In my ELA class we were working in groups and I noticed that the deaf student hadn't joined a group yet. I asked him if he wanted to join my group and he did. We became really good friends and we texted a lot, but there was still a language barrier. On my birthday he gave me a present and he went back across the room, and when he looked back, i signed thank you. I was really scared at how he would react, but as soon as i signed it his face lit up and he mouthed you're welcome. It was that moment that i knew i wanted to learn the language.
@triciagarrett88917 жыл бұрын
Thank you for these videos! They are great. I first wanted to learn to sign at about 9 years old. There was a deaf girl about my age in my church and I saw her signing with her mom. But her mom and dad were both involved in the church service, so she would end up sitting alone and reading or doodling the whole time. I decided that I would learn to sign so that I could talk to her and we could sit together at church. I bought a book and taught myself to say, "Hi, my name is Tricia. I want to learn Sign Language. Will you help me?" She was so excited!! Her face lit up and she hugged me! We became the best of friends and the rest is history. I am so sad to say that Nadine was diagnosed with cancer and passed away at the very young age of 25. I miss her so much!! Just a few weeks ago, I saw an Instagram video on signing and that re-sparked my interest. I'm refreshing myself and really getting into ASL grammar, sentence structure, etc. Thank you for all you do!!
@ytfp6 жыл бұрын
Wow you are an amazing person! Such a wonderful and heart touching story
@cyfoo722 жыл бұрын
God bless you because u want to learn ASL.
@michellesmith53277 жыл бұрын
what caught my heart? Seeing the power of ASL together with music... yeah, I know... lots of discussion around music and sign, but that's my story. Two very powerful communicators.
@Avvytootz9 жыл бұрын
Thankyou for these free asl lessons rochelle. ☺️
@MegaSupernova8889 жыл бұрын
The moment that I knew I had to keep signing was when I was able to hold a conversation with my friend who's also learning ASL and no-one around us knew what we were saying. She was annoyed with the behavior of another person in the room, so she started angrily ranting to me in sign language, and we both thought it was so cool that we could say whatever we needed to despite the situation we were in. That being said, she and I were definitely signing back and forth in SEE rather than true ASL, but that's exactly why I'm watching this video. :)
@cyfoo722 жыл бұрын
I am appreciate that you have explained about ASL grammar to help the Deaf understand so clear. God bless you.
@katnicole4368 жыл бұрын
I am an student actress in an advanced class and when your acting you can't worry about if you look stupid or weird or like a crazy person you have to focus on how to get your message across as your character through faces and movements you explained this very well thank you for sharing this
@jilliandryer41134 жыл бұрын
I have 2 moments, the first being I read a story about 2 foster dads and one of them was deaf. They took in a little boy who couldn't hear a thing and taught him how to sign so he could communicate with the world and I thought that was so beautiful. The second happened when I got sick about a year ago and had an ear infection so bad I couldn't hear out of my left ear and not so well out of my right. I got by on lip reading and having people write down what I needed to know, but it was hard. So now I am studying sign.
@kayleighirby7 жыл бұрын
Love these videos! I went to a class with my mom when I was in elementary school and have loved sign language ever since. It's one language I feel confident learning because of the movement... I'm hoping to incorporate it in my instruction when I start teaching elementary school.
@kawaiiwolfie13855 жыл бұрын
For me, I wanted to learn ASL just about half a year ago when I watched a show including deaf people. And then, as I was watching that show, I just saw what a beautiful language it was (and always will be) and that's when I knew that I wanted to learn sign language.
@thisurldoesnotexist5 жыл бұрын
Right now I'm in an ASL class in college and I was immediately overwhelmed by it (still am on occasion), but we have to watch youtube videos and stuff for the class for a grade (what I'm doing now, procrastinated as usual) and the very first video that really got to me was when I learned the signs family and friends, which legitimately excited me.
@ShipwreckSamantha6 жыл бұрын
I started learning sign language because I noticed my now best friend (who is hearing) was signing to people and no one understood her. I decided I wanted to learn so she could have someone to sign with, little did I know how quickly I’d fall in love with the language. It’s nice being able to communicate with someone across the room or when you’re in a quiet situation. On top of that, not long after I started learning I thought I was loosing my hearing, and that motivated me to learn more quickly. Thankfully that wasn’t the case, but I still strive to learn more. Thank you for making these videos!
