Learn ASL in 31 Days :: Day 13
Hi, I'm Rochelle
It's day 13 in Learn ASL in 31 Days
Today you'll learn to practice fingerspelling. It's very important in ASL
You know that, right! To help with double letters - for words with two of the same letter:
A, for double -- slide to the right. B -- slide.
C -- slide, D you can tap or tap/slide
E -- slide, F -- slide
G - slide H - slide I - slide J - would sign twice
K - slide or tap/slide. L - slide
M - tap or tap/slide N- tap or tap/slide
O - slide, P - slide, Q - would slide
R - slide. Don't tap it, you could hurt your fingers
S - slide T- tap/slide or tap
U - slide, V - slide W - slide X - slide
Y - slide. Z - can do double finger Z, but that's also the sign for pizza. You can also just sign Z twice
Jazz -- j a z z or j a double-z.
You'll see both
Now you're receiving fingerspelling in a conversation and the person fingerspells to you, it's important to not say
C A T. If they're fingerspelling to you and you go C A T then you have to go c a t
oh cat! So when someone is fingerspelling to you go caaat cat.
just like reading, you're just reading someone's fingers. Obviously some words have different sounds it's the same as the book
you know you get used to cause sometimes C makes the sss sound. You just have to figure it out and then all of a sudden
you go, oh that doesn't fit
so you kinda have to go back. So fingerspelling, receiving fingerspelling can be difficult.
especially with bigger words. Today you're just going to do 3 letter words.
with the basic short vowel sounds. You know the sounds.
and another thing that helps with fingerspelling, I don't know if you've heard of this --
when you read a lot of times, when you see the word, you just see the shape of the word
You can see it goes up, it goes down. So if it's the word log
it'd be up, then middle, then down at the bottom. Does that make sense? Uou see the shape of the word.
a lot of people see the shape instead of just the letters
and you recognize the shape. It's the same with fingerspelling
I'm trying to think of a word, let's do pal. You'll see
it goes down, up and then tall. You'll notice the shape of the word, especially if it's a longer word. You go letter
You're going to recognize the shape of the word, the hands. That's more of an advanced skill, but it's something to start looking for is to recognize the shape
and draw in your memory bank of oh I know, that word is probably this so that when they're fingerspelling
and you're sounding it out you can anticipate the coming letters.
Again, that's an advanced skill, but the most important for you to do right now is to practice sounding it out when you see me
signing the letters to you and also to practice your double letters. So I'm going to give you some
3 letter words. I won't put it in closed captioning for you, sorry.
You can't practice if you're going to cheat, right? Okay, so,
3 - letter words, sorry, I lost my train of thought.
Voice off/captions off
Finished! If you missed some go and watch it again
again and again until you understand every fingerspelled word
See ya tomorrow! oh! I'll give you a practice paper that you can use yourself with fingerspelling. You'll read the list and fingerspell as you go
Practice with your mirror, remember it's good to do, especially with fingerspelling and numbers. See you tomorrow, bye!
Learn ASL in 31 Days :: Day 13