Hey signers, welcome to Learn How to Sign. We finally made it to the end of our series
on numbers. Now that we have learned signs associated with numbers, let's learn how
we can go even further incorporating numbers into signs. Like seriously what I'm about to teach you
will open up your signing skills with just one simple rule. If this interests you,
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so you don't miss a thing, so let's learn how to sign everything to do with numbers in ASL.
So, how do we incorporate numbers into signs in ASL? This is called the "Rule of 9." It's literally
using the numbers one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine incorporated in to a sign.
These signs include money, age, time, seconds, minute, hour, day, week, month, and year. How do we incorporate
these numbers into the signs themselves? Well for money you have what's called the dollar twist.
The dollar twist looks like this. One dollar, two dollar, three dollar, four dollars, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, and for the numbers ten and up, you do ten dollars, eleven dollars,
twenty six dollars, thirty two dollars, one hundred dollars. Now what if we're going to talk about
cents. In cents, you have the cent spot up here. You would just do one since 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
and 9. Then after that you're going to do index 10 cents, index 50 cents, index 75, that index finger is
showing a cents and then you do the number after it. Let's say we have seven dollars and fifty cents.
seven dollars and fifty cents. Now let's look how we incorporate numbers into age.
We have 1 years old, 2 years old 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 and then 10 and above, age 10
age 15, age 50. As you can see, the number is incorporated in the sign for numbers
1 through 9, but then 10 and up you do the sign age and then the number. Now let's look at time
time comes off of your wrist as in your watch. So, you would have one o'clock, two o'clock
three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, but for ten, eleven, and twelve o'clock, you would do time ten,
time eleven, time twelve. To incorporate time with the hour and the minutes you just sign 5-30, 7-15,
9-45. Now in a ASL, they don't use military time. Say for instance you need to show the difference
between meeting somebody in the morning or the evening, all you need to do is morning
seven o'clock versus night seven o'clock. Now let's look at the sign seconds. As you saw before, we do
seconds with just a little flick. Whenever we sign seconds incorporated in the "Rule of 9", we
just do one second, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and then if we need to go above that,
ten seconds, eleven seconds. Let's look at the sign minutes. This is the base sign for minutes,
but whenever we're doing one through nine incorporated into minutes
it goes like this one minute, two minute, three minute, four minute, five, six, seven, eight, nine, then 10
and above is signed like this. Ten minutes, 11 minutes, 50 minutes, 65 minutes. Now to sign hours.
Your hand is like a clock and when the number goes around it makes the hour. So you just sign
one hour, two hours, three hours, four hours, five, six, seven, eight, nine, then 10 hours, 12 hours,
24 hours. So how do you incorporate days? Well this is the sign for days with the letter 'D'
but if you do this one day, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, then you guessed it, you sign 10 and above 10 days,
15 days, 44 days. To sign the word weeks, you just incorporate the word
week, think of it like going across the week on a calendar. So you would just sign
one week, two weeks, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, then you would sign 10 weeks, 20 weeks, 40 weeks,
and go on from there. For months, you're going to do the same thing. One month, two months, three months,
four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, then from 10 and above you just go 10 months, 12 months,
24 months, and move on from there. Last we have the sign year. The sign year
is just like this. It's like the sun with the earth rotating around it. So,
you would just do one year, two years, three years, four years, five, six, seven, eight, nine, then 10 years,
20 years, 30 years. As you can see there are many signs that incorporate this "rule of 9."
Whenever you're doing it, just make sure you feel comfortable with signing the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, and 9, then you incorporate it into the sign itself. Now let's put some of these "Rule of 9"
signs into sentences. My daughter is 7 years old and my son is 5. 'My daughter seven, my son
five and noticed I put my daughter and then my son separate from each other because I'm talking
about two different things. That's what we call shoulder shifting when we're using and, but, or, or.
How about the two of us meet at 5:30. 'Two of us meeting 5-30.'
The hamburger is seven dollars. 'Hamburger cost seven dollars.'
I'm going on a two-week vacation to Hawaii. 'Hawaii vacation stay two weeks.'
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