American Sign Language (ASL) "Phrases" (01)

[@sign-language]

Hello ASL Heroes!!! If you’ve enjoyed these lessons or videos you are invited to help support ASL University. A donation from you would instantly make a big difference here at the studio because teachers don’t earn much and I could use some help paying for server and domain hosting for the ASL University website: Lifeprint.com. There's an easy way you can help out your humble (as well as kind, caring, generous, compassionate, helpful, friendly, fair, and hard-working) ASL teacher. Just click on the Paypal (donation) link below and you can be an "above and beyond" ASL Hero! www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=64QMBRBXQSV6G Thanks! - Dr. Bill ========================== p.s. Want to have your very own USB drive with four semesters worth of ASL instruction (that’s the equivalent of two years of colleges classes) for just $79.95? See "SuperUSB" in the ASLUniversity bookstore at: lifeprint.com/bookstore/bookstore.htm Take care and my best to you all. :)

[@carmentejada7532]

Hello 👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 you good Ok

[@pumpkinpieminecraft4396]

Thank you so much! I am trying to learn ASL and am using ur videos/ sites!

[@MsCathydoll]

Please note that he's also signing the numbers before each phrase!

[@likkeo97]

MsCathydoll thank you!

[@AndreaCastillo-ix8cu]

It took me a while to figure that out. LOL.

[@elio3309]

MsCathydoll oh I didn't know how did you notice

[@AyresRyder]

learning a sign a day to talk with the deaf guy at work :D 0:30 keep working 0:37 that's very good 0:48 please come here 0:56 good job #signlanguage #awesomeness #signlanguageforwork

[@thatgirlcheryl1969]

I am one of Jehovah’s Witnesses and learning ASL to help teach the Bible to the Deaf and your Lessons & Videos are a TREMENDOUS help. Thank you!

[@FolksFox]

Thank you for being straight to the point and actually making a video with no sound. It’s so upsetting that the top videos that come up when looking up sign language phrases are littered with catchy commercial background music and self promotion.

[@CruzFiancee]

I'm so grateful Dr. Bill for your vids. I have learned so much and taught my 4 and 7 year old. We are all hearing but I love learning asl. I want to become an interpreter one day.

[@jamesmichael9341]

So did you become one?

[@hopefulstar43]

@@jamesmichael9341 I hope so, hope we'll get a answer

[@My-cute-baby-sister]

@@hopefulstar43 wakanda forever love 🙅🏾‍♀️

[@DariusWhitmore]

Great phrases to know, one and all. The expression on your face helps with the context of the phrase also. Thanks Dr Bill :)

[@najma2613]

WOW!!! I'm a "begginer" asl leaner, I've been learning dozens of words through apps and such, and I must say your video just reassured mr I'm on the right path. I understood everything you did! thanks for this video!

[@emilystar5643]

what apps have you been using?? I just started and I want to make sure I'm doing everything right!!

[@najma2613]

Emilystar56 it's the memrise app. Go to languages and input beginner asl. An official one should pop up. There are several to chose from.

[@sign-language]

How to use ASL University to learn sign language for free: 1. Visit Lifeprint.com and become familiar with the ASL University website. 2. Bookmark the official ASLU KZbin master playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PL6akqFwEeSpiLwRFA3ZvuOWMwPXwI7NqA 3. For quick reviews (to prevent memory extinction) bookmark the "Signs" channel playlist page: kzbin.infoplaylists 4. If you use a desktop or laptop computer you can look up signs using this page: www.lifeprint.com/search.htm 5. If you use a mobile device you can look up signs using this page: www.lifeprint.com/search/index.htm 6. If you can’t find a sign after using the search options at Lifeprint.com then consider applying to join the Lifeprint-ASLU Facebook group and asking your question there. See: facebook.com/groups/Lifeprint.ASLU/ 7. Go through the ASLU Lessons for free: www.lifeprint.com/asl101/lessons/lessons.htm Your comments, questions, or suggestions are always welcome. To contact Dr. Bill Vicars, see: www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/contact.htm Ways to support the ASL University channel: 1. Click the “thumb up” (like) icon on videos at KZbin.com/billvicars 2. Click the “subscribe” button at KZbin.com/billvicars (if you haven't done so yet) 3. Click the “Share” link and share the videos. 4. Visit the “ASLU” bookstore at www.lifeprint.com/bookstore/bookstore.htm (feel free to suggest new products that you would like to see). 5. Buy some ASL University “official” clothing at: ASLU gear: teespring.com/stores/aslu 6. Subscribe to the ASLU subscription site: asl.tc (For information see: lifeprint.com/asltc/ ) 7. Donate via: www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=64QMBRBXQSV6G 8. For other donation options, see: www.Lifeprint.com/donate.htm If you have any friends who might be in a position to do so you might want to consider inviting them to donate -- thus supporting Deaf children and the promotion of free sign language resources via Lifeprint.com

[@JPHILL801]

Really easy to understand, I love it!

