ASL | I Love Food | American Sign Language

1. Course Introduction: I love food. You guessed it. This course is going to be all about food. We're going to learn lots of vocabulary, dealing with food and drink. That's right. After that, we're going to learn verbs. Then we're going to learn personal and possessive pronouns. Those will be our three puzzle pieces. Lots of vocabulary, verbs and pronouns. Mmm. After we learn all those vocabulary words, we need to know how to sign, how to use them. So we're going to learn sentences. All right, we're going to put the parts together, make sentences. With those same parts, we can make questions. Right. Huh. Opportunity? Yes. Once we have sentences, we have questions, statements, questions, we can make dialogues. Alright. So we're going to put your skills to use. You learn the vocabulary, put it into action. Alright? As we're going, that's right. We're going to have test. I have my glasses. We have tests. I need to know that you can sign what we've been learning and also that you can understand. Uh huh, uh huh, ah. Alright, let's do it. Let's get started. 2. Explore Group 1 Vocab: Oh, boy, it's group one words. Ahh. All right. In this section, we're going to learn how to sign breakfast, lunch, dinner, bacon, beans, butter, candy, carrot, cheese, and coconut. All right. Let's jump in. Let's do it. 3. Learn - Sign for BREAKFAST: Let's talk about breakfast. Okay, this is a two part sign. All right. Literally, we're going to be signing eat morning. All right, so two part sign. The first part is eat. Just make this hand shape right here. Now, take the tips of the fingers and just put it against your mouth. Like you're putting something in your mouth and you're eating. Eat. Mm hm. So morning we already have eat. Now we need morning. All right? Both hands. All right. Make this hand shape, fingers tight together, thumbs along the side, okay? I'm right handed, with my non dominant hand, my left hand, I'm going to go like this. Put it face down, palm down. All right? With my right hand because I'm right handed, I'm going to put it under and come up. All right? Morning. Like the sun rising. Uh huh. Morning. Okay? Morning. From the side, morning, from the other side, morning. Mm hmm. Okay, let's put it together. Eat morning. All right? Becomes breakfast. Mm hmm. From the side? Breakfast. Breakfast. Okay? Let's do it three times from the rest position. I say, this is the rest position because if you ever watch sign language interpreters, when they're not signing, their hands are here. It's at the ready position, the rest position because Papa. They can start signing when they need to. Alright, let's sign breakfast three times, starting from the rest position. Here we go. Breakfast. Breakfast. Mm hmm. All right. This was a sign for breakfast. To part sign. Remember, Eat. Morning. Becomes breakfast. Mm hmm. 4. Learn - Sign for LUNCH: Let's talk about lunch. Okay, it's two part sign. It's going to be literally eat noon. All right. First part, eat, hand shaped like this, use the tips and just touch your mouth, or at least get close. Alright? Because it's eat. All right, Noon looks like this. Alright, hand shapes, fingers together like this. All right? I'm right handed. My non dominant hand, I'm going to place it down here. My dominant hand straight up and down, put it right here. So this part is touching the bottom part of my forearm, right? So noon. From the side, noon. Other side. Noon. Okay, so if we put it together, eat noon, becomes lunch. Looks like this. From the sign? Other sign. Okay, let's sign lunch three times from the rest position. Here we go. Sign with me. Here we go. Lunch. Lunch. Lunch. Okay. So remember, lunch is a two part sign. It's eat plus noon. Put them together. You have lunch? 5. Learn - Sign for DINNER: Let's talk about dinner. Okay, two part sign. It's going to be eat plus night. Eat plus night. So for eat, just make this hand shape, use the tips and go like this. All right? Touch your lips or get close to your mouth. Eat. All right? Night looks like this. Right, both hands. With your non dominant hand, so I'm right handed. Left e would be my non dominant hand. I'm going to make this shape. Now I'm going to make it down here. Put it down here, palm facing down. With my right hand, that's my dominant hand. I'm going to make this hand shape, right? So it's tight together, but just kind of bend it down a little bit. All right? Now I'm going to go like this. Hmm. Right. So about midway down my forearm is going to touch this part of my hand. All right? That is night, right? From the side, Knight. Other side, night. Think this is the sun, maybe this is the horizon and it's going down. Okay, so remember dinner, the two part sign, we have to go eat, night. Together, that makes dinner. From the side. Dinner. Other side. Dinner. Let's do it three times from the rest position. Sign with me. Here we go. Dinner. Dinner. Dinner. Okay, sign for dinner. Remember two part sign, literally, eat, night. Uh huh. Together, it is dinner. 6. Learn - Sign for BACON: Let's talk about bacon. Mm hm. Alright, here's a sign. Okay, hand shapes are going to be the same for both hands. We're going to make the letters. All right. Now point them at each other and have the tips just touching a little bit. All right? Now we're going to pull apart. But while we're pulling apart, we're going to wag the fingers. You know how bacon is crispy and wavy. So we're going to go like this, pull apart, and make it wavy. Bacon. Mm hmm. Bacon. All right. How many times do you do the waves? Are you going to go like this way out here? Probably not. Maybe just two times, two or three. All right. Bacon. Mm hmm. From the side. Other side. All right. From the front, once again, Bacon. All right? Let's do it three times from the rest position. Sign with me. Bacon. Bacon. Bacon. Mm mm. Okay? Remember, both hands. U shape, like the letter U V, right? Fingers together. Put the tips together, lightly touching, pull them apart and wave. Alright? Bacon. Bacon. Alright. This was assigned for. Bacon. 7. Learn - Sign for BEANS: Let's talk about beans. Okay, here's a sign for beans. All right, both hands on this one. So I'm right handed, right? So I'm going to make this shape with my right hand, kind of like you're measuring something, or it's this thick. All right? Start with that one. With your non dominant hand, stick up your index finger, now point it towards your right hand. Alright? So it's down here like this. Now with the right hand, tilt it forward, and we're going to pinch off the tip of our index finger twice. Alright, so pinch and pull. One, two. Alright? From the top, it would look like this. One, two. Alright? Beans. From the side? From the other side. Right? From the front, Beans. Mm mm. Okay, let's do it three times from the rest position. Sign with me. Here we go. Beans. Beans. Beans. All right. Remember, two hands on this one. Your dominant hand. We're going to make this shape, tilt it forward. Your other hand, non dominant hand, put up your index finger, point it towards your right hand. Take your right hand, pinch off twice. All right? One, two. That's the sign for beans. 8. Learn - Sign for BUTTER: Let's talk about butter. Mm mm. All right? Both hands on this sign. I'm right handed. So my non dominant hand, I'm going to make this hand shape and make a platform, okay? All right? Not perfectly flat, kind of like over here, tilted a little bit. With my right hand, my dominant hand, I'm going to make this handshape, right? Start like this. Put those two fingers down, fingers together. Uh huh. Kind of like a gun, right? That hand shape. Now, take the tips, and we're going to rub twice on the bottom part of our platform, okay? That's the sign for butter from the side. From the other sign. From the front. Alright, two quick kind of swabs, I guess. Alright, let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Butter. Butter. Butter. All right? This was the sign for butter. Non dominant hand. Make a platform. Dominant hand hand shaped like this. Use the tips and dab twice. Swipe twice. Alright. Butter. This was the sign for. Butter. 9. Learn - Sign for CANDY: Okay, let's talk about Handy. All right. Use your dominant hand. All right? What is our dominant hand? It's the hand that you feel most comfortable signing with, I'm right handed. I do most things with my right hand, so I sign with my right hand. Okay. I'm going to put up my index finger. I'm going to use the tip, and I'm going to put the tip on my cheek, if you had a dimple, it would be right there and then twist twice. Like you're drilling or pushing a little hole in your cheek. All right? From the side, candy. Other side. Candy, right? From the front, candy. All right? Let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Candy. Candy. Handy. Okay, so there are variations of this sign, right? I have seen some people sign candy like this. Where they make this hand shape, use the tips, and then they rub on their chin twice. Candy. For consistency in this course, we're going to sign candy like this. We have two versions, candy and candy. In this course, we'll be doing candy. All right. Once again, index finger, take the tip, drilling a little hole in your cheek. Candy. Just like candy. It drills hole in holes in your teeth. Candy. This was the sign for candy. 