Learn ASL: Basic Furniture Signs in American Sign Language for Beginners

[@JamieM470]

Love this channel. Signs repeated slowly from all angles. I don't have to keep stopping & backing up to understand :)

[@RonHoward-l7v]

I wish I would have learned how to sign a long time ago. I am thankful that videos like this are easily available. I've been a preschool teacher for 25 years. While I have learned basic words for my non-speaking students, or students with speech problems, I just this year got 2 deaf students. One is two years old and he has no language at all. In the past few weeks he has learned several signs from our deaf/hard of hearing teacher, his case manager, and from me. As his teacher, I spend more time with him than anyone else, so he and I are learning together. Thank you for what you do.

[@emmery3571]

I’m trying to learn some ASL over quarantine and you have helped so much, thank you!

[@ASLMeredith]

I'm so glad you're learning! ☺️

[@whidoineedthis]

Hows it goin Emmery?

[@jeiioclapped1899]

You still going?

[@brandonsmith1198]

Thank you for the daily listen I enjoyed every minute of it

[@wesleyjake1509]

This was very helpful. I am helping a friend hunt for apartments so this will come in handy! Thanks Meredith!

[@ASLMeredith]

Thank you, Jake! I'm so glad you found this useful :)

[@charlesirwin5126]

Thank you love learning sign language from you it's important to learn sign language

[@ASLMeredith]

Yes agree, so important!

[@MrBlaze27ify]

More church signs/religious signs please. Sometimes, not often, someone comes into my church that is deaf and needs and an interpreter. Thanks, Meredith! All of your videos help me!

[@MusicInMotion_67]

Oh Lord it will take more than just learning a few religious signs to interpret a church service. ASL isn't about words so much as concepts and often many words can be signed in different ways depending on the concept or meaning behind it. Especially in religious signs. I would really encourage you to take a signing class in you are wanting to do any interpreting at all. A simple and small change in a sign can change the entire meaning and many signs are signed very similar. Especially for beginners. Or hire an interpreter.

[@RCrandellWW]

This is great! I like how you have a chance to review at the end and it was silent. Good to check if you know them!! Thank you!

[@scottreacher4620]

Another fantastic video. Again, I love how you showed the sides too. That really helped me out with "Dresser". I owe you so much! I also love the reviews at the end.

[@ASLMeredith]

Thanks!! Yes, I'm trying to add more video-end reviews. Thanks for the feedback!

[@ash_alk_fan1]

I got so interested in ASL thanks to you! In fact, I bought Nyle DiMarco's book Deaf Utopia, and after reading that, I signed up for ASL courses at Gallaudet University. :) So exciting ~ It's a whole new world of communication for me. Thank you for all that you do!

[@ASLMeredith]

Thank you for your comment! I'm thrilled to have contributed to your interest in ASL :) and how wonderful that Nyle's book inspired you to sign up for Gally ASL classes!! Incredible! I'm so excited for you to dive in :)

[@jacki9966]

I've been wanting to learn ASL. Your videos are awesome. Thank You!

[@LibbyChorney]

thank you for this! it's exactly what I was looking for! I sell furniture and we have plenty of hard of hearing customers and with masks preventing lip reading right now, this offers me another way to communicate with those who can sign!

[@sagixxarius]

Yas I got it after one watch I loved this video!

[@ASLMeredith]

Nice job!

[@tansontruong9489]

I really enjoy studying on your videos. Big thank!

[@ASLMeredith]

Glad you like them! Thanks so much!

[@counselorevieaskme1148]

Thank you so much

[@coachdom888]

Thank you very much. It so helpful to me 😉

[@ASLMeredith]

Glad it helped!

[@miguelsaldivar6963]

Hi! I really enjoy your videos!..I really am glad there are asl teachers like you who are willing to take the time to teach on youtube!..also if possible I would like to learn medical signs

[@cameronholm5412]

Thank you

[@leonoragodoy4325]

thank you so much .. I learned a lot though i know already how to sign however using SEE and now ASL is different... Im learning.. stay safe

[@ASLMeredith]

Hi Leonora, yes SEE and ASL are different! Great that you're learning.

