Sign Language Sentences- The Basic Structure

[@alexandramae6600]

OMG! I'm a newbie to ASL and I had no idea the grammar was so different!

[@AG-nc7wj]

Yes, you will learn it fast :-D . Contact me if you need deaf asl tutor online.

[@Eyeofjnee]

A G id like help please😕

[@StainLessSteel.]

A G PLZZZZZZ HELP ME IM SO CONFUSEDDDD

[@kimberlyhovis5864]

I didn't realize this either.

[@daxlagoslanguageguy0072]

I understand you, I'm stuck on grammar vocabulary and sentence structure

[@catalinap6645]

Ok so here's a list of words I think you should do- Superficial, song, stereotype, piano, backpack, toilet paper, forgot, lost, difficult, easy, what's up?, try Also I think that it would be cool if instead of just a million videos with only one sign, you could do one video with related words. Here's a list of group sign video ideas- Instruments, sports, rooms (like living room, bathroom, etc), theatre words, races (Polish, filipino, etc), sexualities These are all just ideas! Love your channel & anything you choose to do will be rad 👍🏻

[@lisajaglowitz]

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[@jewelbrooks5772]

Out of all the ASL type channels on KZbin, you are by FAR the best teacher I've watched. I started learning ASL because one of my friends at school is deaf and I wanted to better communicate with him and now I'm finally doing that. He tells me I'm really improving and we are actually starting to have conversations and understanding one another and it's amazing! Thank you so, so much!!

[@balls7392]

When I saw the beginning, I was so confused! I continued to watch it and it made more sense! You made it very easy and simple.

[@amandawyss6260]

This is truly amazing! I had my second baby in December and we were shocked to find out that he had hearing loss in both ears. We never thought that was even someone to worry about! We embraced it wholeheartedly with no sadness, because we knew it was just another amazing trait of our beautiful little boy. BUT! Though there was no sadness, there was (and still very much is) the feeling of total inadequacy. (ie, What form of communication do I choose for him? What are my resources? How can I teach him to sign when I can't sign myself? How am I ever going to meet all of his needs? How can I possibly handle this?!) We have a deaf mentor who comes to our home every week and she is helping us learn ASL. I'm great at vocabulary, but knowing sentence structure has been extremely difficult for me! I was to the point of saying "Well, I know the vocab and that's enough." I'm so grateful for the video and the great explanation of sentence structure, but even moreso, the pep talk at the end. It is EXACTLY what I needed today. I'm so incredibly grateful for this wonderful video! Keep it up! It's already made a difference for my life and I know I'm not alone in that!

[@vrooom666]

You/someone can teach him sign language but in your grammer structures it will improve his english skill to no ends.

[@brittanycullen1503]

I've been trying to figure out the complicated gramatical system for a while now. Thank you so much for making it so simple! Just subscribed 😆

[@Nazasu]

Your channel is a life saver. I've started learning ASL and making sentence's that make sense and being able to understand others sentences has been a nightmare for me so far! This really cleared up my confusion!

[@colin6152]

Rochelle I want to thank you so much for doing these videos! My wife of 15 years is deaf. She taught me how to sign but I have always been hung up on sentence stucture. I just found your videos today and now I am going to start going through them all. This one certainly has gotten me started to true A.S.L. signing instead of signed yuck english. Which of course drives my wife insane and causes alot of really humorus misunderstandings. So I say thank you once again time to get started. Cheers!

[@JenOfAllTrades]

I've been signing PSE for about 10 years. Its so hard to switch to ASL but I feel like its more grammatically correct for the deaf so I'm trying. Thank you for your awesome videos. I subbed!

[@graces9584]

Love your videos! I'm sixteen teaching myself asl through videos. One request would be to do your signs in slow motion after doing it in regular speed, it really helps!

[@jeannebradley6272]

I never comment on KZbin videos. But this was great! I’m just now seriously learning ASL for a church commitment to help others who are deaf in our church community. I loved your video and I plan to watch a lot more. I know some signs, but putting it together and practicing is going to be the key. Thanks so much for sharing your talent and enthusiasm!😊

[@ChristinaSoltren]

Hi! Thank you for this great video! The link to the worksheet does not work... do you have a new link I can use to access the worksheet? Thank you!

[@thebiggestbadestwolf]

You are awesome!! love learning with you. Thank you for helping me learn, my hearing is increasingly deteriorating and I'm anxious to learn the language because its beautiful and because I want to be able to communicate, and be active in society. Thank you again!!!

[@iexist1738]

1:14 It looks like you're already doing sign language 😂

[@estherstephens1858]

Hi just subscribed. I’ve wanted to learn ASL for so many years, however, I never did. Watching for the first time. Thank you.