10. Learn - Sign for CARROT: Let's talk about carrot. Okay, this is kind of a fun sign. We're just going to use one hand on this one, your dominant hand, make a fist. It's also the letter S. Okay. Pretend there's an imaginary carrot sticking out from your hand. So put it over here close to your mouth. First, you're going to take a bite. Now you're going to keep chewing as you push it into your mouth. All right? So that is carrot like a rabbit or bugs bunny or something, right? You're just chewing and pushing it into your mouth. All right, from the sign? Other sign. Right? From the front once again. That is carrot. Let's do it three times from the rest position. Sign with me. Here we go. Carrot. Carrot. Carrot. Okay? This was a sign for carrot. 11. Learn - Sign for CHEESE: Let's talk about cheese. Okay, so hand shapes, we're going to use both hands. The hand shapes are kind of loose, right? We're not spreading the fingers apart, and they're not really tight together, just kind of loos, right? With your non dominant hand, I'm right handed. So my non dominant hand, my left hand, I'm going to put it down here, palm up. Alright, just sitting down there. Alright, dominant hand. We're going to take the palm, and we're going to put it on our hand and twist twice. Alright, so you're pressing down twist twice. That is cheese. All right? From the sign. Cheese. Other sign. Cheese. Okay, from the front, once again, cheese. All right? Let's do it three times from the rest position. Let's sign cheese. Cheese. Cheese. Cheese. Okay, so my top hand is twisting, my bottom hand is just kind of sitting there and making a platform. That's it. Cheese. Okay. So remember, two hands. Fingers kind of loose. One down here, other one on top, take your palm and twist twice. Cheese. This was the sign for Cheese. 12. Learn - Sign for COCONUT: Let's talk about the signed for. Coconut. Okay, so just kind of like you're grabbing a coconut or a ball or something, right? Your fingers, your hands are like this. We're not touching. We're just kind of we have some space in there. Alright? There's a coconut. You grab it. Now we're going to listen and shake it a couple of times. Alright? Coconut. From the side, Coconut. Other side. Coconut. All right? If you're lefty, you can put it over on the other side. That's fine. Coconut. All right? So I'm righty, so I'll put it over here. Coconut. Okay, let's do it three times from the rest position. Let's sign coconut. Coconut. Coconut. Coconut. All right. So remember, fingers kind of like this. You're grabbing a ball. You're grabbing a coconut. We're not touching a little bit of space in between. Now take that coconut, the imaginary one, put it close to your ear and shake. Coconut, Coconut. Alright. This was a sign for coconut. 13. Practice - Group 1 Test Format: Alright, let's do some practice before the test. What? A test? Yes, test. Okay, we even have a timer. All right, This test is going to be in two parts. The first part, see that little hand down there, you're going to sign. Mm hmm. The second part, I'm going to sign, and we'll get to that in a moment. So the first part, I'm going to show you something that we've already learned. You already know it, we've already went over it, okay? So I'm going to show it to you, and I'm going to start the timer. The timer will be for 4 seconds. So whatever I show you the vocabulary word, sign it, okay? Try to beat the timer. If you need more time to think about it and remember, you can pause the video. That's no problem. Okay, so let's take a look at what it looks like. I'm going to show you something and you sign it. Here we go. Okay. Bacon. Alright, so I showed it to you, started the timer, and you try to sign it before the time's up. Alright? So it was Bacon. Mm hmm. Okay, that will be the first part. The second part, there won't be a timer in the picture, a little guy down there with glasses. Okay? So that means you watch me. You're watching me as I'm signing. So I'm signing, and you're like, Uh huh. What's he signing? Aha. You tried to figure out what I'm signing. All right? Let's do a quick test so you can see how it works. Here we go. Alright, so what did I sign? Well, I signed carat. Okay, so that's how it works. First part you're going to sign. You'll see that little hand. Second part I'm going to sign. Alright? Since it's a testing section, testing part, I'll be wearing my glasses, and I won't be saying anything, okay? So I'll be quiet the whole time. We'll go through the test. We'll communicate. Mm. Let's do it. 16. Explore Group 2 Words: All right, it's time for group two words. We're going to learn the signs for coffee, corn, eggs, food, fruit, hamburger, ice cream, juice, milkshake, and onion. Alright, let's get to it. 17. Learn - Sign for COFFEE: Let's talk about the sign for coffee. Okay, we're going to use both hands and make fists. We can also say we're making a letter S S from the alphabet, like STU, Alright S. All right, so we have fists. With my dominant hand, my right hand, I'm going to put my fist like this. With my non dominant hand, I'm going to put my other one underneath. Now, put the top one, touching the bottom one, and do a couple circles like a grinder. Maybe like a coffee grinder. All right? Coffee, right? From the side? Coffee. Other sign, coffee, right, from the front, once again, coffee. Let's do it three times from the rest position. Sign with me. Here we go. Coffee. Coffee. Coffee. All right, so we're going to use two fists, one on the bottom, one on the top. They're touching, right? And make a couple circles. Coffee. If you're left y would be opposite, right? Coffee, right? So I'm right y, coffee. All right? This was the sign for coffee. 18. Learn - Sign for CORN: Here is the sign for corn. Okay, with your dominant hand, so I'm right handed. This one, I'm going to use my index finger. All right? I'm going to twist it and put it flat so that my palm is facing forward towards you. All right? I'm going to take this side, put it close to my mouth, not touching, but a little bit off to the side. All right? Now I'm going to twist, roll forward twice, one, two, Alright, from the side, corn from the other side. Corn Alright, from the front, once again, corn. All right? Let's do it three times from the rest position. Sign with me. Here we go. Corn. Corn. Corn. Mm hmm. Okay, I have seen variations of this sign, right? So we're signing it like this, corn. I have also seen it done with two hands. Corn. I've also seen it done with this hand shape corn. All right? All three share similarity that they all kind of roll. They twist, right? And corn. All right. So we have three different versions. In this course to maintain consistency, we're going to do the one handed version like this, corn. Alright. So remember with your dominant hand, index finger, put it here to the side of your mouth, and now twist twice. Corn. All right. This was the sign for corn. 19. Learn - Sign for EGGS: Let's talk about eggs. Okay, we're going to use both hands on this side, and the hand shapes are the same. They're the letter U. All right? How do we make a U? Well, go like this. Get rid of these two fingers, put our fingers together, put your thumb inside. That is a U. Okay, with your non dominant hand, so I'm right handed, non dominant hand, go to take that U and put it here. All right? Okay? So it's kind of pointing off to the side there, and it's flat. Okay? The other one, I'm going to start like this. Now I'm going to go down and break the egg. All right, go like this. Eggs. So it kind of taps and then it just flows down. It just one smooth motion. Eggs. Alright? From the side, from the other side. Right? From the front once again. All right? Let's do eggs three times from the rest position. Sign with me. Here we go. Eggs. Eggs. Eggs, right? If you notice the end hand position, the wes are pointing forward, right? The tips or the fingers are pointing forward, right? So we have one here, another one up here, kind of tilting away. Alright? It comes down and it just keeps going. All right. Eggs. All right? This was the sign for eggs. Mm. 20. Learn - Sign for FOOD: Here is a sign for food. Okay, the hand shape with your dominant hand, I'm right handed, is going to be like this. Just put the tips of the fingers down together with the thumb. All right? Take the front. Now tap twice on your mouth, on your lips. Okay? Food. From the side. Other side. Alright, let's do food from the front three times from the rest position. Here we go. Food. Food. Food. Okay, you might be thinking. This looks like the sign for eat. Well, it's very close, okay? There's just one main difference. When you do eat, it's one motion. Eat. All right? Mmm. Just come into your mouth and stay there for a moment. All right. With food, we're going to tap twice. Alright? So here's eat. Here is food. Okay, good, good. So the hand shapes like this, use the tips. Tap right here twice. Okay. This was assigned for food. 21. Learn - Sign for FRUIT: Here is the sign for fruit. Okay, we're going to use the letter F from the alphabet. All right? How do we make an F? Just put your thumb index finger together. Now, leave these fingers spread out, right? Okay? Some people sign an F like this. Some people sign an F like this. This is how I learned it. This is how I sign it. And when we do fruit, leave them spread out, okay? All right. So take the tips right here, put it on your cheek and twist forward twice, right? Fruit. Fruit. Okay, from the side, fruit. Other side. Fruit. All right, from the front, fruit. Alright. Make sure you're in this cheek area, not like way up here or somewhere else, right? Fruit. Okay? Let's do it three times from the rest position. Sign with me. Here we go. Fruit. Fruit. Fruit. All right, hand shape once again is a letter F. F, index finger thumb together, take the tips, put it here, twist twice. All right, fruit. This was the sign for fruit. 