Hi, I'm Meredith, and now it's nearing the holidays, the new year... it's a good time
to review family signs! And this is "family"
It's an "F" handshape in a circle: FAMILY.
and that's FAMILY.
Mother or mom
you may also see it where the movement is a little different, where you wiggle
the fingers like this: mother
so mother or mother -- it's the same thing
the sign "father" looks similar; the difference is that it's not at your
chin; it moves to the forehead: father or dad
father. and again the movement can
change to that wiggle
So: father.
"parents" so it's the same handshapes as mother
and father: parents
baby. baby.
you may see differences like smaller like this: baby.
You don't need to make a huge gesture.
Just baby is fine.
daughter -- and it's similar
like girl and baby became daughter.
That's the hand shape: daughter. Goes in the nook of the elbow.
daughter. daughter. And you may still see it with the girl hand shape to
start: daughter.
daughter or daughter either of those
and for boys it's similar starts up here: son. it's again: son. and again you might see
it start with boy like boy baby: son.
son or son. Son.
Children. Children.
Like you're patting them on the heads: children
and just to let you know, here's the sign for "kids" -- kids. kids.
Sister. So it starts
at the chin, and comes down: sister. It's from the signs girl and same, so girl,
same became "sister". sister.
sister. and for boy, it's the same thing: boy and same became "brother"!
Brothers and sisters are siblings. that's the sign "siblings"
for example: (demonstration)
and that's "siblings". Wife, wife. And again it was a compound sign:
"girl"and "marry" became wife. Wife.
And again you may see it signed girl-marry, means wife. same thing. And for husband
"husband" this one starts at the forehead. Husband and you might see boy-marry,
that's fine, but just be careful not to use the index finger -- that's different;
it means "believe". "believe", it's different from "husband". husband.
Partner. Partner.
You can say "my partner"; partner.
Another sign you might see is "sweetheart"
"sweetheart" means someone you're in a relationship with. "sweetheart".
In this video I showed you signs for parents children and that kind of thing.
Next week, in part 2, I'll show you more like grandmother grandfather cousins and so
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