[@carriethomas95]

Thank you so much I have always wanted to sign language subbed

[@ivieprofen6115]

Thank you! I’m of hearing but would like to be accessible to the hearing impaired and I know very little as of now. This is a good place to try to start!

[@ASLMeredith]

Thanks, Ivie! So great that you're interested in better communicating with Deaf and hard-of-hearing people. (As a tip - those are generally the preferred terms by those who use sign language.)

[@MrDtaylor099]

This video was soo helpful! I love your work & how you repeat your signs. I'm trying to teach my family ASL, and I got most of the signs I'm teaching them from you. I think you should make a video with "almost," "maybe" and random things like that. Thanks again(ha ha, I know that sign!) for the great videos! I hope you can keep up the good(I know that one too!) work & make more videos! :-))

[@ASLMeredith]

Hi Daniel, thank you for your kind feedback! I appreciate the encouraging words and am so glad you and find these videos useful! So great to be learning with your family. Love it! (If you like my style, I invite you to subscribe to my free email newsletter with additional lessons -- aslmeredith.com/newsletter for more info!) AND thanks, too, for the awesome suggestion! ALMOST, MAYBE, any other random things? Those "random" words are the hardest to think up :) so if any others come up, feel free to submit them to my suggestion form here: goo.gl/kkgo8c

[@vikkiedwards235]

Thank you! I needed this video very much.

[@thunderstrike-rw4hn]

Excellent video very clear very interesting thankyou for your time in doing these videos, ,,, very educational

[@ASLMeredith]

Thank you for the encouraging words! Glad you find these useful.

[@thunderstrike-rw4hn]

Meredith ASL ypur most welcome I do like the way you do it and it nakes alot sense the way you do it I appreciate your hard work and time on each videos you do thanks :-)

[@JayEmmVee02]

More Lexicalized fingerspelling please

[@katieoconnor123]

Hi! I'm not sure if you've already done this but if not I'd like to learn fun things like food and animals.

[@barbarasodek7396]

I love this since I work in the apartment industry. Can you do some signs for moving? And getting an apartment? Thank you!

[@ASLMeredith]

Great suggestion! Please think about some important phrases you'd most like to learn and submit them via this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf_I65-vAThnoJ2S9skZfSjzHOQG-Cxsd6VuBN6LK_AgQzolQ/viewform

[@josephcasados2580]

Thank you so much, you are very helpful! I need more conversation because i am haveing a hard time understanding what they are saying... i mean i get lost in tjeor sign really quick ive been getting better but have trouble with spelling

[@ASLMeredith]

Hi Joseph, thanks for the kind feedback! Glad you find these videos useful, and keep practicing -- you're right that more conversational practice will help with your receptive skills! I also recommend watching native signers as much as possible. Check out dpan.tv for example to see fluent ASL!

[@abdmadrid8716]

Thank you 💗 keep up ✌

[@Sgt-Gravy]

Who does your video editing? Also showing Graphics may be helpful for those of us who are dyslexic & dont relate to written words as well. hope this is helpful. thank you.

[@ASLMeredith]

Thank you for this feedback, Michael! Couldn't agree more -- and appreciate that different students learn in different ways. I actually much prefer to use images in my teaching. (That's ALL I do in the live classroom), but my video editing is limited :) I'm currently saving up to get a green screen so I can add graphics. To support the cause, you can shop through aslmeredith.com/resources Amazon link (and a portion of any earnings also goes toward a different Deaf organization each year) -- hoping to get a green screen and a few other film-improving tools by the summer :) so stay tuned !

[@nataliefrazier8652]

Hi meredith! Do you have a lesson on zoo animals? And another on the pet store? Thanks!

[@Sgt-Gravy]

ceiling fans, air conditioning, & Things found in the REF... Illnesses; Cold, Flu, headache, toothache, cramps, tight muscles, watery eyes, stuffed nose, itchy eyes, sinuses,...