@Maddogtothemax6 жыл бұрын
I've always admired asl and wanted to learn but just brushed it off bc I was a kid. And now I'm so determined to learn asl because I get scared about talking and wanted an easier way to communicate. And recently I learned my uncle had a deaf friend he played football with and he would give him the signs and told him all the play and thats encouraging me to learn asl even more so thank you for these *really* healpfull videos :)
@autumnbrookesings8 жыл бұрын
For as long as I can remember, my mom has taught us a few sign language words (more, food, water, etc.). I always like it. In the 5th grade, a bunch of my friends and I decided to learn the alphabet so that we could communicate during the long hours after standardized testing that we were required to be silent. Knowing only letters, communicating anything took quite a bit of time, but we had a lot of fun. I've always wanted to learn ASL, but I think that desire was reiterated when I attended a convention that had ASL interpreters off to the side of all of the main events. My eyes were drawn to them, and I really enjoyed watching them sign and really act out what was being said on stage. I love watching people sign, and it has inspired me to learn to do so as well :)
@jinnee69996 жыл бұрын
17:35 It was Koe no Katachi, "A Silent Voice" the manga, not the movie, that made me want to learn sign language
@yanzanzz12894 жыл бұрын
So much passion and love ♥️ God bless you and your family.
@supersign65628 жыл бұрын
My friend was deaf and taught a group of friends and I a little bit. I actually signed a first name basis conversation with him and it was so cold! I wanted to learn the actual grammar because he told me I was signing PSE and not ASL. I'm making a channel based off of sign language too but I want to learn the grammar more before I continue and this is helpful!
@kawaiiwolfie13855 жыл бұрын
I also want to make a channel :)
@mollygransinger53136 жыл бұрын
Your lessons make me feel like I can finally learn this language that I fell in love with years ago! Thank you!
@ytfp6 жыл бұрын
Such a great teacher. Everyone who is learning ASL should really watch this series. I loved your ice cream story it was an amazing example!
@michaelhobson95899 жыл бұрын
I recently started back to school to get my interpreting degree. Love to watch these videos to help me. Thank you for posting them!
@fofannagraves32516 жыл бұрын
I love these videos so much! They’re so helpful! I started wanting to learn asl when I was really little when I would watch this signing show for kids. Then the show got canceled and I got off of asl for a while, but then I read a book where one of the main characters best friends was deaf and I started thinking “asl would be really fun to learn!”
@xexxex47037 жыл бұрын
Love your videos! I work with an ASL interpreter and I'm now somewhat obsessed with the lang! I love ur vids and I can't wait to explore this awesome new way of communicating!!!
@chachos963706 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad I managed to find this video! I was having trouble understanding facial expressions, body language and especially sentences. Thank you so much for all the workbooks. At least now I can do a lot of practice using the workbook. Your videos are very inspirational!!
@Woahhhitsmonica7 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for these videos! I'm getting more informed with your videos rather then my ASL classes. I appreciate your videos and worksheets.
@markchavez_19189 жыл бұрын
Thank You Rochelle. Your the best!
@bari64197 жыл бұрын
this was awesome and such a huge help, i recently finish asl 101 but i have a bad habit of signing English and this was very helpful.
@honeyspoonbeewrangler45503 жыл бұрын
It is intuitive... when I was a young child, I learned the alphabet and some words but never learned how to use in proper ASL signing. At 52 young, I actually still remember the ASL alphabet. I married a man who's deaf in one ear, and often not well out of the other. I am beginning to think that it is best for me to learn and start using and helping him to get interest in learning. I get a little frustrated in repeating myself 3 times and often.
@raebabe42074 жыл бұрын
When I was in elementary school and at the time I didn't know what sign language was. So I saw these two girl signing what I thought was gang signs and I freaked out and told them they can't be doing that. The girl who was hearing laughed and told me that the other girl was deaf and explained to me that she needed to communicate through sign. After that I understood and had asked them if they could teach me some I absolutely fell in love with the language and from then on started to teach myself and have been learning for 15 years now.
@DarkAurora20029 жыл бұрын
Please add proper closed captions to your videos. I am hard of hearing in my left ear and this video isn't very loud
@karlia.k.a1175Kenzing5 жыл бұрын
That dialogue was good, I was able to understand the tone and the signs. Thank you :)
@CHrisPetE0567 жыл бұрын
thank you so much, this amazing and so helpful. i can't wait to practice with my husband and see if he can tell what I am saying. It's like I have to channel all the games of charades I have played, but step it up so I can add the signs and make in conversational and not just a game. I have wanted to learn for so long, but let life get in the way. That ends now. ASL here I come.