[@tracysampson29]

Thank you! I am an ASL student and this video is a life saver.

[@candygreYT]

Wow! You read my mind! I almost give up in this after this video. OMG. I thought "Ok, signing ASL as SEE shouldn't be that bad", but you are right, it wouldn't be ASL. Thanks for the last advice in minute 12:17!! You help me and motivate me EVERYDAY in my way of learning ASL. Thank you for all your videos, you do more than you can imagine.

[@sayuri8]

Thank you so much for this. I know a lot of signs, but my sentences were English directly translated to ASL. This helps so much

[@p.j.4435]

So how do you decide what format to use when?? In the worksheet there are variations. Like "Topic+referent+comment" and "Topic+comment+referent"

[@TheKeenabob]

Penny W did you ever find that answer...this is whats stumping me

[@crescentcanopy2427]

Lol i'm seeing this 2 years later but me too that's what i'm struggling to find out. Did you find out?

[@jakel7133]

Rochelle your videos are very helpful and easy to understand, thank you.

[@kyxxit3664]

Hi Rochelle, I really appreciate your videos. Back in the '80's I was sent to SEE classes so I could interpret at church. I became friends with the only deaf woman who attended the church. She was so disappointed that I didn't learn ASL. So now here I am many years later and I need to practice signing so that I can be a more effective American Red Cross volunteer. You asked what kind of video we might suggest. I guess signs to conduct an interview in an emergency situation like responding to a fire or other disaster. Thanks

[@PrincessNinja007]

I've heard it both ways actually, that ASL is "proper" (and it's ableist and insulting to expect native ASL speakers to read it), and that SEE is preferred because lip readers can more easily go back and forth between the speaker and interpeter

[@karlatanner6022]

Love your videos!! They've made learning ASL so much easier, thank you!!

[@justtheessentials9629]

This is exactly what I’ve been looking for while I’ve been trying to learn ASL! Thank you for making this video! You’ve got a new subscriber!

[@charisfitchett5703]

Thanks! Needed the encouragement. Never planned on learning sign lanugage but becoming a nesscessity.

[@KD-mh3xv]

Here in the UK we have ONE grammar book for BSL and I haven't found anything in it that covers complex sentences. I've been searching for British resources for months and it's been very frustrating. Thank you SO much for this because this applies to BSL as well (obvs different signs).

[@bnlbrizzle]

Well done! I am an Interpreter and you made this fun and easy to understand. KUDOS!!

[@rachealnamwinga2979]

I am a medical student from Zambia and I really want to learn sign language.. this has helped thanks..

[@imjusthereorthere]

Racheal Namwinga this is american sign language as differnt countries have a different way to sign

[@hazelbradford4224]

I like this. It really sets the foundation for learning.

[@heidiweinert3260]

I want to learn to sign worship songs. Is it sacrilegious for me to sign the songs in English order for the sake of performance quality; especially when I am trying to teach a song to kids who are hearing? Does giving them grammar have any value if I don't teach proper ASL sentence structure. Especially considering that lyrics and poetry are fairly dependent on English sentence structure.

[@juliannedanse3066]

I have been learning PSE for about 3 months. I'm getting more comfortable with it (I obviously don't know all signs, but it's easier and I learn more quickly then when I started) so I decided to challenge myself to learn ASL. Also, could you do a video about signing to music?

[@harleyleeh3031]

I cannot tell you how much this is helping me! Thank you !

[@batmancookster]

I will being using your videos a lot with me and my daughter, now that I found your channel, I appreciate your work you put into it. I'm not deaf but I am hard of hearing, I use to interpret many years ago. I had ear surgery and loss some of hearing and things are changing for us now.

[@atlimosia9029]

I love her energy 😂❤️

[@noneedtoknowme]

Soo my professor is teaching ASL the basic standard way versus irl. But from your video, it's mostly flexible. BLESS THANK YOU FOR THIS. IM LESS CONFUSED.

[@AG-nc7wj]

That's great to hear that you got less confused. Im deaf asl tutor and I like her idea to write " Time+Topic+comment+referent " :-D

[@jennifercastro4353]

Hello, I just wanted to comment and let you know that your video is so helpful. I have recently started taking ASL classes at Texas School for the Deaf. Sentence structure has been a hard one. Your tips have been very helpful and I look forward to seeing more videos you have to offer. Question? Do you have any tips on helping with receptive skills?

[@michellesmith5327]

I felt a wave of relief when I found your site and your "group"... thanks for the foot up... so needed!! Thanks for all your effort on our behalf... and hope you're enjoying that baby #6 who is almost a year old now, right?

[@EscolaVerboemMovimento]

Hi, a question.... For the third person is the referent used in the same way?

[@thatpantransguy]

Those worksheets are so helpful!! Thank you!