22. Learn - Sign for HAMBURGER: Here is the sign for hamburger. Okay, we're going to use both hands, and they both have the same hand shape, right? So your fingers are together, thumb at the side. Now curve them forward a little bit. Alright? With your non dominant hand, put that one underneath, palm facing up, dominant hand, the opposite, palm facing down. Okay? Now we're going to go one, two. Alright, Hamburger. Alright? If you've ever used ground beef and formed hamburgers, you already know the sign. Alright? You just take some ground beef, right? Hamburger, I'm making a hamburger. Alright, from the side, Hamburger, other side, hamburger Okay. Let's do this sign three times from the rest position. Sign with me. Here we go. Hamburger, Hamburger, Hamburger. Okay, so hand shapes like this, one down here, other one here. Now, one, two, because you're going to form the hamburger. This was the sign for hamburger. 23. Learn - Sign for ICE CREAM: Here is a sign for ice cream. All right, use your dominant hand. I'm y. Going to make a fist, alright? Or the letter S. You could say that. It's like you're holding a cone, an ice cream cone. All right? Put it close to your mouth and kind of move like this twice. At the same time, stick your tongue out like you're licking the ice cream cone. All right, from the side, from the other side. Okay? I've also seen it where people don't stick out their tongue. They just go, In this course, so this is how I learned it. We're going to stick out our tongue. Okay, let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream. Okay, if you notice I'm not actually licking my fist because that would be undesirable. Okay? Just stick your tongue out a little bit, but you don't actually have to touch your face with your hand or your tongue, okay? So just like this. All right. Ice cream. Alright. Once again, fist. You're holding the cone. This is like the top part with ice cream on top, and you're just going to lick it twice. Alright? This was the sign for ice cream. 24. Learn - Sign for JUICE: Here is the sign for juice. Okay, we're going to use the letter J. Here is a J. All right? Just stick out your pinky, other three fingers down, thumb in. Now trace in the air a J motion. That's J. All right? We're going to do it right in front of our mouth. We're not going to touch, but we're going to get close. So J. All right, juice from the side. Juice. Other sign. Juice. Okay, let's do it three times from the rest position. Sine with me. Here we go. Juice. Juice. Juice. Okay. Another version of this sign I've seen is where they put the J down here and they just go juice. All right? Juice. Instead of putting it here, they put it over here, juice. I've even seen some people do it over here, J, juice. To be consistent throughout this course, we're going to assign juice like this, juice. All right? Juice straight on in front of the mouth, juice. Okay? So we're going to use the letter J. Now, put that motion right here, juice. This was the sign for juice. 25. Learn - Sign for MILKSHAKE: Let's talk about milkshake. All right. We're going to do a two part sign in the same area with the same hand. All right? Your dominant hand. So I'm right handed. First, we're going to sign milk, then shake. Here's a sign for milk. All right. So you're just kind of opening and closing your fist twice. Milk. Pretend you're maybe squeezing something like you're going to milk a cow. Alright? Milk. All right? Two times milk. Now we're going to do shake, shake. All right. Milk. Shake. When you shake, leave your fist closed and just shake twice. Alright? So milk, shake. From the side, milk, shake, other side. Milk, shake. All right. From the front, once again, milk, shake. All right? Let's do it three times from the rest position. Sign with me. Here we go. Milk, shake, milk, shake. Milk, shake. Okay. When you're squeezing your hand, you don't have to go way open and close. Just kind of leave it like this, kind of a loose fist, and then squeeze twice. All right. Milk, shake. When you're doing shake, it's a closed fist right there. All right. Once again, milk, shake. Mm hmm. This was the sign for milk shake. 26. Learn - Sign for ONION: Here is a sign for onion. Okay, the hand shape with your dominant hand, I'm right handed, is the letter X in the alphabet like X Y Z, X. How do we make an X? Well, put these last three fingers down, put your thumb in, now make a hook like your captain hook. Alright. Now take to X, and we're going to use the top part. Put it around your cheekbone, right to close to your eye, right? Now twist, make contact, and twist twice. Alright? Don't move the location. Stay where it is. Twist twice. All right? From the side, Onion. Other side. Onion. Okay, from the front, Onion. Let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Onion. Onion. Onion. Okay, so you might be thinking, This kind of looks like the sign for Apple, and you're right. But there's a very important distinction, the placement of the X on the face. Okay? So we've learned it. Onion is up here. Remember, onions kind of make you cry, so, put it close to your eye. Apple is down here. Alright? So lower on the face, lower part of the cheek. Apple, right? So this apple is the same motion. X two twists, but it's lower on the face. Okay, Apple. All right, Onion once again up close to the eye. Onion. A? Maybe your cheekbone to the side of your eye, Onion. Allright. So remember, apple is down here. Onion is up here. Easy way to remember onions when you're cutting them, they sometimes make you cry. So put it up here. Onion. Alright. So remember, letter X, use the top part over here, side of your eye, right on your cheekbone there and go to twist. Onion. Alright? This was assigned for onion. 29. Practice - Groups 1-2 Test Format: Okay. Practice before the test. Guess what? We've already learned 20 words, 20 signs. Way to go. Okay, it's time for a two part test. The timer, that's right. A test. All right. The first part, see the hand. I'm going to show you something. You sign. Try to beat the timer. Let's do a quick practice one. I'm going to show it to you. Start the timer. If you need to pause, it's okay, try to beat the timer. Here we go. Okay, the sign was butter. Mm hmm. All right, so that will be the first part of the test. The second part of the test, there won't be a timer. But you'll have me and the little guy down there with the glasses. So the second part is recognition, reception. Can you understand what I'm signing? All right? So I will sign. You're going to watch Uh huh uh huh. What's he doing? Uh huh. Ah. Alright. So try to understand what I'm signing. Alright, let's do a little practice. Here we go. What am I signing? Okay, what did I do? I did corn. All right. So first part will be, you sign, second part, I sign, and then you take a look. Let me put on my glasses. Let's jump in. Let's do all of the words from groups one and two. Here we go. 32. Explore Group 3 Words: All right. It's group three words. Okay, we're going to learn the signs for orange, pancakes, pasta, hair, pepper, pineapple, pizza, popcorn, pork, and pretzel. Okay, let's jump in. 33. Learn - Sign for ORANGE: Here is the sign for orange. Okay, use your dominant hand, so I'm right handed. I'm going to use this one. Okay. Now, what we're going to do is we're going to make kind of a loose fist, right? The fist isn't closed. It's kind of loose. Now take that hand shape and put it in front of your mouth and squeeze twice. All right? Orange orange, from the side, orange, other side, orange. Okay. Let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Si with me. Here we go. Orange orange. Orange. Okay, you might notice that when I do the two squeezes, after that, my fist is closed and it stays shut. So it's like close, close. There it is. Orange. All right, use your dominant hand and just squeeze twice in front of your mouth. This was the sign for orange. 