@Theiccraft9 жыл бұрын
This helps!!!! I'm like u I'm just fascinated with the language and feel I want to learn and hope ply get close to being very clear
@nicholassage15608 жыл бұрын
People were talking about me in ASL at a place I was working at. I am tired of not knowing ASL so I am learning it to find out what people are saying. I would also like to be able to speak with the deaf community.
@battleaxel5 жыл бұрын
I found a YT channel that signed songs and it looked cool so I tried copying them and I liked it so I wanted to learn
@susanweber4047 жыл бұрын
thank you for your encouraging spirit. This is so helpful. I struggle with my spacing. I was told I was rocking too much. How can I get the point that I am identifying another role without making it too abrupt or confusing
@ansleysjourney75825 жыл бұрын
If you added the time to when u said “store go.” Would it be “now store go”? Or something like that?
@simstarplanet18326 жыл бұрын
Woah i didn't know any of these signs you used at that mother and kid point but i still understood it !
@arizona6316 жыл бұрын
The moment that made me want to learn sign language is when I fell in love with a deaf girl lmao
@taramartin84697 жыл бұрын
I wish I had found your videos earlier Rochelle! But now I will a better understanding of the grammar rules of ASL because of them. I am taking an ASL 3 course this summer and have done poorly because I have found the grammar piece confusing but you have made it so much more accessible. I do have a question though. I am still having a really hard time reading fingerspelled words. In my course, my instructor was awesome but we did 60 hours in three weeks and I thought the acceleration of the class would help because it was so in depth but, I am still lost because of the speed in which he fingerspelled the words. I was wondering if you had any suggestions to help me in recognizing words more quickly.
@elizabethstrathman94266 жыл бұрын
I have difficulty as well... my suggestion is to either buy a work book for finger spelling or continue watching videos on finger spelling... all I've memorized is the alphabet I still get g and q confused... if someone finger spells thank you I just stare in confusion but really I'm saying what I'm rusty in my head
@yottoo.50378 жыл бұрын
Thanks for another great video! You're a good teacher. I wish you were still making videos like this, but I see you haven't posted any new videos for awhile. :-(
@yottoo.50378 жыл бұрын
***** - Congratulations on your new baby! I can only imagine how busy you must be with 6 children! God bless you all, and I look forward to more of your ASL videos when you get a chance. :-)
@Regina-M-w3q7 жыл бұрын
Rochelle, I was watching a video of Bill Vicars teaching & he didn't seem to have change sentence structure. Please, can you help me understand why a deaf man teaches different? I love your teachings. Thank you.
@lightningtreeband8 жыл бұрын
In answer to your question about what got people interested in sign. When I was a small child my best friend had a baby brother. I saw some people outside their house when the baby got a little older and they were signing. (I realize now this is probably around the time they discovered he was Deaf). In my little alpha wave childhood brain I remember thinking that they were communicating in a secret code. And I wanted to know that code, I wanted to be included. Because I was over at my friend's house across the street about every waking hour, I learned to communicate with the little boy along with my friend and her family. When I started school our family moved around alot because of my Dad's job. We always ended up at schools with a Deaf education program. (Lucky me) I was always the new kid and other kids can be mean when you transfer in middle of year. So I found myself making friends most easily with students who are Deaf on the play ground. They did not shun me for being the new kid. The friends I made who were Deaf accepted me immediately without being mean at all. I guess in addition to wanting to be in on the "secret code" getting to know people I was around when I was little is what got me so motivated to learn sign language at such a young age.
@cyrus8047 жыл бұрын
Does the time plus topic plus comment, for every single sentence?
@koicheah91059 жыл бұрын
Yoda talking time. Lets go
@Morgan-ni3mu6 жыл бұрын
Koi Cheah I thought that when I started!!!
@marissaderespinis6166 жыл бұрын
How would you determine whether I’m telling someone to go to the store, or saying that I’m going to the store, when I use the sentence “store go”
@sediye7 жыл бұрын
thanks, appreciate it too. The introductions to the videos take too long though. good job though, ever grateful.
@garynelson95385 жыл бұрын
I'm laughing soooo hard!! I'm a male and totally could not relate to your pregnant example..and at the same time, I'v weight lifted for over 20years and absolutely is screaming "Noooooo" at your example of a weight lifter! It was so funny! lol.I love your Vids!!
