welcome back to sequestered signing it
is week one day five now we've practiced
our introductions this week you've
learned your introductions and if you've
gone to the practice prompts in the
Instagram account
ASL Rachelle you will have seen all the
various prompts and how they build on
each other as we go now you learned how
you refined and learned or learnt the
alphabet on day three and you did
numbers a day for today we're gonna talk
about fingerspelling so you can take
that alphabet I wanted to give you some
time to really make sure you had it
mastered before he went to
fingerspelling then he need
fingerspelling for any and all scenarios
any word it's free game to be
fingerspelled it doesn't matter if it
has a sign or doesn't have a sign
associated with it you can fingerspell
Oh
okay so let's really quick go over the
rules the basic rules of fingerspelling
the first rule is to not bounce your
hand so you don't want to go up and down
like this
now some people most people are gonna be
like whoa whoa but you'll be moving your
hand and you won't really realize it a
lot of people will knock their hands out
or they'll go like this will it go my
name is Bailey so they're moving their
hands so you don't want to move your
head up and down you don't want to knock
your hands out so if you feel like your
hand is moving and I definitely
recommend either videoing yourself doing
this or watching in a mirror to make
sure or just look over at your hand
while your fingers Molly if you see any
movement it's a very easy fix
you can just hold your elbow here with
your other hand
just give it something to rest into and
you just take off take the weight of
your arm and then you can do it and if
you move you'll be able to feel it more
and you move it'll help you be more
aware of it and stop it okay and then
once you get used to this then you can
remove your hand and sing and
fingerspell and you won't naturally keep
trying to bounce it okay it'll help you
build up the skill of not moving okay
sometimes you will move and it'll be
appropriate but the balancing and the
knocking is not okay this if you're
going like this is yelling in sign
language alright if you're like doing
this forward yelling motion okay alright
the other ones those that's really the
basic one you want to know double
letters you slide them or you can tap
them it depends on what the letter is
all else fails you can slide them I do
have a video my youtube channel SL
Rachelle that's specifically double
letters so you can do a quick search
it's over shell double letters and I
have a whole video on all the specific
letters
you need to know which one's the tap
which one's the slide it's always safest
to slide because there are several
letters that you cannot tap okay like oh
you don't tap oh all right
but you would slide it so if you're
doing a double letter so let's see if I
was fingerspelling the word Mississippi
there's lots of double letters in that
word right I would go M is s so I would
go M is slide it to the right and I
leave my hand here i SS slide it out
some more i PP I okay so when you slide
your hand out for a double letter you
leave it there you don't go mi SS i SS
IPP I write you don't go back and forth
okay now if you're doing like this whole
title oh the Mississippi manifest or
whatever you would go the Mississippi
and you would leave your hand here for
the next word manifest but if you were
gonna want you to like the title oh it's
the Mississippi manifest then you would
and you're gonna sign up and you're
gonna fingers fall again then you would
start right where are you
normally fingerspell also when you
fingerspell take your darn hand have
your hands by your side like this and
just raise it up right here so you want
to keep your hand comfortable you don't
want to fingerspell
up here you don't want to fingerspell
out here this causes a lot of fatigue
your hand your arm your elbow or
shoulder is gonna get tired really quick
okay so you need to be real careful and
so the best way to do that is to keep it
tucked in like your body can help hold
it if you have it tucked in here and you
want to keep your hand relaxed and it's
just right in here Rochelle okay just
keep it right here I mean like you know
you're not like squeezing it in but
you're just having
comfortable just hold it at this
comfortable angle right here in front of
your shoulder hey and then if you slide
out you're moving out then you bring you
back in for the neck you know for the
next things that your fingerspelling
okay all right now that's basically what
you want to do the goal is to have the
Trent the letters smooth it's important
that when you are fingerspelling you're
not naming the letters in your mind so
like when I did mi SS is si PPI when I
was showing you the sliding when I'm
spelling Mississippi I'm not going in
hi I'm going Mississippi I'm sounding it
out I'm saying the word okay you say you
don't want to name the letters when it's
being pierced out to you and you don't
want any of the letters when you are
fingerspelling okay you've got to think
of each of these words as a whole unit
as work okay that's important so when
you are going to fingerspell words you
want to make the movements between
letters smooth as you can you know you
want to be a so I'm trying to keep my
