hey signers welcome to learn how to sign we are so excited about our brand new course
called introduction to asl in fact in this video we're going to give you one of the lessons
but first i want to share a little bit about the course this course is intended for beginning
signers and ones who want a refresher in this course we will cover the alphabet numbers
0-30 greetings and farewells questions and responses exchanging information conversation
signs common signs and so many more grammatical features of asl as always we put an extreme
amount of time and effort into planning and producing a quality product that we know will
expand your asl knowledge and skills not only are we offering vocabulary and lessons but
also activities for you to practice and review after your lesson is complete now what are
you waiting for go and check it out you can go check it out in the link in the description
right now here's your sneak peek of one of the lessons [Music]
here's lesson four questions and responses now that we know how to start and end a conversation
what about basic questions in conversation so in this section we are going to focus on
wh questions which are who what when where why how which and yes no questions along with
simple responses once we learn the vocabulary and structure of questions then in the next
section we are going to use those questions and then learn how to sign more meaningful
responses once we get started and learning how to sign wh vocabulary i really want you
to notice a corresponding theme with each one of these signs when you're signing wh
words you need to make sure that your eyebrows go down this is essential with wh words you
also are going to be signing with leaning forward and the wh word is going to go at
the end of the sentence whenever you're signing it in a complete sentence for instance what
is your name you would sign you name what you notice that my eyebrows are down and i'm
leaning forward and i'm ending with the what at the end of the sentence now let's learn
how to sign wh words who or who i like to think of an owl going who who who or who what
what your five hands are kind of bent in together moving in and out what when when think of
the hand of a clock moving around when where where your index finger is searching like
a compass where's north where
why or why you're wiggling or it's pulling out to a y hand y or why which which it's
like you're balancing which one you prefer which how or how you're doing the sign how
but make sure that your eyebrows are down because it's a wh question how how how much
how much your hands are throwing up into the air how much four four four four in english
this would mean what's that for or why four 4 4 now that we've learned these wh words
let's talk about how to put them in sentences like i mentioned before we have the sentence
what is your name how the correct asl structure would be is you name what you the what is
going at the end my eyebrows are down and i'm leaning forward and this u at the end
is what we call a closing signal and we'll talk about that in another lesson let's take
another sentence where's the book well you're going to ask book where notice again my eyebrows
are down i'm leaning forward and then i have this at the end of the sentence so book where
so you might have noticed before whenever i taught how were you in the last lesson well
whenever you're doing how are you you're still doing the how with the eyebrows down and leaning
forward and then this closing signal that we'll talk about in a later lesson so how
are you well we'll find out how to sign that response soon okay now let's learn how to
sign the few signs for yes no vocabulary yes yes your hand is representing your head nodding
yes no no it's like the letter n and o put together no okay okay it's just o and k put
together okay now that we know the vocabulary for responses for yes no questions how do
we sign a yes no question so let's look at the sentence do you like ice cream the correct
asl structure would be you like ice cream you notice my eyebrows are going up this is
a key indicator of a yes no question i also end it with you because i'm asking the person
do you like ice cream your response could be yes no and as you noticed when i signed
yes my head went up and down for an affirmation or no shaking my head back and forth for negation
now that leads us right in to learning affirmation and negation signs before we get started you're
going to notice with affirmation your head is going to not up and down it's that non-manual
signal that we talked about in the parameters of sign you need to make sure that an affirmation
signs your head nods up and down with negation signs it's going to shake back and forth again
so important because of those non-manual signals a part of the five parameters of sign so let's
learn how to sign affirmation and negation signs can can your fists are just moving forward
can can't can't your finger is flicking down on your other one can't no no you're tapping
your forehead like you know that something's in there but people who know sign language
sometimes do the sign no down here no don't know don't know you're flicking your hand
away because you don't know something don't know understand understand it's like the light
bulb is coming on understand don't understand don't understand you do the sign understand
but shaking your head back and forth don't understand i or me you're just pointing with
your index finger towards yourself i or me not me not me you're pointing to yourself
and shaking your head not me like like you're using your thumb and your middle finger and
pulling it out from your body like don't like don't like it's the sign like but flicking
it out don't like want one you have bent five hands bringing it in towards yourself one
don't want don't want you flick your hands down because you don't want it don't want
not don't doesn't your thumb is just flicking out from your chin not don't doesn't now that
you've learned some affirmation and negation signs let's put some into sentences for instance
do you understand this is how you would sign you understand you notice the understand my
head is going up and down affirming understanding and then this is a yes no question so i'm
leaning forward my eyebrows are up and i'm ending with you let's take another one i can't
find the book can you the correct asl structure would be book can't find you i'm saying the
book i can't find that negation showing that i can't and then i'm asking but what about
you can you find it again eyebrows are up pointing forward and leaning forward [Music]
[Music]
[Music] now it's time to move to your receptive quiz now this is what you'll expect each time
we do these what i'm going to do is i am going to either fingerspell or sign something to
you and you are going to write it down you can watch it as many times as you want so
that way you feel comfortable with this new language number one
number two
[Music]
number three
[Music]
number four [Music] number five [Music]
all right let's see how you did number one how number two which number three can't number
4 understand number 5 no now let's move on to our expressive quiz in this section what
you will do is we will give you a word or phrase and then you are going to sign it or
fingerspell it then after you're done i will sign it or fingerspell it back to you so that
way you can get immediate feedback on how you did where
where
no
no [Music] no
[Music] like
like
what
don't want
now your homework assignment before moving on to the next lesson get a mirror and the
list of these words sign each word with the correct non-manual signal see how your facial
expression is all right let's move on to lesson five exchanging information i hope you found
that lesson helpful if you want to continue the rest of the course today you can go check
it out in the link in the description right now now go and check it out and keep learning
how to sign