[@ASLMeredith]

Thanks for the great suggestions!

[@orestesdelgadojr7935]

Glad to hear more signs you teaching alike you like future job teaching other school which you would like better other school for the deaf / hearing if these interesting signs language more on walls and video. I know that. Hope you have plan your graduate of college. Good luck certificate experiences signs and job real quick . How are you old now! If you shy. That okay I am 60 yrs old and I goal retire 62 by 2020. Enough to enough length work too much 42 yrs. When I prefer to move other state in las Vegas because nephew want to move to job work there better than it I don't know. Have a nice warm friend! High five 👋✋

[@rajamkannaniyengar1370]

Hey. I hv been learning ASL since a month thro KZbin lessons from you and Dr.Bill Vicars. Actually I hv finished upto lesson #10 from Dr.Vicar couple of topics from you. I am 65-year-old indian living in India. I want to know if there is any exams conducted by institutions, if so the procedure and details of the same. Also how to practice and interact with deaf community. Does anyone in Chennai, india. Tnks

[@rajamkannaniyengar1370]

I am not hard of hearing and healthy. Out of curiosity just I started to learn.

[@brinkley390]

Hey! So I work at a daycare, and there's a new kid that is deaf. I'm determined to speak his language! I found your channel and I've no joke been watching it non-stop. Is there any way you can make a video on how to sign stuff like "bathroom" or "cleanup"? you know general stuff you would teach/ask a kid? He's 9 and he's crazy fast a signing. I don't know how to say "slow down" I feel so helpless! If you can't I completely understand!

[@ASLMeredith]

Thanks for your comment, Brinkley! Glad you've been finding this channel useful :) and kudos for working to learn to communicate with your new student. This other video has "PLEASE" and "SLOW", so hope that helps: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJm0p5-nYtKNqqM and thanks for the request! Besides "bathroom" and "clean up" (which I just taught on Instagram! @aslmeredith ) , what other words would be most useful?

[@brinkley390]

Thank you so much! This means so much! and yes, it has been very helpful. Unfortunately I don't have instagram. ummm only other thing i need help with is words for food. Like, "goldfish" or "gummies" you know kid snacks maybe there's not a sign but I just am not fast enough to spell it all out

[@ASLMeredith]

Anyone can see my Instagram posts at instagram.com/aslmeredith - you don't need the app :) so you can see the post with CLEAN for now. I'll see about the others . Thanks!

[@MooshroomsRCool]

can you do more signs about furniture, and appliances please? I am doing a project and am currently trying to describe rooms in my home in asl and need more info.

[@ASLMeredith]

Thanks for the great suggestion! You can submit any requests via the form at goo.gl/E6G69n -- I can't promise how quickly I can turn it around, but I do reference those requests first when making new videos. Thanks!

[@DoubleD712]

Can you do sign language in the music department,

[@DoubleD712]

Can you teach that please? Thank you

[@ASLMeredith]

Hi John, thanks for the question! Sure - but what does that entail? If you have phrases you'd liek to learn, please add them here, thanks! --> aslmeredith.com/request

[@morganfolz7446]

So I always learn the chair was sit. So is it still sit or how would you say sit in the chair

[@ASLMeredith]

CHAIR and SIT are a noun-verb pair in ASL, which follow the pattern of: CHAIR (noun) is a double movement, while SIT (verb) is a singular motion. (so "sit" is one large downward movement while "chair" repeats the movement smaller.) Hope that helps! For the English phrase "sit in the chair", in ASL that might be signed a few ways depending on context. Most likely, you could sign SIT and point to the chair in question. Or you could topicalize "chair" and sign CHAIR (there/point), SIT.

[@MusicInMotion_67]

You should point out not to get the first sign for REFRIGERATOR mixed up with READ. Very similar for someone first learning.

[@TheSexy1049]

Thanks for sharing 🙏

[@amyaanicole6002]

How would you sign when talking about multiple walls ?

[@ASLMeredith]

You'd repeat the sign! If just saying "walls" you can repeat the sign in place or move it away from you slightly. If referring to multiple walls in a room, you'd use the space to 'place' the wall where it belongs.

