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Fingerspelling (advanced receptive practice using various common words).
American Sign Language (ASL) Fingerspelling Practice Series.
Instructor: Dr. Bill Vicars
Student: Lynneah
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Fingerspelling (advanced receptive practice using various common words)
ASL American Sign Language Fingerspelling Practice Series
By Dr. Bill of Lifeprint(dot)com
ASL University
youtu.be/hIzx9gJx0AI
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Receptive Fingerspelling Practice
air
aspirin
attic
back
bag
bank
bills
cabin
cents
ceramic
clay
desk
eek
fog
fry
gas
glue
grand
guide
ice
iowa
nail
off
oil
or
park
plastic
poach
pool
porch
prom
rash
roof
rug
sink
stereo
stiff
teller
thai
van
toy
xray
yard
zoo
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Fingerspelling (advanced receptive practice using various common words).
American Sign Language (ASL) Fingerspelling Practice Series.
Instructor: Dr. Bill Vicars
Student: Lynneah
Want to order a USB drive with four semesters worth of ASL video instruction? (ASL 1, ASL 2, ASL 3, and ASL 4) for $79.95?
See "SuperUSB" in the ASLUniversity bookstore at:
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For free ASL lessons check out:
lifeprint.com/asl101/lessons/lessons.htm
For a great “100 First ASL Signs” resource, see:
lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/concepts.htm
To learn basic fingerspelling see youtu.be/va1aAXpVr2w
Instructor Bio, see:
lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/instructor.htm
Take care and love to you all.
- Dr. Bill
:)
==========================
Fingerspelling (advanced receptive practice using various common words)
ASL American Sign Language Fingerspelling Practice Series
By Dr. Bill of Lifeprint(dot)com
ASL University
youtu.be/hIzx9gJx0AI
=============================
Receptive Fingerspelling Practice
air
aspirin
attic
back
bag
bank
bills
cabin
cents
ceramic
clay
desk
eek
fog
fry
gas
glue
grand
guide
ice
iowa
nail
off
oil
or
park
plastic
poach
pool
porch
prom
rash
roof
rug
sink
stereo
stiff
teller
thai
van
toy
xray
yard
zoo




![Directional Verbs in ASL (Dr. Bill Vicars and & Cäsar Jacobson) (VES 39) (indicating verbs) grammar
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Vocabulary Expansion Series Lesson 39.
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Directional Verbs in ASL
ASL American Sign Language Vocabulary Expansion Series (39)
Dr. Bill Vicars with Cäsar Jacobson
Intended audience: Students who have who have completed Level 2 or higher of the ASL University curriculum at Lifeprint.com
https://youtu.be/iG_f0eH6JP8
Today we are going to learn about: Indicating Verbs and Reversal of orientation for negation
SHOW demonstrate example represent display vs SHOW-me
SHOW- that person
SHOW is an indicating verb
An indicating verb is sometimes called a directional sign.
Directional indicating verbs use starting and ending location and movement path to indicate the subject and object.
you- SHOW -me subject = you object = me
me-SHOW-them (third person referent) subject = me object = them, that person, him, her
SHOW has the ability to indicate subject and object via movement
SHOW is an indicating verb.
SHOW is directional
if has several versions …
IF version 1 SUPPOSE
IF version 2 fs-IF fingerspelled or lexicalized
IF version 3 COURT judgment justice
Show me 3 signs for IF
“but” has a few versions …
“but” version 1 DIFFERENT
“but” version 2 fingerspelled fs-BUT
“but” version 3 gesture “wait a moment” with raised eyebrows
Show me 3 signs for “but”
quote title subject theme vs QUOTE -from cite
“citation” is sometimes fingerspelled fs-CITATION
CITE version 1 quote from quoted …and I quote… citation
cite version 2 give-TICKET citation ticketed
A citation form of a sign is the dictionary version …
citation form: version 1 DICTIONARY open-BOOK IX-there
citation form version 2 FROZEN
citation form version 3 FANCY official proper dignified
citation form version 4 FULL complete
citation form version 5 fs-CF (requires high context)
Show me some ways to sign the concept of CITATION FORM
DICTIONARY open-BOOK IX-there FROZEN official proper FULL fs-CF
Show me 3 signs for “if”
Show me 3 signs for “but”
What is a citation form of a sign?
