American Sign Language (ASL) Lesson 17 Narrative (story)

Lesson 17 Story / narration practice. (Audience level: "ASL 2")
ASLU: ASL University Level 2, Lesson 17. Dr. Bill Vicars reviewing a basic introduction with Danielle who is an ASL 2 level student.
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YESTERDAY MORNING I ATE CEREAL, BANANA. DRINK WATER.
YESTERDAY EAT NOON I SOUP, SALAD, GRAPES. DRINK POP.
NOW-[this] MORNING I ATE PANCAKE, EGG, SAUSAGE.
DRINK MILK.
MY EGG I SALT, PEPPER.
TODAY EAT-NOON I HOTDOG.
MY HOTDOG-[version_2] I KETCHUP, MUSTARD.
TONIGHT I EAT HAMBURGER, FRENCH FRIES.
MY HAMBURGER I PICKLE, MAYO. DRINK BEER.
TOMORROW MORNING I EAT FRENCH-TOAST.
MAKE FRENCH TOAST HOW-[rhetorical]?
BOWL, EGG “break egg into,” MILK, “pour milk into” “stir.”
BREAD “dip bread into bowl put into P-A-N. “Turn over.”
BROWN? TIME EAT!
EAT FINISH? CUP DISH PUT SINK.
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[@popularonyoutubephilippine7124]

Sorry, not understand (yesterday) and (banana) but maybe don't know asl different. Sorry apologize

[@daneelmclennon-samuels211]

I absolutely love these lessons, ive learnt so much. Thank you

[@jamesguilmet1349]

Thank you for your videos. I been learning from them greatly. I have 2 deaf people who just got hired at my work. And I have been learning sign so I can talk with them. Thank you again.

[@JdSpoof]

Hey Bill thanks a lot! I recently became interested in sign when I was teaching a special needs class and one of the students was deaf. Your videos are excellent.

[@lildevilangel1]

thank you bill i was waiting for this one.thank you thank you

[@durpyrainbowp8405]

She’s a fast learner. Once he screen said “noon” I already forgot everything.

[@Luna-ft8yh]

Yes, she is. Very smart

[@sign-language]

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[@ikahernandez5606]

Great job 👏🏻 thanks

[@imagine1300]

Thank you!

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Awesome!

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Can I borrow your eyebrows? :-)

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[@sign-language]

The same videos are here on my youtube channel for free. Just watch lessons 1 through 60 online/

[@dougules]

Is "brown" one stroke and "beer" two? They look really similar.

[@sign-language]

It varies but yah -- BROWN tends to be one stroke and BEER tends to be two. However, if you sign BEER quickly while drunk you might only do it once. See: www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/b/beer.htm So I'm going to state this again: Generally brown is once. Generally beer is twice. However beer is often done once after you've introduced the topic and been discussing it for a while. Does that mean beer and brown look the same sometimes? Yes. That's exactly what it means. Can they be made to look differently? Yes -- by doing a single, relatively large movement for brown and a quick double movement for beer. Some people even do a small rotational movement for beer (butt that is much less common these days).

[@lifes_a_journey]

If I want to start to learn sign language, which video or video series do you recommend?

[@sign-language]

I recommend you start here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/epKwm6VqdsuMd5I If you don't know the abc's then start here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJKUknSOpbulaNk For additional support and structured lessons, see: lifeprint.com/asl101/lessons/lessons.htm

[@tianamaywyatt770]

Hello Bill . I’m curious . What is eat noon ?

[@connerlee6494]

Lunch

[@1lightdweller]

Spock how rhetorical.... raise just one eyebrow.

[@lamisahaque2001]

Please want learn .

[@1lightdweller]

Kinda hard to follow fingerspelling when it doesn't drop out of light speed...

[@sign-language]

Tip: You may wish to invest an hour on my "Fingerspelling" playlist. The first video or two are ultra beginner but then by the third video we start bridging the gap to "Deaf Speed." (Which is faster than light -- heh.) See: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJKUknSOpbulaNk

[@naturemommyandchildrenanda3836]

Banana doesn’t look like banana signed like that, though. Sign is supposed to be a picture language. Who peels the banana twice in the same spot? It just doesn’t look like banana. And I thought morning the hand went into the elbow of the opposite arm. The other doesn’t really look like the sun coming up the way he does it. Why do they always have to change signs making it so difficult for us to keep in the know.

[@sign-language]

In your comment you chose to abbreviate the words "does not" into the word "doesn't." ASL signers reduce and simplify movements (for example: two movements in the same spot vs two movements in two different spots) for the same reason why you dropped the "o" in "not" when typing the word doesn't -- because speakers of English drop sounds and contract words. Such reduction of language may make it more challenging for new learners but makes it easier and faster for those of us who actually use the language on a daily basis to have real-life, efficient conversations. Your comment that "sign is supposed to be a picture language" could benefit from a bit of deeper knowledge and re-thinking. This is a language -- not mime. Sign language is a "visual" language, yes, but it uses "signs" not "pictures." Sign language is comprised of articulatory bundles of information conveyed by handshapes, movement, location, palm orientation and often influenced by facial expression. Those articulatory bundles of information are called "signs." I do understand that by "pictures" you mean "look like what it represents." Yes, there is no doubt that many signs do share some visual features with the concepts they are used to represent. This is known as "iconicity." Certainly not all signs are iconic. ("Iconic" is just a fancy word that in this situation means "looks like"). Even those signs that are highly iconic tend to over-time become less and less iconic in exchange for becoming more efficient and easier to produce on the hands.

[@tonycsign951]

three hundred videos

[@sign-language]

Hello tonycSign! I'm just getting warmed up. (Heh.) Take care, and have a great Autumn.