Fingerspelling Practice (Elisa) American Sign Language (ASL)

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[@lisamr40]

This hurts my head! Lol I thought I was doing good until I watched this. This is great practice for us novices. Thanks for your helpful videos!

[@Oogieg23]

Love your videos helps me practice!! 🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼 What helps me with understanding someone else finger spelling is sounding out the letter not trying to say each letter.

[@marie6226]

I love your fingerspelling videos! They’ve helped me so much

[@veronicaalvaradomorantes379]

I enjoy watching your receptive skills videos! I started to learn ASL on my own and this youtube channel(a total gem) has helped me a lot. Thank you so much!!

[@sign-language]

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[@cyfalk9840]

When bill inspects his hand to make sure its working properly lolol

[@thrivinginamber2642]

Now I see how I'm missing a lot of the letters, part of the previous handshape remains in the next letter, and my fingers do this as well, and i'm making really tight m's and n's, like the t's, so when they go to e's and o's, all I see are partial patterns.

[@sign-language]

Check out this article about lexicalized fingerspelling: www.lifeprint.com/asl101/fingerspelling/fingerspellinglexicalized.htm

[@thrivinginamber2642]

Thank you, those are interesting points, I was planning to crawl -> walk -> run with fingerspelling, and am getting noticeably faster every day, the 50 words in a random word generator now take less time than it takes for the computer to power down the monitor (which is a lot for me haha). I learned the # ASL and # OK, but using them for the first time felt like unearned proficiency as I was still scribbling the other ones in and tangling up my fingers, but now they feel right. I also want to make an ASL scarf or something to sufficiently mark myself as "conversational" in visual communication. A few times going through people's lines I signed thank-you where they almost instinctively exclaim "oh", and "of course", and it's then I'm realizing just how quiet I am most of the time, usually letting others I'm with talk for me, you wouldn't have noticed by the sheer volume of text, which means I don't quite know what to fix just yet.

[@thrivinginamber2642]

As a new signer the differences for me in fingerspelling vs signing has to do with the physical endurance of holding my hand in one spot and articulating my fingers in complex ways, compared to a larger range of motions with directly connected concepts and a greater endurance spread over a larger area. More and more when I see signs that I learned over and over I think the word automatically just by seeing the sign, even when not paying too much attention. It's the same with a lot of the letters, and all this comes with practice. I do struggle to hold up my arm to fingerspell a large list of words for practice, and it reminds me of heavily practicing on a piano too much. It's also a lot more fun to make individual signs for everything than to basically write everything out, so I can see how someone could just end up defaulting to writing with the analog between them.

[@thrivinginamber2642]

Oh, can the sign Fingerspell, with the wavy hand, be used in place of the last word fingerspelled, and if so I'm sure that it would depend on the usual receptive things, like how long since and if it's a really long word.

[@sign-language]

For answers to such questions, you may wish to apply to join the Lifeprint-ASLU Facebook group and ask your question there. See: facebook.com/groups/Lifeprint.ASLU/ Note: You have to answer a couple of questions to get into the group. In brief, yes, the fluttered fingers is sometimes (with enough context) used to replace the last half or part of a fingerspelled word. However, it is not overly common and no excuse for not learning how to fingerspell efficiently and quickly. Rather it is a way for Deaf to spell words that the last half doesn't matter and/or is hard to spell. For example: spinal meningitis = SPINAL MENI>>>-blah-blah-blah.

[@drag38race]

When I sign Too Bad, I just sign T.B. sideways if i remember correctly

[@sign-language]

Golfnut, Yes, the horizontal TB version of "too bad" (fingertips typically ending pointed at the other person) is an EXCELLENT version of "too bad." It conveys a lot of snark -- as in "too bad, sorry -- not sorry." Thanks for mentioning it since I didn't have it in my "sign bank" I've added it to my "videos to upload" list. kzbin.info/door/Zy9xs6Tn9vWqN_5l0EEIZAvideos

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