COMPARE
Compare: FANCY vs official proper dignified
Compare: official proper dignified vs an official coach chief BOSS
Compare: FULL in general FULL-of-food
Compare: FULL in general vs ENOUGH
Compare: ENOUGH vs PLENTY
coach chief BOSS
ENOUGH
PLENTY
RELAX at ease rest
casual down to earth chillin’ CALM taking it easy
The sign FOR has a citation form
FOR has a relaxed casual sign.
FOR has a question version what-FOR? (lowered eyebrows)
rhetorical version: what-FOR-[rhet]? (raised eyebrows) Use when you will answer your own question.
what-FOR? is sometimes typed as FOR-FOR?
Show me a few versions of “FOR”
FOR citation FOR casual what-FOR? what-FOR-[rhet]
RELAX rest
casual
SKIP absent not attend miss a meeting not do
Sample sentence: SKIP THAT QUESTION
ASK citation form a formal request
ASK citation form is probably based on the sign PRAY
ASK-to (casual) version 1 version 2
ASK-to + (context) = me-ASK-you
ASK-to is a directional sign.
ASK-me
ASK-that-person
What kind of verb is ASK-to?
ASK-to is an indicating verb since the direction indicates the subject and object.
you-ASK-me you are the subject I am the object
you-ASK-me vs that-person-ASK-me That person is the subject.
SKIP
SKIP is not directional SKIP is a PLAIN VERB
PLAIN
VERB
Plain verbs do not inform us who is the subject or object.
ASK-to (casual) vs a question question mark
fire off a bunch of questions
WANT
WANT has a reversal of orientation version = don’t want
We can type that as lowercase not + WANT = not-WANT or don’t-WANT
Compare: NOT WANT vs not-WANT
LIKE vs not-LIKE
KNOW vs dont-KNOW
GOOD vs BAD
TELL
TELL = TELL-you
TELL-me
TELL-that-person = TELL-that-group (singular) = TELL-him = TELL-her
TELL-them singular vs TELL-them plural
TELL everyone = ANNOUNCE declare claim
ANSWER respond order reply to response
ANSWER can be done with one hand or both hands.
ANSWER vs TELL
I’m going to fire off a bunch of questions to you. If you don’t want to answer a question tell me to skip it.
Give me an example: reversal of orientation for negation
dont-KNOW dont-LIKE dont-WANT
Give me an example of an indicating verb using directionality
you-ASK-me you-SHOW-me TELL-me
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Going to School (ASL practice) (Lesson 13)
ASL gloss:
I DEAF-SCHOOL UTAH, GRADUATE 2023. NOW COLLEGE. I LIKE COLLEGE, BUT HARD. HIGH-SCHOOL EASY. NOW MUST READ MANY ARTICLE, TAKE-NOTES, WRITE RESEARCH PAPERS. CLASS ONLINE two-way-WEBCAM ZOOM. INTERPRETER? MUST LOOK-at-(intense)! WHY-[rhetorical]? MY MONITOR SMALL. I MUST WATCH VIDEOS. SOMETIMES CAN’T. NONE CAPTIONS! I WISH GO GALLAUDET.
An English interpretation:
I went to the school for the Deaf in Utah. I graduated in 2023. Currently I’m in college. I like college but it is hard. High school was easy. Now I have to read lots of articles, take notes, and write research papers. Class is online via webcam and Zoom. I have to watch intently to see the interpreter because my monitor is small. I have to watch videos but sometimes I can’t because they aren’t captioned! I wish I went to Gallaudet University!
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Instructor bio, see:
http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/instructor.htm
Take care and love to you all.
- Dr. Bill
:)
Going to School (ASL practice) (Lesson 13) (ASL University) (Lifeprint.com) (Dr. Bill)
ASL University at Lifeprint.com
William G. Vicars, EdD
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