[@emilykoo8196]

Hi Dr. Bill. Long time viewer, first time commenter. Taking an ASL course because I work in a refugee resettlement organization in the Midwest that resettles a fairly large group of deaf refugees. Love the videos! Are you as charismatic in real life as you are in the videos? So many language-learning videos are so dry, but your videos are a pleasure to watch.

[@ExtremelyLegit]

very helpful.. i cant quite get 'good job" but i just keep going back agian and again..thank you Dr. Bill. ~MomOfReed

[@DivinetressBeautyLocs]

he finger spelled J-O-B and he did the sign for Good. hope this helps. I'm deaf it's easy .

[@sergiovscalvin]

I'M SO HAPPY YOU CAN HELP ME..JUST FOUND YOU and MAN !! YOUR A BIG HELP

[@melainemallory5384]

I like this format

[@Shody]

0:02 Wakanda Forever = Love❤ Never knew that

[@luizpigeon]

muito legal, tambem estou aprendendo LIBRAS, LINGUAS DE SINAIS BRASILEIRO e agora quero aprender ASL. very nice , also im learning LIBRAS and now im doing my best to learn english ASL. bom video, nice video

[@castlebreaker4260]

The third one (do you need to go to the bathroom) is the hardest one in my opinion

[@vikkiedwards235]

CastleBreaker For my children, I sign "toilet" with raised eyebrows. The sign for "toilet" is your t-hand shape shaken side-to-side.

[@dootdoot069]

It's just: you+need+go+toilet with eyebrows raised to indicate a question. You is point at them, need is x hand "nodding" once or twice, go is both hands pointing somewhere, and toilet is the t hand shaking side to side. Sometimes I just sign toilet with my eyebrows up.

[@lisahinton9682]

@@dootdoot069 Eyebrows up indicates a yes/no question only. For who, what, where, why, when, and how, the eyebrows aren't up, but furrowed.

[@sign-language]

Lisa: Something else to consider: In addition to yes-no questions -- raised eyebrows can be used to create rhetorical questions out of who, why, what, when, where, how, etc. So, if you see a sign like WHY done with eyebrows up it (probably) indicates that it is being used "rhetorically." For more information on this topic, see: www.lifeprint.com/asl101/topics/rhetorical-questions.htm

[@chrisrj9871]

@@sign-language - What about "yes/no" rhetorical questions? Such as Homer Simpson's "Do I know what rhetorical means?!"

[@alanlock007]

I appreciate this

[@darleneguti]

Love your videos!

[@ChristineTHuynh]

I love your channel...great review of asl signs

[@karamarie6781]

Love love love your videos!

[@aninwabuachie3428]

He’s iconic

[@KidFabulous72]

can the thumb, point finger, and pinky up (almost most like a rock star) be used as a short-hand "I love you"?

[@MriluvJordanJansen]

Yes.

[@meccathornton4533]

Yes

[@Gotham_Moon]

The one-handed "I love you" sign is more informal, like "luv ya!" The one that Dr. Vicars does here is more .... well, not really formal... but deeper?

[@judylimpio5697]

Thnk u it's a big help for me I'm first timer in ASL just self study

[@mirandaadams8134]

I would like to ask if you could post a video showing how to sign I still love you.

[@theotherveronica]

I think one way that could work is using the first sign he used in keep working before signing I love. The one where you put your thumbs together and push forward. That means continue/still

[@rosiev.hidalgo5590]

Thank you...is there a way you can repeat the signs twice? I would like to learn and teach my boy. He's a Non-verbal AUTISTIC BOY..

[@tiffanyscarlett9594]

You could slow down the speed in the settings. That's what I do.

[@My-cute-baby-sister]

Wakanda forever love 🙅🏾‍♀️

[@illuminatedrose]

Hi Dr. Bill, I enjoyed a few of your videos today. My granddaughter was taught to sign a song in school and now she is very interested in learning to sign so she can talk to a hearing impaired friend as well using this to help others in the future. I would like to get a series of lessons for her to begin to learn this when she has time…she has no time to attend a weekly class. Can you recommend a DVD course. she is an adolescent.

[@elinaq750]

why is the continue used in the keep working? and not the keep where practiccally take two v's shaped with your middle and pointy finger, put the rest of the fingers into a fist?