34. Learn - Sign for PANCAKES: Here is the sign for pancakes. Nice, straightforward sign. Mm hmm. All right, the hand shapes are going to be the same for both hands like this. Alright. Fingers not loose, fingers tight, thumbs alongside. Okay, With your non dominant hand, I'm right handed, so my non dominant hand is my left hand, going to make a plate. A platform, a stove. Ah, a skillet. Alright. With this one with my right hand, my dominant hand, I'm going to scoop up the pancake and flip it over. Alright? Pancakes. From the side, pancakes. Other side. Pancakes from the front. Pancakes. Alright, let's do this sign three times from the rest position. Here we go. Sign with me. Pancakes. Pancakes. Pancakes. Mm hmm. Remember, same hand shape. One is palm up. Uh huh. The other one's also palm up, but we're going to use it like a scoop, scoop it up, flip it over. Alright? This was the sign for pancakes. 35. Learn - Sign for PASTA: Here is the sign for pasta. Okay, we're going to use the same hand shape for both hands. It's in the shape of the letter I. Okay? How do we make the letter I? Well, start with your hand like this. Put your middle three fingers down, put your thumb in front. You have I. All right? That's an I. Once again, I, okay? Same shape for both hands. I. Alright, we're going to start in the middle. The tips of the pinkies are going to touch, go around and around. Mm hmm. Alright. Kind of like you're mixing up a salad, right? So touch around. Alright? Touch around. Pasta. From the side, Pasta, from the other side, Pasta. From the front. Pasta. Okay, let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Pasta. Pasta. Pasta. Okay. Remember, same hand shape, both hands in the shape of the letter I, touch the pinkies. Now go up and around. All right? Or we could describe it together around and up, something like that. All right? This was the sign for pasta. 36. Learn - Sign for PEAR: Here is the sign for pair. Okay, we're going to use both hands, different hand shapes. All right? I'm right handed. So with my non dominant hand, I'm going to make this shape, right? The fingers coming down to touch the thumb, right now, tilted forward so the knuckles are facing forward, okay? With your dominant hand, for me, my right hand, I'm going to come like this, kind of envelop, over wrap it, and squeeze out. All right. So that's pair from the side, pair, other side, pair from the front. Pair. Okay, let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Sign with me. Pair. Hair. Hair. Mm hmm. Okay, non dominant hand, hand shaped like this, thumbs touching, all the tips together like that, knuckles forward. Take your other one. Kind of like you're gonna eat it, I guess, and suck away. Pull away. Hair, right? This is the sign for pair. 37. Learn - Sign for PEPPER: Here is the sign for pepper. Okay, we're going to use the F hand shape, right? The letter F EF G, F. How do we make an F? Leave the fingers up over here, bring the index finger down and touching the thumb. Okay? Leave a gap there. All right. Now, we're just going to tilt it over and shake twice, right? From the side, pepper, other side, pepper, from the front, once again, pepper. All right? Let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Pepper. Pepper Pepper. All right? So imagine you have some food or something in you're putting some pepper on top. All right? A variation of this sign. So people sign it using a P and they go, Pepper. All right? Pepper. So for this course to maintain consistency, we're going to sign it with the F like this, pepper. Pepper. All right. So remember, use the F sign, flip it over and put some pepper on your food. Two times, Shake Pepper Pepper. All right? This was the sign for pepper. 38. Learn - Sign for PINEAPPLE: Here is the sign for pineapple. Okay, we're going to use the letter F, like E FG, F. Okay? Now, how do we make an F? Well, we just put the index finger and the thumb together. Leave these three fingers up and spread out. Okay? Now, make sure you can see through because when we sign pineapple, we're going to take this, put it over our eye, and twist twice. Alright, we have pineapple from the side, pineapple, other side, pineapple. All right? I'm not actually touching my face. I'm just getting close pineapple. Let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Pineapple. Pineapple. Pineapple. All right. So pineapple is a sign is a word that has many different signs in ASL. So let's see if I can remember a few. All right? I remember pineapple. I've seen pineapple. I've seen pineapple, and I've seen with the P, they go pineapple. Mm hmm. So many ways. To be consistent in this course, we're going to stick with the F version where you take the F, put it over your I and go like this. Okay, pineapple. All right. So once again, use the F. Use a little key hole, put it over your eye and twist twice. Pineapple. Alright? This was the sign for pineapple. 39. Learn - Sign for PIZZA: Here is a sign for pizza. Okay, it's a combination of letters kind of mutated. All right. Let's see if we can break it apart. All right. First, to make the letter Z in American sign language, you just trace with your index finger, you trace a Z. All right? In our version of pizza that we're going to sign, we're going to trace a Z, but we're going to do it with two fingers. All right. So the tips of your fingers, trace a Z, Z, and then go into an A, right? So A. All right? Z double Z A. All right? From the side, Z A, pizza. Other side. Pizza. Alright, let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Pizza. Pizza. Pizza. Mm hmm. Alright, pizza is one of those words that has many variations when you're signing. Okay? Let's see if I can remember a few. Straightforward one is they spell it out P, I, and then do with a Z A, A right? Pi, double Z A. Another one I've seen is where they go like this. All right? Like, you're grabbing the slice of pizza and you're kind of shoving it or putting it in your mouth, one, two, like that. Alright? Another one I've seen is they use a P. Like this is a letter P. And then with the index finger, they draw a Z. All right. Some people have also they just do the Z, like the double Z, and that's it. That's the pizza. All right? Sometimes that can be confused with snake. Alright? So in this course, to be consistent, there are many ways to do it. We're going to go like this. The double Z A, Alright? Pizza. All right? Pizza. All right. So remember, we're going to double fingers here, use the tips. Draw a Z now ended in A. Alright, pizza. Alright, this was assigned for pizza. 40. Learn - Sign for POPCORN: Here is a sign for popcorn. That's it. We're going to make a flicking motion like this with our index fingers. We're going to go one, two, just like popcorn popping. Pop, pop. Popcorn, right from the sign popcorn, other sign, popcorn, right from the front, once again, popcorn. Let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Sign with me. Popcorn. Popcorn. Popcorn. All right, so the flicking motion is like that. Uh huh. We're only using our index finger. Do one over here, then one over here. Alright? Popcorn. This was the sign for popcorn. 41. Learn - Sign for PORK: Here is a sign for pork. All right, it's a two part sign. It's pig with meat. Okay, so pig meat, which is pork. All right. So to make pig, we're going to make this hand shape, fingers together, right, put this part underneath the chin and go up twice. One, two. All right, pig. All right, from the side, pig. Other side, pig. Okay, so that's the first part, pig. Now we need meat. All right. With your dominant hand, you're going to use some pinchers, thumb, and index finger. With your non dominant hand, for me, my left hand, put your hand right here. It's kind of limp. It's a piece of meat. Now grab the meat and shake it. All right. Meat. Meat. And you're grabbing right behind your knuckle right about there. Mat. Alr? So altogether, it's pig meat. In other words, pork from the side. Pork. Other sign. Pork. From the front once again. Pork. All right. Let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Pork. Pork. Pork. All right, two parts sign. Remember, pig and meat. Together, makes pork. All right, so this was a sign for pork. 42. Learn - Sign for PRETZEL: Here is the sign for Pretzel. Okay, we're going to use the letter R with both hands. All right, how do we make an R? Well, just cross your middle and index finger, right? Like you're hoping something or you're crossing your fingers behind your back like that, R, right? Both hands. And we're going to draw the shape of a pretzel. Mmm. All right. Like that. All right, regular speed, pretzel. Pretzel. All right, from the side, pretzel. Other side. Pretzel. All right, from the front, once again, Pretzel. All right? Let's do it together three times from the rest position. Here we go. Pretzel. Pretzel. Pretzel. Okay, so when you draw it, start together, go around, and come back together, and end right there, a little bit lower from where you started. So you start about here, go to about there. Pretzel. Okay, remember, using the letters R for both of them and draw it. Pretzel. Right? This was designed for pretzel. 