@angelamulvihill1233 Жыл бұрын
I can’t access the pdfs :(
@cyrus8047 жыл бұрын
Sorry I did not word that to well. Does time, plus topic, plus comment work for every sentence?
@abigailpotts75857 жыл бұрын
We love you!!!!
@AB-vm3kh9 жыл бұрын
awesome!
@madde.rose27 жыл бұрын
I read that it takes years to become fluent and it kinda made me un encouraged so I'm trying twice as hard and learning as much as I can so I can be fluent through hs
@madde.rose27 жыл бұрын
I was hoping to make more friends in college and to expand my conversations. Plus there's this really cute girl who speaks asl in my class...
@madde.rose27 жыл бұрын
*discouraging
@mejia810046 жыл бұрын
Fluent basically is being able to understand and "speak" at the level you do with your primary language Being able to communicate is different, so don't get too discouraged bc it will take a lot of time to get to fluency.... you will be able to communicate long before that
@lemon07996 жыл бұрын
I’ve never had one of those “lightening moments” I just kinda wanted to. I have photographic memory, so I though why not.
@gameel688 жыл бұрын
thanks .
@billmaghan11 ай бұрын
People bend forward with a heavy backpack.
@abdulsamed91338 жыл бұрын
It will different sign language
@haniyyahn4 жыл бұрын
How does one express personality vonsistently then. Speaking English, if someone is naturally reserved or an introvert you dont expect lots visible in terms of facial and body language. Ditto for people who want to seem sophisticated or extra professional. How does that work with ASL because it sounds like during any given encounter or when telling a story there will be these charades moments during which one shows the emotion. When then in interacting in ASL can one one's actual personality if one is more reserved? Plus what about people who are autistic. The assumption seems to be that everyone can make voluntary facial expressions but this often isn't true with someone who's autistic. What then?
@TeenChef07 жыл бұрын
If I wanted to sign, "I really want to go to school", would I sign... School-really-want-to go? I'm still trying to understand the grammar for sentences that don't only contain one topic and comment.
@michellesmith53277 жыл бұрын
Hi Lily... if you break it down as per the worksheet Time: none Topic: school Comment: I really want to go... I believe it would gloss more like this SCHOOL? WANT (NMS really as you sign want) GO. No question mark at the end and you don't HAVE to put in "me" want... but you could if you want to emphasize that YOU want to go.... any other discussion???
@itsthetreesknees6 жыл бұрын
15:55 yOu SaId Do Do HaH hAh
@itsthetreesknees6 жыл бұрын
im sorry i had to
@xxshevilxx7 жыл бұрын
Five children? 15:07 Wow I was right, that was full on 'mommy mode' in your other video! lol Some things you just can't fake. lol
@GettingMeBack129 жыл бұрын
Where would you put a pronoun in an ASL sentence (topic, comment, other?)
@elizabethstrathman94266 жыл бұрын
sentence structure is confusing me! I guess its like learning Korean only in English.. lol
@julissasoto15386 жыл бұрын
Haha I feel you. Been learning Korean for 3 years now but it's super confusing
@elizabethstrathman94266 жыл бұрын
what if you're rusty with your vocabulary skills? if you mean to say thank you and your say fuck you it will hurt someone or even insult them!
@jamiebridgeman8787 жыл бұрын
The practice sheets lead to a 404 error page
@jamieferreira67598 жыл бұрын
Ok you are doing a good thing to help non-deaf people to learn how to do ASL You claim that all the videos on here aren't right to teach non deaf people how to ASL. There are people here on Youtuve that are done by deaf people so I am sure they know, also why can't you do sign language while your talking in this video if you are as good as any one else on here. You have not convince me enough to buy your course. Thank you anyways.
@darkdragonite14198 жыл бұрын
You introduce topic+comment structure but hardly give any examples.
@pg18916 жыл бұрын
I think brcaise roght now she is work on #2 of the ASl Model which is body language. She. Just answered a viewers question as to why it seemed backwards. But i am sure at some point their will be more examples when she gets to that. I hope cuz that is where i am very interested in learning
@bugnutsrunnels6 жыл бұрын
BACK THE CAMERA UP SO WE CAN SEE YOUR SIGNING! MOST OF YOUR SIGNING SPACE IS CUT OFF!!!!!