Fingerspelling: Quiz- Twenty Names *

[@jinx4life316]

1. Julia 2. Christopher 3. Alexis 4.Christine 5. Oliver 6. Alexander 7. Sabrina 8. Tiffany 9. Daniel 10. Matthew 11. Lacey 12. Harrison 13. Scarlett 14. Indiana 15. Roy 16. Jennifer 17. Stella 18. Madelyn 19. Sophia 20. Ryan

[@monday2578]

Doing god’s work

[@CornieAyala]

Ufff thanks 🙏🏼

[@pandalandalopalis6515]

the sounding out letters thing is something i never thought of!! i've always had a ridiculously hard time with fingerspelling because i cant remember all the letters in my head to put them together at the end. but if i sound it out, then the end of the name makes more sense! wow!! thanks so much for this trick!

[@SignWithCourtney]

I wish I’d learned this when I was taught fingerspelling. It would have been so much easier! So glad you’ve learned it and that you’re learning ASL!

[@gwensoergel4206]

I agree, it helps to sound out the letters as they are being signed. I wanted to become an interpreter, but that didn't work out for me. However, I like to keep up with signing. I don't think I can ever have enough practice with fingerspelling. One thing that one of my ASL classmates taught me was to get a blank piece of paper (printer paper or looseleaf) to write on while you're taking a test. When you have your final answer(s) transfer them to the test sheet. This way I could keep my eyes on my professor as he/she gave the test and I could write my answers on my scrap paper (printer paper/looseleaf).

[@ChristinaSageser]

I was surprised that a video like this didn't have captions for the spoken English! Just something to think about! Thank you for the video :)

[@debbiehall2006]

Great practice. Thanks. The first time is harder to see in front of your face. The black background when when you spell it the second time makes it clearer.

[@SignWithCourtney]

Check out my newer practice videos on shorts as well as the fingerspelling secrets series and let me know what you think!

[@amelialaird9421]

AFTER CLICKING ON THIS VIDEO I PRACTICED FINGERSPELLING MY OWN NAME. AND THEN SHE COMES ON AND THE FIRST NAME SHE SPELLS IS MINE. AMELIA. LOVE IT HERE

[@denisekerr5452]

I missed two and I am still at the slower speed. But am slowly catching the first, some middle and last letters at the faster level. Practicing, practicing, practicing! Lol, thank you. These videos are extremely helpful.

[@lilfizzle85]

Would be more helpful if the answers were posted. I was disappointed to finish the quiz, not to know if I was correct or not.

[@SignWithCourtney]

I know! I’m sure you can tell though because you know the category and if you came up with something and it fits you’re likely correct. Myself and other college professors use them for our classes though so I don’t provide the answers. So glad you are practicing! That’s so awesome of you to be learning on your own like this!

[@dontmindme.imjustafraidofe9327]

I guessed them all correctly by just sounding this out! Thanks for making this!

[@SignWithCourtney]

Awesome! That’s exactly how you do it. Keep up the great work!

[@tonysyolie]

PERFECT! Just what i need, to simply practice my finger spelling and receptive . THANKS

[@SignWithCourtney]

Glad it was helpful and so glad you're learning ASL! Have you seen the shorts I've been posting with the daily practices?

[@gayatriprakash6724]

I am brand new to ASL. Could you give me some tips on how to read finger spelled words at this "regular" rate of signing ? I can read words accurately when they are spelled very slowly, but struggle with the "regular" rate of signing. Please help !

[@amybecker9707]

Keep practicing! :) This was one year ago, I see! How are you doing with it now?

[@avery-brown]

Thanks for the video. When you sign at normal speed, your hand is more in front of your face and is harder to see because it blends in with the color of your skin. When you fingerspell slowly, you move your hand slightly to the right to be against the black background, which is much easier to see. Is this intentional? Just an observation. Looking forward to watching more!

[@SignWithCourtney]

It was not intentional but was something I noticed that I did after I went back. It doesn’t make much difference in day to day signing but definitely does when you’re signing on video and even more for teaching. Then again, it is real life and often the conditions are not ideal so even unintentional extra challenge like this can be beneficial! So glad you’re here and watching and learning ASL!

[@jyang0431]

I agree. Sideways doesnt help either

[@hgilles9564]

Very helpful! I hope you keep making more

[@scottscoville1118]

the number right before the first letter, without a break, kills me every time, for getting anything out of the first fast one. But I am just starting out.

[@SignWithCourtney]

That one will get you but I'm so glad you're practicing! Are you watching the daily ones on shorts? I'm hoping they'll provide some good practice (and there are no numbers). :)

[@majakaja6663]

I wish there’d been a medium speed cause the slow was way too slow anf the fast I couldn’t keep up with

[@phillipcooper7099]

Hello

[@SignWithCourtney]

That's a good idea. I'm trying to get a fluent and a slower but not overly slow speed for the second one now. Have you seen my recent shorts for themed receptive fingerspelling practice?

[@jyang0431]

This was fun. Please do more and "longer" words if you may. I was having a hard time with #11 because I swore you fingerspelled Labey but it was Lacey. The C handshape was too opened so it looked like the letter "b." But overall, this was very fun. Thanks

[@SignWithCourtney]

I love that you are challenge yourself! Great idea. I’ll add that to my list! Ugh yes the C and B do look like that when you’re going fast. I struggle with that one when reading fast fingerspelling but it makes sense I do the same thing. 🤪

[@kioku119]

lol.. I got "slarlett" for one of them and was very confused ;p (I see bellow what it was.. glad I was somehow closer than I expected). I think I was good with the rest but only at the slow pace. At least one I had to rewatch I think.

[@SignWithCourtney]

It’s excellent practice! Keep up the good work!

[@rakhipal2520]

Is curintopuer the second one lol. I’m bad.

[@aphr0d]

It’s the name of the boy in Winnie the Pooh 😂

[@aphr0d]

So her h looks a lot like u, I thought h was sideways but I suppose there are different ways of holding it up! In her case, two fingers backwards is h (and perhaps direction doesn’t matter). Two fingers forwards is always u though. Hope that helped!

[@SignWithCourtney]

I didn’t realize when I filmed it that I held my Hs up so high! Definitely a personal variation of mine but they should be more horizontal with palm facing in compared to the palm facing out, vertical, fingers together. Context and sounding out help, but sometimes still difficult if the person has an odd variation or spells it wrong.

[@SignWithCourtney]

😂😂😂🤪

[@brent1a]

I’m glad I’m not the only one stuck on number two. She spells CURISTOPU as far as I can tell and I’ve been watching it in 0.25x speed.

[@nathanvandevoorde7851]

I am learning, but please tell me if this is normal: I can understand every name perfectly fine, but the speed you do these names are are very hard imo... For example at 2:34 when you spell "Sabrina" I could only take that out of it when you did it slow, and then after looking at you spelling it so fast I can't make sabrina out of it as its too fast even knowing the name is "Sabrina"... Is it always being spelled this quick or do people in generally spell slower?

[@SignWithCourtney]

Good question. That is conversational speed for fluent signers. Search my channel for fingerspelling and you’ll find a lot of videos I’ve made to help teach you as well as practice ones. It took me forever to get fingerspelling so it’s totally normal.

[@TheNewRiflemanBob]

Note to self: Up to 4:00