45. Explore Group 4 Words: Good golly me, it's group four words. Okay, we're going to learn the signs for salad, salt, sausage, smoothie, soda, soup, sour cream, strawberry, tea, and water. What are we waiting for? Let's start. 46. Learn - Sign for SALAD: Here is the sign for salad. Okay, we're going to use same hand shapes for both hands, right? It's kind of like a claw or even better. It's like a scoop. They're like scoops, right? Make sure your fingers stay apart. They're not together, right? Like this. Now we're just going to imagine there's an imaginary salad in front of us, and all the ingredients are in their own location, and we want to mix them up. Alright, so we just go one, two. Mm hmm. Salad. From the side, salad. Other side. Salad. All right? From the front, once again, salad. All right, sign with me three times from the rest position. Here we go. Salad, salad, salad. Alright, hand shapes, once again, kind of like claws, maybe, maybe like you're gonna catch a ball. Alright? Just like that. Now, put them down like they're like scoops and toss the salad. Mix up the salad. One, two, right? Salad. Alright? This was the sign for salad. 47. Learn - Sign for SALT: Here is the sign for salt. Okay, the hand shapes are going to be the same for both hands. All right? We're going to use letter V, like V for victory, man, or the number two. All right, V. Here we go. All right, so your non dominant hand, I'm right handed, non dominant hand, I'm going to put my first V out like this, okay? Palm facing down. Make sure the fingers are spread apart because it's a V, it's not a U. All right. There's the V. With my dominant hand, my right hand, I'm going to put this V on top. It's face down, right? Now I'm going to flutter the V that's on top. Now, the flutter is just kind of like this, right? So the bottom is not fluttering, but the top is, and it's touching, right? It's fluttering, right? Salt, from the side, salt, other side, salt from the front, salt. Okay, sign with me three times, starting from the rest position. Here we go. Salt. Salt. Salt. Okay, so I have seen a few different versions of this sign. All right? I've seen Vs. I've seen salt, where there's no flutter, it's just salt. It taps twice. I've also seen where there's a double flutter, where both parts. The bottom V and the top V flutter. All right, Salt. All right? For this course to maintain consistency, we're going to sign it as salt. All right? So the bottom one stays stationary, it doesn't move, the top one flutters. Okay? So for this course, once again, we're going to use this sign for salt. Okay. All right. So remember, Vs. All right, not use Vs. One down, face down. The other one on top, still face down, and flutter. We have SLT. Okay, this was the sign for Salt. 48. Learn - Sign for SAUSAGE: Here is a sign for sausage. Okay, hand shapes are the same. We're just going to mirror each other, okay? We're going to start like this, squeeze, open, go out, squeeze. All right. So sausage. All right. So from the side, the hand shapes would be like this. You're open, and then you're squeezing, right? Squeezing. So once again, start on the inside, squeeze. Out, squeeze. Sausage. Mm hmm. Try to stay level with the hands, right? Sausage. From the side, sausage. Other side. Sausage. Alright, let's do it three times from the rest position. Sign with me. Here we go. Sausage. Sausage. Sausage. Okay, so just remember, open, close. Open, close. One, two. So that's a sign for sausage. Mm hmm. 49. Learn - Sign for SMOOTHIE: Here is the sign for smoothie. Okay, same hand shapes for both hands. Alright, go like this. Fingers spread apart. Now take your middle fingers and bend them down the middle fingers. When I bend my middle fingers, my other fingers move too, but it happens, but just bend your middle finger down like this, ok? Now, take your dominant hand. I'm right handed, put it on top, non dominant hand, put it below, pretend there's an imaginary line that's connecting the middle fingers. They're not touching, but they're lined up. Okay, so we start kind of low, and then we go, Oh. Right? Kind of shake them a little bit, maybe swirl them a little bit we're thinking of a blender, right? Zoop, right? So here's the sign for smoothie. From the side. Other side. Alright, let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Smoothie. Smoothie. Smoothie. Okay, I have seen a variation of this sign, where it's like this, making kind of a cup, index finger and then swirling it around. And while they're doing that with the facial expression, it's like, oh, I guess, representing the sound or the rotation of the blender. For consistency purposes, throughout this course, we're going to be signing smoothie, like this. Alright. Oom. Smoothie. Okay, so remember, hand shapes, middle fingers coming down, line them up, right? And then go up, kind of shake them a little bit, vibrate them up as you're moving up. Mmm. All right. This was a sign for smoothie. 50. Learn - Sign for SODA: Here is a sign for soda. Mm hmm. Both hands on this sign. Okay, I'm right handed. With my non dominant hand, I'm going to make a cup or a can, right? It's just a letter O. Put it down here. All right. With my dominant hand, my right hand going to make this hand shape, now bend down the middle finger, right? Take the middle finger and dip it into the cup, pull it back out, make the hand flat, and slap it down. All right, so slowly, here's what it looks like altogether. Alright. Soda, from the side. Soda. Other side. Soda. All right, from the front. Soda. Let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Soda. Soda. Soda. All right. So depending on which part of the US you're from where you're at, some people might say pop. They might say soda, soft drink, soda pop, something like that. Either way, the signs the same. All right. Soda. Pop. All right. Soda. Okay? So remember, both hands, non dominant hand, make a cup, a glass, can, whatever, dominant hand, bend the middle finger down, dip it in, pull it out, and slap it down. All right. Soda. Okay? This was a sign for soda. 51. Learn - Sign for SOUP: Here is the sign for soup. Okay, both hands on this sign, I'm right handed. My non dominant hand, I'm going to make kind of a bowl, a plate, a dish, something like that down there. Alright? Fingers together. There it is. With my dominant hand, I'm going to make the letter U, right? So if V is spread apart, U is together. Now, I'm going to kind of let it curve a little bit because it's my spoon, right? And I'm going to one to have some soup. My facial expression is going to be kind of like I'm sipping the soup, I'm sucking it up like that. Alright? So the full sign is soup. Mm hmm, from the side. Soup, other side. Soup. You can see my head's bending over a little bit. Just pretend you're eating Imaginary, but it's the sign. Let's do soup three times from the rest position. Here we go. Soup. Soup. Soup. Okay? So remember, you have the sign. You also have the facial expression. Kind of like that. Like you're sucking up the soup. Okay, so non dominant hand. Make a platform, a bowl, dominant hand, let it curve a little bit. That's your spoon. One, two, one, two, soup. Okay. This was the sign for soup. 52. Learn - Sign for SOUR CREAM: Let's talk about sour cream. All right, two parts sine, two different sins together to make sour cream. We have sour, and we have cream. For sour, just use your index finger, put the tip on your chin and twist, Sour from the side, Sour other side, Sour. That's sour. Now we need cream. When we make the sign for cream, we're going to use both hands. I'm right handed, non dominant hand, make this hand shape. Fingers together, put it down as a platform. Now with my right hand, I'm going to make this shape, right? It's curved like a C, but the thumb is going to be just hanging out there. Now we're going to put it down on top of our platform and rotate towards us. We're scraping off the top layer of the cream. If you've ever watched the process of milk, cheese, cream, all of that stuff, the cream rises to the top and then they scrape it off, they have cream. The full sign is sour. Cream. All right? From the side, sour cream. Other side, sour cream. Mm hmm. Sour cream. Let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Sour cream. Sour cream. Sour cream. All right. So remember, two parts sine we have sour, and then we have cream. Put it together. We have sour cream. Mm hmm. 53. Learn - Sign for STRAWBERRY: Let's talk about strawberry. Okay, this sign uses both hands, right? I'm right handed with my non dominant hand, I'm going to use my index finger. Put it this way. So it's pointing over there, alright? Palms facing down, knuckles away. All right. Now I'm going to take my dominant hand, my right hand, make this shape. Now go onto the tip of the index finger and twist a couple times. Alright? Alright, so it is strawberry. Other side, strawberry from the front, strawberry. Alright? Okay. Let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Strawberry, Strawberry, Strawberry. All right. Remember, both hands, non dominant hand, index finger, flat out there, dominant hand on the tip, strawberry. Okay? This was the sign for strawberry. 