[@angiemaher5103]

Hey Meredith! So, the sign for "ready" and "refrigerator" are the same? ASL can't be a little confusing lol

[@ASLMeredith]

Hi Angie, good question! They're similar - The sign REFRIGERATOR points a little bit more inward (palms somewhat face one another) whereas READY is signed more with palms outward, and the sign READY may also have one of several movements - often a bit bigger than the small movement of REFRIGERATOR. Also, as always, context will always help you know the difference. It must be one in a million that the word "ready" would be used in the same context as "fridge" :)

[@Jess-fz8pt]

Difference between fridge and ready? Is it just context?

[@ASLMeredith]

Hi Jess, good question! They're similar - The sign REFRIGERATOR points a little bit more inward (palms somewhat face one another) whereas READY is signed more with palms outward, and the sign READY may also have one of several movements - often a bit bigger than the small movement of REFRIGERATOR. Also, as always, context will always help you know the difference. It must be one in a million that the word "ready" would be used in the same context as "fridge" ;)

[@Jess-fz8pt]

@@ASLMeredith thank you!!!

[@krystlenicole9268]

I work at a gym and am learning sign language for "bed" but tanning bed. Can the same "bed" sign be used for a tanning bed?

[@ASLMeredith]

Hi Krystle, great question ! You could sign TAN and then use a classifier to show the *type* of bed. This video demo's one such way that shows how the door closes over the U-handshape bed: www.handspeak.com/word/search/index.php?id=4918

[@krystlenicole9268]

@@ASLMeredith Thank you so much!!

[@toryhaines1518]

How do you knew my name in sign language

[@jlostudio9397]

Is there a difference between chair and sit?

[@ASLMeredith]

Yes, SIT is one movement, while CHAIR is a double movement. Many noun-verb pairs follow this pattern!

[@jlostudio9397]

Ok, thanks!

[@MrMIND-hl8nk]

00:32 furniture 00:53 chair 1:17 couch 1:36 table 2:09 desk (fingerspell) 2:33 bed 3:09 dresser 3:21 mirror 3:35 closet do the rest urself. I know most of them already

[@darinlawyer5432]

👍👍😊

[@bonnie-sueharper144]

Hi! I have subscribed but I am not getting any info via my email!

[@ASLMeredith]

Hi Bonnie, can you please contact me at aslmeredith.com/contact so I can help make sure you're signed up correctly? Thank!

[@ChrisS-hp4zc]

Sports signs

[@ASLMeredith]

thanks for the request! Check out my video with sports signs here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pp_deo2IbdyHjJo

[@FIREPOSER]

We have to finger spell stove?

[@ASLMeredith]

Yes, it's typically fingerspelled. You might use classifiers to *describe* it (eg: "COOK BOX 4-CIRCLES") but in general, it's fingerspelled.

[@FIREPOSER]

@@ASLMeredith Thank you!!

[@Zaphira666]

i would some help being able to better serve my hearing impaired costomers... I work in a coffee shop... Any thing would be helpful

[@ASLMeredith]

Hi Siobhan! Thanks for the great suggestion. Have you seen my "Sign with your customers" video? Find it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWHVe6iZfbyZitk and if you have any additional *specific* words that would be particularly helpful in a coffee shop, please let me know. Thanks!

[@Zaphira666]

Meredith ASL thanks a bunch i will ☺

[@elvirat.acosta4125]

☺👍👍👍

[@drivingsahilya3778]

rached ASL

[@drivingsahilya3778]

HeIIo

[@charleshennings5134]

light+help=lamp

[@ASLMeredith]

Close! It's actually not the sign "help". Firstly, note that the non-dominant (left) hand is palm down for "Lamp" instead of palm-up like in "help". You're correct that the right handshape is similar though -- the open "A" handshape (like that seen in HELP) is a classifier (a handshape that represents the shape/position of something) that represents a lamp-sized object on a table (the left hand is the table). Hope that makes sense!