Hey signers, welcome to Learn How to Sign.
Today you are going to learn how to sign conversational signs.
These are the ones you'll want to keep 'handy' to carry on a conversation in American Sign Language.
There are actually over 50 signs that I have gathered for this topic, so we're going to break them down into two videos.
In part one, we'll focus on feelings, attention, and clarifications signs. You can see a list of all of these signs down below in our chapter markers.
In part two, you'll learn general conversations, affirmations, and negations signs.
If that's specifically what you're looking for, you can click here to find that video or I'll have the link down in the description.
As always be sure to like, subscribe, and be notified. Let's learn how to sign conversation signs.
Before we get started, it's important to know that when you're signing feelings you must include facial expression.
There are five parts that are required when producing a sign and these are called the five parameters of sign.
One of these parts is non-manual signals. This includes your facial expression and body language.
With feeling you must incorporate facial expression to give the correct meaning. So, let's learn how to sign about feelings.
'Bored, bored,' it's like you're so bored that you're picking you nose 'bored.' 'Busy, busy,' now if you're really busy you go bptptptpt
to show you're really busy, 'busy' bptptptpt. 'Sleepy, sleepy,' it's like your head it nodding off, 'sleepy.'
'Tired, tired,' it's showing your body is slumped over when you're tired, 'tired'. 'Sick, sick,' when people get sick, it's typically with
their head and their stomach, 'sick, sick.' 'Sad, sad,' your hands are bringing your sadness down 'sad.'
'Scared, or afraid, or terrified,' you're putting your body in like you're hiding yourself away 'scared.'
'Mad or angry,' your hand in coming showing how your face is mad or angry, 'mad or angry.'
'Confused or confused,' you're pointing to head and showing something is messed up, 'confused, confused.'
'Nothing, nothin much', your 'O' hand are shaking back and forth, 'nothing, nothin much.'
"Same ole or the usual,' you got 'Y' hand shapes going in circles, 'same ole or usual.'
'Bad, bad,' it's the opposite of good just flips around 'bad.' 'So-so, so-so' your hand is flipping back and forth, 'so-so.'
'Fine, fine,' your '5' hand is coming right up to your chest, 'fine.' 'Good or well,' your dominant hand is coming down from your
chin down to your non-dominant, 'good or well.' 'Excited, excited' your feeler fingers are moving up on your chest, 'excited.'
'Happy, happy,' your hands are flat and they're on your chest moving up, 'happy.' Now to go even further, when you're talking about
facial expression, you're going to change the intensity of the signs meaning. For example, the sign nervous but if I go [like this]
it might mean I'm shaking in my boots.
So now we're going to sign about getting attention. 'Eye contact, eye contact,' your eyes and somebody else's eye are making contact
with other, 'eye contact.' 'Look at me, look at me,' these are the eyes of somebody else looking towards you, 'look at me.'
'Pay attention, pay attention,' think of horse blinders narrowing the view of what they can see, 'pay attention.'
'Hold on, hold on,' it's just like saying give me a second, 'hold on.'
Now let's move to signs about clarification. Now you're going to notice that non-manual signals are so important.
If there's a sign with affirmation, you need to nod you head and if there's a sign about negation, you need to shake your head.
This is just as important as the sign itself.
Let's learn how to sign clarifications. 'No, I don't understand, no, I don't understand,' the sign no with I and don't understand.
'No, I don't understand.' 'Please sign again, please sign again,' this is really useful if you've missed something being signed in the
conversation and want to see it again. 'Please sign again.' 'Sign slow please, sign slow please,' it's the sign, slow, and please
altogether, 'sign slow please.' 'Sorry, don't understand, sorry, don't understand,' using the 'S' for the sign sorry and showing that
the lightbulb isn't clicking on, 'sorry, don't understand.' 'Yes, I understand. Yes, I understand, it's the sign yes, pointing to yourself
and showing that that lightbulb is coming on, 'yes, I understand.'
Now that you learned all these signs, let's practice them using them in these sentences.
Sorry I'm confused, please sign again. 'Sorry, I confused please sign again.'
I'm excited. What about you? 'I excited, you? And when you're doing this, you're asking the person what about you and it makes it
a yes/no question. Remember eyebrows up.
He's happy but he's sad. 'He happy but he sad.' These index fingers are pointing to where different people might be.
Sorry, I'm nervous. Can you spell again please? 'Sorry, I nervous spell again.' And remember do that facial expression with it.
I hope you guys enjoyed this video and make sure to check out all our other content because we have tons more coming to you.
I encourage you to keep on practicing and use it within your family at the dinner table. If you're still needing practice, go back and
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