54. Learn - Sign for TEA: Here is a sign for T. Okay, both hands on this side. I'm right handed. With my non dominant hand, I'm going to make a little cup. All right? It's just a letter O. All right? Go put it down there. Now with my right hand, I'm going to make the letter F. All right? How do we make an F? Open hand, index finger thumb come together. These just hang out over here. All right? Take the tips of the thumb and the index finger, stick it kind of on the rim, a little bit inside your cup, and then just go around in a circle a couple of times. All right? I guess, technically, it's clockwise. If you went counterclockwise, I don't think it would be a big deal, but clockwise. All right. So T. From the side, T, other sign, T. All right, from the front, once again, T. All right. Let's do it three times from the rest position. Sign with me. Here we go. T. T. T. All right? Remember, two hands on this sign, non dominant hand, make a little cup, saucer, whatever you got down there. Dominant hand, make the letter F. All right. Take the tips, stick it there, a little bit in, make a couple circles. We have T. All right. This was the sign for T. 55. Learn - Sign for WATER: Let's talk about water. All right, one hand on this sign. Use your dominant hand. I'm right handed. So let's make a W. How do we make a W? Well, we have open hand right here. Take your thumb, put it on top of your pinky finger and hold it in place. So these three fingers are just hanging out straight up, okay? That is a W. Now, when we're going to sign water, we're going to touch the inside part of our index finger to our lips, two times. Okay, like this. All right. Bottom lip, kind of like your chin right there. All right, two times water from the side. Water. Other sign. Water. Okay. Let's do it three times from the rest position. Let's sign water. Water. Water. Water. Mm hmm. Okay, one hand, dominant hand, make the W. Take the W alongside and just tap twice. All right. This was the sign for water. 58. Practice - Groups 3 4 Test Format: All right, practice before the test. Okay, we're going to be focusing on groups three and four words. All right, 20 words. Way to go. All right. The first part will be signing. See the hand? All right, so you sign whatever I put up there, try to beat the timer. All right? So let's take a look. Let's do a quick practice one. Here we go. All right, so the sign for pork. Okay, that will be the first part where you sign what you see. The second part, no timer, a little guy down there with the glasses. So I will be signing, right? You try to figure out what the heck am I signing? Only signs from groups three and four words. Alright, let's do it. Let's do a test one. Here we go. Alright, so what did I sign? Well, I signed Pepper. Right. Good, good. Alright, so let's do it. First part, you sign. Second part, I sign. Alright. Let me put on my glasses. Let's jump in. Groups three and four words. Mm. Let's do it. 61. Practice - ALL Food Test Format: Okay, let's do some practice before the test. The big test. That's right. We're going to be covering groups one, two, three, and four words. All right. In total, that's 40 words. Way to go. We've been learning and learning and learning. Okay, so the format this time is a little bit different. Instead of one word with the picture, I'm going to show you two words, no pictures. All right. So I'll show you two words. The timer will be for 7 seconds. You sign the two words. Okay? So let's do a little quick practice test, and here it goes. Show it to you. Start the timer, you sign. Here we go. H. All right, so we have pepper and we have butter. Alright? So when it comes turn for me to sign, my turn to sign, I will always sign the top one first, and then the second one, okay? So top one and then the bottom one. Alright? So when I'm signing, I'm going to go pepper. I'll pause, and then I do butter. If you just want to go pepper and butter without a pause, that's up to you. I will pause in the middle. Okay. So the first part is with the timer, alright? And the second part, we're not going to have a timer. I'm sure you know what I'm going to be saying. All right. This time, just me, you take a look at what am I signing. This time I will sign two words, and you figure out what I'm signing. I'll sign the first word, pause, and then I'll sign the second word. I'll do each word once, only one time. If you need me to repeat, just rewind the video. Okay, so let's do a quick practice test. Here we go. What am I signing? Okay, so what two words did I sign? Well, I signed onion and I sign salt. Mm hmm. Okay. Like I said before, I will sign the first one up there, and then the second one down here. Okay? So we have onion and we have salt. Mm hmm. What an opportunity. Okay, so once again, first section, first part you sign. Second part I sign. Get the glasses. Here they are. Alright, let's have the test. The big test. Mm hmm. Let's do it. 64. Explore - ASL Verbs: All right, it's time to learn some verbs. We're going to talk about, eat, drink, hate, love, and want. Mm hm. Let's do it. 65. Learn - Sign for EAT: Here is the sign for eat. Okay, we're going to take an O and we're going to squish it down. So this is the hand position, right? Just use your dominant hand. I'm right handed, so I'm going to use my right hand, okay? So the O, squish it down. This is the hand shape, okay? All the tips together. Now just touch your mouth. All right? Eat. All right? There's no bounce, just one motion. Eat from the side, from the other side. All right. Let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Eat. Eat. Eat. Okay, an important thing here, right, we have eat, which is one motion, but you're thinking, it looks like food, right? Well, the difference between eat and food is that food has double tap, right? So food will tap your mouth twice, okay? Food is like this. Eat is like this. Pretty close, but I think you'll remember food and eat. All right. So this was assigned for eat. The hand shape is like this. All right? One motion like this. All right? Eat. 66. Learn - Sign for DRINK: Here is the sign for drink. Okay, we're going to use the C hand shape like A, B, C, and the alphabet. How do you make a C? Fingers together, curve, and it looks like a C. All right, tilt the C forward. Put the thumb on your chin and tilt up. All right? Drink. If you want to tilt your head back a little bit, that's fine. Drink. Alright? From the side, drink. Other side. Drink. All right. Let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Drink. Drink. Drink. See hand shape, tilted forward, thumb on your chin, tilt up. Drink. This was the sign for drink. 67. Learn - Sign for HATE: Here is a sign for hate. Okay, we're going to be using both hands and we're going to be making a flicking motion with the middle finger and the thumb. Pretend like you're flicking a bug or you're flicking someone. I don't know. But that's the motion for both hands, put your hands about here, get in position and flick. All right? Flick. You're going to flick it away, right? At the same time, add a facial expression that shows extreme dislike. Hate. You wouldn't be like, People would be, What the heck? That's not hate. Uh huh. Okay, so put the facial expression with the flicking motion to get hate from the side. Other side, hate. All right? Let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Hate. Okay, once again, both hands. Flicking motion. Alright, flicking motion pointed forward. You're directing the hate, the negative energy outward. Hate. Okay? This was the sign for hate. 68. Learn - Sign for LOVE: Let's talk about love. Okay, the hands shape is the same for both hands. It's going to be the letter S, alright? Like a fist, STU in the alphabet, S, right? How do we make an S? Make a fist, thumb in front. Okay, rotate so the palms are facing in towards you, right? And just give yourself a hug. All right, so cross and hug, right? I'm right handed, so my right hand is on the inside, left hand on the outside and hug. If you're lefty, just do the opposite. Left hand on the inside and hug. All right, so we have love. From the side, love. Other side. Love. All right. Can you feel it? Let's sign it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Sign with me. Love. Love. Love. Alright. Remember, S, hand shape, tilt them in, twist them in, palms facing you. Cross and hug. We have the sign for love. 69. Learn - Sign for WANT: Here is the sign for W. Okay, we're going