital
- Against the Law
- Law
- Free
- Peace
- Belong
- President
- Vice President

Colors

In This Video:

This video is a collection of color signs.

Signs: 

- Blue
- Green
- Orange
- Yellow
- Red
- Pink
- Brown
- Black
- Purple
- Tan
- Silver
- Gold
- White

Slang

In This Video:

This video is a collection of the various slang words that we have learned over the time in class together. Some are not very nice!

Signs: 

- Too bad
- Shut up
- Pissed off
- Turkey
- Brownie
- Super fat
- Pah! (In your face)
- Whatever
- Super crazy (not nice sign!)
- Shocked
- On and on and on
- Bawl out

Fingerspell Loan Signs

In This Video:

This video is a collection of several of the fingerspell loan signs that we have covered during class. Fingerspell loan signs are signs that don't have a specific sign, so the sign is the spelling of the word or a modified version of it.

Signs:

- Pizza
- Early
- Job
- Dog
- Bank
- Common

*Ignore the bird noise. Silly Amiga (:

Questioning

In This Video:

This video is about how to ask questions.

Signs:

- Question(s)
- Question for you
- Question for me?
- Ask
- Rhetorical Why/Where
- Answer

Class on July 2, 2013

Hey all!

For those of you who were in class, we had a great time! There were only 9 of us including Courtney, but we had a lot of fun! We missed all you hooligans who weren't there!

Basically, all that we did was go over our sentences that we had to do for homework and we reviewed everything that we had been over up to this point. We learned a few things that came from various sentences and such, but nothing groundbreakingly new.

The homework is to keep practicing! Practice is the only way to truly learn the language. I have learned more by just playing around and going over various words throughout the day as they come up than trying to just memorize. But maybe that's just me. Who knows! Whichever way you learn best, do that all week so you're brushed up and ready to move forward next week!

Keep your sentences because those of you (slackers) who weren't there tonight will have to get up and share them next week! And since you have an extra week they better be awesome! Courtney was impressed by us and our sentences tonight, if I do say so myself.

The videos with the randomness (I'm thinking about calling them the etc. videos... because it's all the little side notes of what happens during class!) will be coming soon. Courtney and I are both about to leave to go out of town, and we are both ultra busy during the week (Courtney more than me, with her 78439 jobs plus saving the world and such), so it's hard to coordinate schedules. But I promise we're working on it, and it will be up eventually. That being said, I'm going to be the no-show slacker next week, so if some of you could pretty pretty please take some good notes, it will help me greatly in getting the blog to be as accurate as possible.

If you need/want/think of anything else, just comment on here or text/email me or Courtney.

Happy 4th of July!!

Sarah