Friday, June 15, 2007

Can we improve our ASL?

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

(smile) yeah, I guess that happens to all of us eh? My parents use ASL but I grew up signing like you did when you were 12! Now I'm better but I go back and forth asl or psl. Other day my niece (7 yrs old) told me some of my signs were WRONG! She and I had a good laugh. She is at ISD ind and very strong ASL user. Wow...I guess I still have a lot to learn. Maybe I should VP with her often and I will improve!?!

Platonic's Eye said...

Well, well
Okay I am DOH, went to oral school for the deaf and also much later at the age of 12 I went to resident school for the Deaf, I already picked up some from older where I lived and often went to other places where many Deaf students got gather there for rolling skating or camping, anyway at resident school for the deaf I learned ASL quickly, I had 13 students in my class but 9 Deaf who have Deaf parents in my class plus number of teachers even principle were Deaf of course, it was total communication but in reality, we did not have kind of emphasizing on total communication any way, I have big heart and involve with ASL, theatre even NTD summer school and Gallaudet Univ, myself have very fluent in ASl, my parents are hearing both of them knew nothing but they wished to learn ASL long times, I watched your vlog you were 12 in 1989, it was pretty good signers yuo already use ASL but you were not aware of that time when you were 12 years old. I myself used to accept the idea of Signed Excat in English after I took some courses in ASL lingusitic that changed me and impacted me personally and perceptively. ASL is my first language !

Anne Marie said...

Tips from Anne Marie metaASL

1) Know basic sentence structures how to use head and eyebrows movement for simple to complex sentences including question types. Then watch how fluent signers use them. They just let their head and facial movements "puppet" their signing like this. It is the king of ASL grammar.

2) Learn ASL "idioms" and expressions. Start using few at a times until you 100% understand then move on to learn and use few more.

3) Learn classifiers - iconic handshapes to describe physical features. Start with just objects you are looking for and where they are in room. And describe how your "you know who", "remember that who"... friends look like.

4) The hardest part is mouth movement but here are tips I figured out. Move mouth full for English words mostly for noun then when signing verb and adverbials, mouth less English but show more of verb manner in mouth movement like this. blam, blam, wooooa, eeeeeeee,

I am typing instead, I look too terrible to be on video right now and I thought, let's spell out and I'll try to explain them later on video.

Kim said...

Thanks for sharing your clip as 12-yr-old boy. It's obvious that you are reading aloud - it made you to sign in straight English. Curious if you have other clips that you signed without reading?

My 8 yr old son signs like you when he reads aloud - He is struggling to learn to just read, comprehend, then express in ASL only with some fingerspellings.

I'm pretty sure I did same as you did when I was younger, especially when I was reading aloud.

- Kim

edgewilderness said...

wow, that doesn't look like you. hmm, i was in the same boat but understand i started in tenth grade which yours wasnt that bad... how i wish i could go back in time and complain or know how or where i'm coming from... yikes, oralists or signing SEE/PSE makes our life a little confusing...and the way i see it, it looks depressing too.

Jac said...

You were so terrible! LOL.. You need to practice for your speech since you look down (read at your paper) at most of time like you should have look at people and sign language at same time so they can see your face expression.

now your ASL is doing so well!

Aslpride said...

Thank you for your comments, I appreciate it. :)

To respond DeafMom3's comment, I will copy few more footage with SEE/PSE. Give me a few weeks before I can gather them all. Why few weeks, vhs is everywhere in storage and I have school to focus on. :)

Anonymous said...

WOW! I admit I couldn't understand what you sign in SEE/PSE. It is obvious that I need a Deaf Interpreter LOL. I agree with you that some people can learn ASL. They need more time and have patience to learn ASL, they will be successful. I am proud of them who are willing to learn ASL or already ASL users like you do.