to use both hands. Start with your hand shapes like this, fingers apart. All right. Put your hands down here, palms facing up. Now, pull it in. All right? The motion is kind of like this, but it's going to be down here, right? So palms face up and pull in because you want something. All right, from the side, W, other side, W. All right? From the front, once again, W. Let's do it three times from the rest position. Here we go. Want, Want. Want. Okay? Remember, don't just stay out here and curl up your fingers. You need to pull something in Want. All right? Put the energy, you're pulling it in. Okay? Both hands, open at the beginning, start out here. Now kind of clawed in W. All right? This was a sign for W. 71. Learn - Pronouns (060, 24) %%: Okay, it's time to talk about pronouns. What fun. Okay. When we talk about personal pronouns, we're talking about I, he she, we, they, plural. That little PL down there means plural, as in more than one person, at least two people. So you might be talking to a group, couple of people, but it's like you all, okay? All right? If we're talking about possessive pronouns, my your his her or there your plural. All right, so right. Let's talk about hand shapes. Now, here's something good. Wonderful. When we're talking about personal pronouns, the hand shape is going to be the same for all of them. You move around, but the hand shape will be the same, and it is the number one, right? Or you can just say the index finger, the pointer finger. I'm sure you've used it before, right? So this is what we're going to use for personal pronouns. Hm. Good, good. Right? Possessive pronouns, we're going to use the same handshape for all of them. Mm hmm. And it's going to be the open B. Now, this is the open B. You might be thinking, open B, closed B, what the heck, right? So open B is like this. Some people sign a B like this. So people sign a letter B like this. I sign a letter B like this, but I've seen it like this and like this. So either way, for possessive pronouns, we're going to use the open B position. It's just putting your hand up here, tightening it up, no spaces, and just putting your thumb alongside. All right? From the side, it looks like that, kind of like a karate chop hand, open B. Alright? So possessive pronouns, open B, right? And the wonderful thing when you're doing personal pronouns and we're going to use the pointer finger, the number one, it works for all of them. We're going to move it around, but the same hand shape for all of them. Same thing with possessive pronouns. We're going to use the open B. The left y, use your left hand. If you're right y, use your right hand. Open B, I'm y. Everything on this list is going to be signed using the open B hand shape. Whoa, exciting stuff. Now, let's jump in. Alright. Okay. Okay. Let's take a look at I and M. Mmm. So let's start over here with the personal pronouns. Ah, we automatically know the hand shape. It's the number one, the pointer finger, the index finger. Okay, so I, you just go like this. All right? So I also works for me, I and me. That's the pronouns, just like this. All right? Just point at yourself. Take the index finger and go like this, right? I, me, I, right. Okay, so we get over to my changing the hand shape, it's going to be the open B. But we go like this. My, right? M. So we had I I, and then we can make it possessive by just doing the open, B, and going M. All right. So same motion coming into the body and when I finish, I'm lightly resting on my chest, right? So I or me, and then M. Mm. Very useful stuff and very common. Good to know. All right, so you, right? Personal pronoun you were going to use that finger? Whoever you're talking to, whoever you're having a conversation with, you're looking at them, just point at them. All right? You. If you're sitting this way, but you're kind of talking to someone over here, you know, swivel as much as possible, show them respect and point at them. You, right? You. Some people might say that pointing is rude, but in ASL, you need to point because that's how you communicate, right? It's not seen as rude. It's just explaining the circumstances. You, right? Me? Me? No, I? No, it's you. Okay. Now, right? We're going to do the same motion. You're talking to someone. But the hand shape is the open B. So your, right? You. You, right? Mine? Mm mm. Is it mine? No, uh. It's yours. Your. Alright? You and your. Okay. Moving forward. Okay, interesting here. He and she and he and she, right? So here we go, personal pronouns, index finger pointing. Now, he and she. Hmm. Lovely thing about American sign language is that this pronoun is gender neutral. American sign language is gender neutral. So for this sign, if you think of Spanish, French romance language, you have a feminine form, masculine form. You got to make it fit with the verb with the nouns. You got to do all that stuff. I language is very efficient, gender neutral. So he or she is just referring to a single individual, right? So it could be he, she, that person, even the singular they, they like somebody left their bag in the car and we're just talking about a one person. Right? So he or she, you're just gonna point at them, right? Point at them. If it's George over there, and we want to say he, we would point at George. He, wherever they are. If George is up there, there's a catwalk up there, and he's up there and we want to talk about George, we would say he, he, right? We'd point at him. Mm hmm. If Mary is over there or way back there, we'd go she, right? She or Jill, and we just want to refer to her as, like, that person. That person. We just point. It's a single motion. Single motion. Point, point. Don't point like this because that's, you know, you. I'm talking to you. I wouldn't point at you to say he. If the person was behind you and I want to say he, but he's behind you, you know, I just kind of move over. He. He. You know, that guy over there. Okay, so let's do his and her. Same thing, single motion towards the person you're referring to. So if it's Mary, Her, right? Her car, right? Tom, his cat. Alright? His cat, right? Okay. So remember, ASL, American Sign Language is gender neutral. Here we're just referring to a single person, so we're going to point at them or move in their direction one time. Okay? So her her E, E, she, his her, right? Okay, good, good. Let's do. All right. So personal pronouns, and we're going to also do R. We'll get there. We'll get there in a moment. We, same finger, we're just going to tap on our chest twice like this. That is we. It's also for us. We, we from the side, we, we. If you're lefty, no problem. Start over here. We. I'm righty, my dominant hand is my right hand, so I go we we. Okay, so hour whoop hour open B, right? This time, it's a similar motion, but you have to have that hand shape open B, and it's like this hour hour from the side, hour. Kind of making a curving motion in front. I guess, you start on one side and move to the other Hour, hour, right? If you're left y, no problem. Hour, hour. And even if you're right y, but you feel more comfortable signing with your left, just pick one hand and stick with it, so it's easy to communicate. Alright? So we have we we, and then we have Hour, hour. Okay, good. Alright. They. Alright? So we're talking about multiple people, two or more people, they. We're going to use the finger. Alright? So wherever they are, let's say it's Fred and George. They're over there. We would say they. They, Alright? If they're over there, they they, you see how I'm arking I'm arking? If we just do one point, that's just one person, one individual. We have to ark to show that it's multiple people. They them, they, right? Okay? For there when we want to show possession, similar thing. They're over there, there. There. There. They're over here, there. All right? Uh huh. Uh huh. And make sure when we're doing they or there, we have to do it off to the side. There, you know, they because if we do it in the middle, it changes the meaning, all right? And it becomes plural. Okay, so they was like this with the finger, they. But if you cross in front, pretend there's an imaginary line here. If you go like this, you cross in front, it means you plural, like you all. All right? You all are crazy or you all are happy, something like that, right? You all. All right? If we're going to do the possessive pronoun, still use open B, and we'll go. You. All right? Remember, their was off to the sign like their car, their house, whatever, we want to do your car or your house, your. We have to cross that invisible line. Mm hmm. Your your or you, as in you all plural. Mm hmm. Alright, let's mention a couple of things. All right? If we're talking about he she or even they Hey, and we're referring to people that are not currently present, right? So if they're there, George is over there, it's easy to go, Oh, he, right? Hi, right? But let's say George is not here or George just left. If George just left, we can just refer to