[@sign-language]

Because the KEEP sign tends to mean "retain." The CONTINUE sign means to persist in an activity or process. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIemXnmvZq12gdU

[@paulcloutier8870]

I love it! It was so helpful! Thank you!

[@ninananuchi5741]

thank you,Bill!..

[@teaareuh]

If you would like to quiz yourself here is what you have learned: 1. I love you 2. What's wrong? 3. Do you need to go to the bathroom? 4. Do you want a hug? 5. Keep working 6. That's very good! 7. Please come here 8. Good job 9. Try again! 10. Calm down

[@javierulisesbecerrilesparz9920]

I feel like I'm finally learning

[@sign-language]

Javier, See below for a few tips to accelerate your learning: How to use ASL University to learn sign language for free: 1. Visit Lifeprint.com and become familiar with the ASL University website. 2. Bookmark the official ASLU KZbin master playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PL6akqFwEeSpiLwRFA3ZvuOWMwPXwI7NqA 3. For quick reviews (to prevent memory extinction) bookmark the "Signs" channel playlist page: kzbin.infoplaylists 4. If you use a desktop or laptop computer you can look up signs using this page: www.lifeprint.com/search.htm 5. If you use a mobile device you can look up signs using this page: www.lifeprint.com/search/index.htm 6. If you can’t find a sign after using the search options at Lifeprint.com then consider applying to join the Lifeprint-ASLU Facebook group and asking your question there. See: facebook.com/groups/Lifeprint.ASLU/ 7. Go through the ASLU Lessons for free: www.lifeprint.com/asl101/lessons/lessons.htm Your comments, questions, or suggestions are always welcome. To contact Dr. Bill Vicars, see: www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/contact.htm Ways to support the ASL University channel: * For donation options, see: www.Lifeprint.com/donate.htm * Click the “thumb up” (like) icon on videos at KZbin.com/billvicars * Click the “subscribe” button at KZbin.com/billvicars (if you haven't done so yet) * Click the “Share” link and share the videos. Thanks!

[@Fe4Christ]

Bill, When you are signing "That's very good" You use a straight index finger pulling away from your chin. Is that "very"? I read on life print (It looks like the sign "BIG" but is done with "V" handshapes.) I just want to double check.

[@hannahrose8175]

As far as I know, that sign means anything related to "really," "actually," "am," "are," "is," etcetera, so I would assume that "very" can also be used in place of really and actually. But I'm learning that there are multiple signs for different things, so both could be accurate versions of "very"! :)

[@m.r5840]

Its the actual sign for "true" ! The sign for "true" can be used to mean many English concepts such as: sure, indeed, absolutely, "you're welcome," real, really, so, very, etc...

[@fatcat9143]

Is this only for Americans

[@elinaq750]

speak, say, tell, finger or hand used near mouth? :)

[@sherilynpalmer8]

Can you teach how to do deaf sentences I know they don't sign the straight English

[@melaniewilliams4521]

I love your vids

[@Santiagoreal17]

I really learn something new verry good

[@rdlaforge64]

good videos

[@DanielGarcia-ky7cp]

thanks

[@alphaman6425]

Why did Our sign language teacher has so badass look😲😲😲

[@sign-language]

That is a real compliment coming from an "Alpha Man" such as yourself!

[@nerdyhamster1312]

Thank you

[@jenifermoreira368]

What is ASL ? What does ASL mean?

[@thomvankeuren5531]

what is the sign for closed, as in " the store is closed"? or can the sign for closed be used?

[@sign-language]

For "closed" as in a store that is not open: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5W7nmR3ndyAeK8 That is a general sign and works well. For closed as in a store that is permanently shut down or out of business: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnqqemyaq8x-osk

[@tiffanyscarlett9594]

How do you sign "hold on", like to ask somebody to hold on? Is it the same sign as "wait"?

[@sign-language]

See: kzbin.info/door/Zy9xs6Tn9vWqN_5l0EEIZAsearch?query=hold+on For future individual sign questions, replace the query in that web address with the word you want (or words connected with the + symbol).

[@myszabo79]

It would be nice if the phrases were repeated a couple of times before going to the next one.

[@sign-language]

On a keyboard try using the J key or the left arrow to "repeat." Go back 5 seconds = Left arrow Go back 10 seconds = j Go forward 5 seconds = Right arrow

[@DanielGarcia-ky7cp]

what's a good asl app for android? please

[@whymee123]

for #5 what is the sign used before work? I am unformiliar with that one.