[@starlasheffield402]

Thank you for taking the time to make these videos! Just a little feedback. The volume when you are talking using the graphic to explain is fastly different that the volume when you are in front of the camera talking. You need a microphone or something when you are in front of the camera so the volume for both parts can be more equal. Second: It would be helpful if when you are signed the sentences you would do it at regular speed and a slower speed. Also, do it once turned sideways.

[@taylorbaggins0922]

Thanks! This is super helpful!

[@Alice-yq6yy]

This is super helful! Thank you so much! I like that you also showed the sentences in Asl but it would be even better if you could show the sentences slower and maybe even show the signs for the word so I can learn even more! But thx so much for this video!

[@mimimimi-jn1jp]

Thank you for taking time and effort out of your day to do this. 🖤

[@ladybuglove5960]

I'm completely hearing and don't know anyone deaf (my mom is deaf in her left ear but fully hearing in her right so we don't use ASL) but I still love to learn ASL to become fluent in the language and be ready if I ever meet a deaf person at work. The world should be more open to deaf people and knowing just a few words in Sign language could turn a deaf persons world upside down just knowing that a hearing person cares enough to learn their language.

[@lameessssss1]

I love your videos I am learning sign launguage to communicate with my friends and cousins and I need you to do more videos and learn more sign language so I can learn I'm a buiiiiiig fan

[@liliacfury]

Thanks! This video was really helpful! Though, there is this one sentence I came across practicing with some lines from a show, “the girl you like is not interested in you.” Can’t figure out how to translate it, mostly because “the girl” is being used as both a subject and object.

[@anitakatsarska65]

Hii, Rochelle! It is so inspiring and funny to watch your videos and learn from them! I agree with you that whoever decides to study a language, should do it the proper way. But I have a question about songs. When you are signing during a song, should you strictly use the ASL structure of the sentences, or with songs it is less precise and you can do English order? And Thank you for your enthusiasm!!!

[@jeffhartman8714]

Excellent video! My hat is off to YOU!!!

[@taraelsa7452]

This was absolutely so helpful.

[@nicolebigler6348]

Can you do a video showing us how to sign in a song? Like is the sentence structure different?

[@eliyahurt674]

Love your new hair! Thanks for the video it helped me a lot!

[@mdsanwar6222]

Rochelle Barlow I want to learn English to you

[@princess1818ib]

Wow!! I just wanna say thanks a million for the encouragement at the end. After watching the video I said “ I’m NVER going to learn this” and almost gave up. Thank you for knowing exactly what we need to hear. The structure looks so complicated though 😩😩😩😩 I’ve only been doing this for a month. How long did it take you to learn?

[@mtnvlifestyles]

his video is very helpful. Thank you

[@jennifertisdale-morgan1630]

I'm so sad the site doesn't have the worksheet anymore :( Is there an archive access site anywhere?

[@PaganSkye]

This is great thank you so much

[@jacquelinesmith2697]

Excellent lesson! I just subscribed!

[@Zeighla]

Does Rochelle have any hearing impairment?

[@shyronjohnson6700]

New to asl looking forward to building on it, u have tips on remembering right?

[@lemon0799]

Thanks! I’ve been accidentally signing in SEE, so I wanted to fix that

[@jksmith3669]

This was super, super helpful! Thanks!!

[@jalianturner7932]

This video has helped me so much ! Thank you, you’re amazing!

[@Thegardenersclog]

Hi thanks for posting these videos, I am learning a lot . I would like to know if you could post a video about dance moves. I teach zumba and I had a deaf person in my class a few months ago but I only know finger spelling. I wonder if I told you some words I use frequently if you could teach them. Then when I break down the song I could talk to her. Thanks. Please let me know.

[@moonlightsweetener4309]

Is it the same sentence structure for questions too? Or is this structure only for statements?

[@Im15cheese]

For my entire life I’ve been learning french at school and speaking in English was banned (I know, it’s a dumb rule) so I couldn’t learn English very well, except for the 2 English classes we had every week. But in those English classes, we didn’t really learn grammar and stuff like that, we mainly learnt about poems (yet half of the class didn’t know English). So I didn’t really understand like half of the stuff in this video😅😅😅 (I’m terrible at English grammar and structure)

[@hannahsmith7693]

Your English grammar and structure is pretty good don’t sweat it and keep practicing

[@christopherjohn4559]

I want to see all the ASL grammar lessons you can do. Thank you

[@Izzy74803]

Thank you so much! This helps immensely

[@KaitlynRaeann]

The download links take me to a KARTRA page which is broken or no longer in use, it just says “this page doesn’t exist.” Is there an updated way to get your downloads / worksheets?

[@rabiawaseem9577]

Wonderful way to teach

[@megan4801]

these videos r so helpful!!! thanks so much for making them!