hand smooth and not space between the
letters okay like not like time between
the letters and you don't want to open
your hand up to get into the next letter
you just want to smoothly move into that
next letter like B to an AI don't go be
a I go B straight down into the a right
so that comes with drilling your letters
and really practicing yeah really
knowing the letter so you don't have to
stop and think now what does that letter
look like or how do I sign that letter
it's important that you really master
each of the letters so very well before
you start stringing let it words
together okay so that's super important
for you to know as well when we did this
live we did go over
names like we practiced a bunch of
different names so we'll just do here a
couple and then in the practice prompt
there's some more ideas for you to do
what you can do is think of all like
write down ten names that you know any
ten names that matter what and then just
practice those several times until you
feel real comfortable with each of those
names if you're not yet comfortable with
the alphabet then make sure that you're
comfortable there before you start in
the names I don't want you to go I'm
gonna go straight to the names but
you're still like I don't know that
letter where you practice signing the
wrong letter and I want you to reinforce
that so I want you to really make sure
that you know that so if you're not sure
if you really have mastered the alphabet
go to week one day three video where we
go over the alphabet again on my youtube
channel
ASL Rachelle all of my social media is a
solar shell if you're ever like what is
that a summer job it's that I do have
some longer alphabet videos you can
check out there as well
okay so let's do a couple of names
together first we'll do Bob that's a
good old standby b.o.b Bob so if you're
not sure how to spell it think of the
name first how to spell it and then
finger spell the word so I got Bob I'm
telling you it's b.o.b it's Bob b.o.b
Bob okay now if you can't go as fast as
me that's fine I frequently forget to go
slow I'm like I'm trying to go slow and
then I I i terrible I typically have to
have my lovely video editors slow my
hand down for me all right let's do
Elvis
okay well fingerspell Elvis okay let's
do it again
good let's think of a name uh Megan will
do make it because it's got an M and an
end okay we'll do it again
all right Trevor let's do Trevor
okay we'll do it again I'll go slower
so when I talk about not really having
that space so even if you're going slow
you can still be smooth okay so you can
see when I did I went slower with Trevor
I was like this I'm gonna rest my hand
I've been signing a lot today it's
getting tired
so it's still smoothness and an
efficiency between the letters okay I'm
trying to think of some examples of how
like some really clear examples so if
you're going slow
it's really good to go okay so I've got
this T here I'm gonna go into the R so I
can keep all these hands down fingers
down all I need to do is pop these two
fingers up and move my thumb over okay
and now I'm gonna go down to the e okay
so my thumb so you just go okay I'm here
what is the smallest amount of movement
I can get from this are down to the e
and then we're going to be so I'm gonna
just pop up these two fingers here V and
then my thumb just kind of catches those
fingers as they pop forward right I'm
going to the Oh just bring those down oh
now I'm gonna do my arm and I see
they're already here all you have to do
is go boom straight up to the arc so you
want to think of what's the smallest
amount of movements that you can make to
move to the next letter and that's how
you get smoother so you start out doing
that slow now this is super important
everybody wants to be able to
fingerspell fast that is not your goal
your goal is clarity but it's like the
biggest value of the divot of the deaf
community is clarity they would rather
you be slow and clear than fast and a
muddled mess okay so I don't want you
anxious like sweating like feeling bad
or shaming yourself me like oh my gosh
if only I was faster if I only I could
do this her he signs faster than I do if
she fingers supposed to have something
to do nobody cares
it's not important okay so what you need
to do is practice being clear being
accurate hey then with time and
experience consistent practice your
speed is going to naturally increase
okay you can eventually push
yourself to be a little bit faster but
it's going to happen naturally okay you
don't have to force it please don't
force it okay clarity accuracy clarity
accuracy I really wish I'd remembered to
talk about this at the beginning of this
video because I'm hoping that you guys
all stuck around for this part of
alright that's one of the big rules
clarity accuracy over speed speed more
important towards clarity more important
clarity is more important all right just
making sure you're paying attention
head over to the practice prompt and
practice names I have someone listed out
there for you in the practice prompt
that says week one day five also or you
just make up however many names you want
make sure you don't fatigue yourself if
your hand and your elbow gets tired
stop don't keep going all right you'll
injure yourself and that's no bueno