[@sign-language]

The sign CONTINUE can be used to mean "keep" when the meaning of "keep" means "continue." See: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIemXnmvZq12gdU

[@lilasundari3213]

Awesome thanks so much! I wish I could slow it down a bit :P

[@tiffanyscarlett9594]

In the settings "wheel" at the bottom right of the screen, you can slow it down, or speed it up

[@succubus999]

is asl same grammar as speaking english?

[@sign-language]

Regarding the grammar of ASL, see: www.lifeprint.com/asl101/topics/subject-verb-object-asl-sentence-structure.htm Also see: www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/grammar.htm

[@RKDTheatre]

The sign should each have been repeated a 2nd time and slower

[@ciaralizamar]

awsome

[@kevinsundelin8639]

why are likes and dislikes turned off?

[@sign-language]

Lack of self-confidence on my part (early days). I preferred (at the time) to control my exposure. These days on new videos I leave the like/dislike buttons turned on.

[@Liv.martins]

Can you please slow down a bit, I can't really keep up

[@AyresRyder]

Live Music I went to settings and slowed down youtube to half speed and that helped me #signlanguage

[@andrewchung5447]

If you could slow down a bit that'd be helpful.

[@sassirached9624]

Rached lam Yes deaf ok ❤🤟

[@annadavis8531]

My friend can not hear

[@vadershero]

I wish there was a slowed down version of this, but he's got some nice videos

[@TACOMA98408]

I AM TRYING TO LEARN SOME SIGN LANGUAGE BUT I THINK YOU ARE GOING TOO FAST FOR BEGINNERS. THANKS FOR VIDEO.

[@raqueljoyce9399]

I agree. Wish he would slow down & show it twice.

[@redolentofmark]

Signing in a natural way is best

[@leekezar1344]

this was 2 years ago but now you can slow a video down in the settings.

[@elisejackson2854]

if you go in the settings you an slow it down to 0.5. that's what i do.

[@annmarieyumaeann]

You all should check out his 100 ASL Signs Beginner Class Video!!!

[@tony8a32]

Sorry but it's to fast for me . I'm just learning . Thank you

[@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

[@edwinsaysbleh1649]

😁😁😁😁

[@nere1331]

I love your videos, but it goes way to fast for us to try and repeat what you have done :(

[@sign-language]

I agree totally. I prefer having a student with me (as in my other videos) since it slows me down to a more realistic speed for beginners. I've been told though that youtube now has a speed setting for videos so you might want to try that.

[@ELNLaboy]

Bill Vicars I'm Puertorrican Speech Language Therapist and I practice with your videos ASL, I love it

[@kabutoyakushi6618]

I also love all of your videos and think the speed is just fine. I can just repeat the lessons over and over anyways. You are basically my ASL teacher :)

[@divineandesoteric]

i agree, its too fast please re eat what you've done thank you

[@keniaguzman7366]

Alex N halo good your won ?:)😙👍

[@ishakHafiz12]

The way this guy looks like Walter White

[@sign-language]

He's the one that knocks... I'm the one that signs.

[@faithmcclanahan2271]

I am trying to learn asl and it could help a lot if you slowed down .

[@MOJO-by2iv]

Haha! As a female psychologist (yes, dr. also), I can tell you that “calm down” is not a phrase to be used on women - ESPECIALLY coming from a man...EVER! 🤣

[@vesnaarg]

Way too fast..

[@sign-language]

+Vesna Arguedas Most youtube videos have a speed configuration setting that you can use to slow down the video.

[@Kaypee777]

+Vesna Arguedas I am learning ASL and thankfully discovered you can adjust the speed, I use .50 or .25 if it's really unfamiliar.

[@castlebreaker4260]

+Vesna Arguedas Agreed

[@Gotham_Moon]

I've been watching his lesson videos. I'm on video #10 now, and repeat some if I don't catch everything. That has given me exposure to ASL and I found this video of 10 common phrases to be at a speed that is easy for me to understand. Have you been watching his other videos as well to get acclimated to it?

[@elisejackson2854]

click on settings and slow it down to 0.5

[@cowtipr]

Way too fast. I had to keep rewinding to see each sign in the phrases. Need to show slower and more than one time.

[@sign-language]

I agree totally. This "throwing a bunch of signs at the camera" is not a good approach for beginners. I much prefer to teach a real student seated next to me. Try one of my other videos with the one-on-one instructional format. For example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5LRdKuabJarf9E

[@cowtipr]

I have done so. This was just one of your many videos I have viewed thanks for all the help.

[@charleanebailey-lake6513]

Mom .?Friday Mom Charles ALS and

[@paulcloutier8870]

It was hard to understand. sorry.

[@paulcloutier8870]

JK