Monday, July 29, 2013

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



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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

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

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