[@ericagracee]

Yes I need this. All I know is the alphabet and Hi my name is Erica nice to meet you. 🙂

[@ComplexSimplicT]

This is great. Thanks!

[@derikslayton718]

Heya, Rochelle! I haven't searched all your videos yet, but is there a point you cover conditional signs? Particularly the word "IF"? Would "IF" fall before or after Time/Topic?

[@Siobhanjohnson523]

same sentence structure for BSL topic comment grammar. Its really helpful given i've had to sign in Spoken English because its been so difficult to understand. Great video - maybe after ive managed to learn BSL ill Learn ASL ^_^

[@kimberlyhovis5864]

I really wish that your worksheets were still up. It was disappointing seeing, "It looks like this page doesn't exist," after clicking on your link. 🙁 Please let me know if you ever plan on putting those practice worksheets back up by replying to my comment. I am trying to learn as much as I can. Thank you for your informative video!

[@taryneruhle8186]

If I wanted to say "I am motivated and proud of who I am," how would I translate that to ASL? Because of the lack of conjunctions and prepositions used in ASL I'm struggling with how to sign this sentence.

[@Jaisha26]

I tried signing up for the practice group, but I don't see the link.

[@felipecamelo8712]

you are a wholesome blessing

[@p.j.4435]

Also, I am signing songs for church. Do I sign the songs as the words occur in the song, or do I change the sentence structure? We don't have any deaf congregants, at present. I am just signing because I want to open people up to signing and deaf community. That said, our service is televised, so there is the potential that a deaf person or persons might be watching, so I'm torn with demonstrating the vocabulary, and getting the meaning right.

[@IowaLanguages]

The links to the grammar workbook don’t work. 😢

[@Anan883]

Thank you so much !

[@GaudyGotti]

LOVELOVELOVE AND THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE WORKSHEETS YOUR THE BEST

[@ODDthoughts3]

This is so so helpful!!

[@pastorjustin419]

6:25 kind of breezed by the whole referent moving piece. Why does it not stay at the end like the previous example?

[@michellesmith5327]

have you done the complex ones yet?

[@DragonzinoirMidzt]

This is so cool!! The problem I'm having is that I can't access the worksheet??? It apparently doesn't exist?? Am I just missing something or...

[@jadaharris5190]

Can you please caption

[@charitychandler4796]

Could you do a video on grammar for questions?

[@madde.rose2]

This went right over my head

[@liliacfury]

At 3:45 there is no _Topic Comment Referent Comment_ combo, yet you used one at 9:25. Did you happen to forget to list the combo? That is the only thing I'm confused about.

[@LaishaAlfaro]

what hand do you use to make the letter D?

[@shilohhh5250]

Amazing Video, 1 Suggestion. I Reccomend Making Your Talking Louder, So We Can Hear, Other Wise Awesoe Video! It Helped LOTS!

[@jennywise2655]

Can you do each word in the sentence slower when signing

[@ebeeinthegoodlife]

Link to worksheet is missing :(

[@FearFactoryGirl85]

Can you please do a video for “condolences”. My great aunt has a daughter who is deaf and I would like to express my sorrow for the loss of her mother. I have less than a week to figure it out! Thank you so much!!!!

[@robertpanda2507]

Could you also do a slow version of signing the sentence trying to learn and hard to follow when it goes by so fast

[@AG-nc7wj]

You can turn your speed video slow down. Hope it helps

[@avaspiaggia9732]

Great video! But I’m a little confused. I have been doing asl for a while now, and I never used word structure. Did i learn all wrong? For example, when I sign songs or something, I sign word for word. I don’t use the structure or flip the word around like in this video. Am I wrong? Do you always have to use this structure?

[@Jlna_]

Ava Spiaggia What you did, was PSE (Pidgin Signed English), in which you would use english grammar and just translate it word by word into signs. It's not all wrong, I mean there are people doing this, but PSE is not an actual language (it's just pidgin). Every language needs grammar, there's not one, where you just put some words in random order. ASL (American Sign Language) is its own language and therefore I would recommend to learn ASL rather than PSE. No worries, you'll get into it. I was doing PSE for two years and thought it was ASL, because I didn't know better. Good luck!

[@kelliereviews5341]

Very good, I enjoyed your video a great deal 😊

[@stevengachara1645]

am a new learner ,how long will it take me to sign sentences

[@---ox3or]

how do you decide where to put the referent? does it matter?

[@---ox3or]

for example at 10:28 would it still be correct to sign tomorrow library go i book new get

[@gedionalemayehu7190]

HI i am deaf and how are you doing?and i want along with our young learning for ASL sign language ? you can help to me?i here live in Ethiopia.