where he was immediately before. So he was sitting over there, so we can still refer to him by just saying, you know, George. He, he, right? But let's pretend George was never here. But we're talking about him. He came up in the conversation. Well, if we want to say he we just sign off to the sign. He. Now, George isn't physically here, but we just pick a space and we just point at it. We point in that general direction. So he's happy. I don't know. He's sad. He. We just do he to represent George. Now, if we're talking about his car, George's car, his car, but George isn't actually here, same thing. Just go off to the side. His car, right? His car. Same thing for she or her. Uh her cat, we're talking about Julie, or Julie's not here, but we'll go, she's running she's running fast. I don't know. She just point off to the side to refer to people that aren't actually here. And the same thing works for they, right? If we're talking about Peter and Martha, I don't know, but they're not here, we can just point off to the side and say they want to do it over here, that's fine. Just be consistent so that in the conversation it's obvious, you know, they I'm talking about them. Okay? And there, same thing there when they're not physically here, they're here, just do it towards them. Alright. Hopefully, that was clear. We just blasted through personal pronouns. Sounds good. 72. Review - Pronouns (060, 24) %%: Okay, we already learned all of the pronouns. Okay, so it's time for some practice. All right? We have all the pronouns here. They're going to light up. There'll be a black box around each of them individually. You sign it before I do. Okay? Here we go. Let's try the first one. All right? How do you sign your plural? Okay, so we know it's going to be open B. It's on that side. It's going to be an open B, and we do it in front. You. You. Remember, we got to cross that invisible line. Next one. Right? Index finger. Right. Okay, off to the side. Index finger, they, we have to arc. They, we have to communicate. It's more than one person. They, they, they. Okay? Open B there. There. All right? It's off to the side, there, there. Okay. Index finger point at the person or in their direction. He. G. E, G. That person, single individual. And if they're not there, remember, we can just point off to the sign, he or she, right? When we're referring to them in the conversation. Mm hmm. Next one. All right, open B, You. Mine. Uh uh. Your Your. We. Okay. All right, index finger, two taps. We, we, we. All right, open B and hour hour hour. I, right? I also works for me. Okay, you plural, index finger. As in, you all, you plural. Cross that imaginary invisible line. Remember if you do it off to the side, it's what? It's they or them. They, right? Okay? My open B, M. M. Hm. M. Open B. Single motion in the direction of the person. His. Her. Hi. Or her. Right. And if they're not there, just do it off to the side. His or her. Mm hmm. Okay, good, good, good. So we just reviewed them all. Wonderful. 73. Explore - ASL Sentences: In English, spoken English, we could say he eats a pineapple. Well, it would change a little bit if we're going to sign it in American sign language. We would just say he eat pineapple. We would sign, he eat Pineapple. All right. So let's talk about the differences between the English and the ASL. Well, you'll notice that the verb eat. We don't conjugate it. In ASL, you just sign it. You just do the base sign. It's wonderful. It's very efficient. English Spanish, romance languages, you have to conjugate the verb to the past, present, subjunctive, all of that stuff. In ASL, just sign the word, right? It's just that basic sign. It's like the simple present all the time. All right? This is beyond the scope of this course, but you do future past, stuff like that by putting in extra words like tomorrow, yesterday, before, right? You would put those words in to indicate the time when it's happening. All right. So take away right now. Don't worry about conjugating the verb in American sign language. Just do this sign. So he eat pineapple. Mm hmm. All right. Let's take a look. Let's move forward. Okay? You might say he eats pineapples, as in plural, pineapples in English. Well, in American sign language, you're just going to do the same sign. Alright? This is a general rule, okay? So you would still sign he eat Pineapple. Now you're asking, Okay, how do we know when you're signing pineapple that it means more than one? Well, this is one simple sentence out of context, right? We haven't given it a context. If you were actually signing this with a person, you would have much more information. For example, you see Fred over there, and he's sitting surrounded in pineapples, right? So we might say, Oh, he eats pineapple. It's understood it's not just one pineapple. It's the pineapples all around him, right? That group of pineapples. So we know it's plural. All right. Another way, if you really need to make sure the difference between singular and plural, we might say a few pineapples. We might say a lot of pineapples or just the number five pineapples, ten pineapples. Mm hmm. All right, so the sign is going to be the same. The base sign is the same. We would need more information, which we would get from the context to know if it's plural or singular, or like I said, we can say a few a lot or maybe the number. Okay. So in our little situation here, signing, just do the signs. So if I showed you this, you would just sign, he eat pineapple. Mm hmm. Okay, okay. Let's make it a little bit more complex because we've learned the pieces, the puzzle pieces. Now we're putting them together. Alright, how would you sign he eat my pineapple? Hmm. So in spoken English, it would be he eats my pineapple. But remember, in American sign language, don't worry about conjugating the verb. Just do the signs. Alright? So what do you think? He eat my pineapple. Mm. He was eating pineapples before, but now he's eating mine. What would you say? Okay? Well, we would go. He eat my pineapple. Mm hmm. E eat my pineapple. Ah. All right. Let's try another example. All right? We have the simple sentence. How would you sign we drink milkshake? Mmm. In English, it might be we drink milk shakes, right? But the signs right here, we drink milkshake. How would you sign that? Well, we have the puzzle pieces. We have the pronoun, the verb, and the vocabulary word, the noun. So let's do it. We drink milk, shake. Just like that. We drink milk, shake. Mm hmm. Delicious. Alright, let's throw in a pronoun. Okay. Who, no milkshake this time. We're going for soup. Alright. How would we sign? We drink their soup. Hmm. What do you think? What do you think? Well, piece by piece, word by word, sign by sign. Let's do it. We drink there, soup. They don't like it, but we do it. We drink there, soup. Mm hmm. Alright? What if we changed it just a little bit and we say, we drink our soup. What do you think? Mmm. You see how it's just puzzle pieces. We just have to put them in. And if we know the different puzzle pieces, we can just insert. So we're changing we change there to our. What do you think? How would we sign it? All right? We drink our soup. Now, the context could be, you know, maybe there's different bowls of soup and someone's like, Hey, you're drinking our soup. And they're like, No, we're drinking our soup. Who knows? Okay, once again, we drink our soup. All right. Okay. Okay. Let's move forward. Alright? How about you Plural love his hamburger. How would you sign that? Mmm. Alright? So it's you plural, as in, like, you all. Love is hamburger strange sentence. But the whole purpose here is to get you putting the signs together because we've learned we learned the vocabulary words, the verbs, the pronouns, but by themselves. Well, it's great, but they're kind of stuck, right? The whole point is to start communicating, put the words and signs together. Okay, so once again, you love his hamburger. Why? I don't know, but you do. Alright, let's change it just a little bit. You love my hamburger. As in, you all, you plural love my hamburger. Alright, how would you sign? Mm hmm. Well, you, plural, love my hamburger. Mm hmm. Stay away. You love my hamburger. Mm hmm. Okay, so I think you can see how this is working. We have all the different puzzle pieces. Just take your time, do each sign. We've learned it. You can do it. All right. So let's take a peek in to the next two parts, which will be testing, right? And review with the timer. Okay, this timer will have 7 seconds. So this is what it looks like. Alright? Mm hmm. So that's 7 seconds. And I'm going to show you a sentence. Alright? A little nice, sweet, short sentence, but we've learned it all. I'll show it to you. Start the timer. You know how it works. Okay? Let's do a quick test right now. Let's do it. Here you go. Okay, so I want your breakfast. Mm hmm. Once again, I want your breakfast. Mm hmm. Okay. All right. So that would be the first part. You race the timer if you need to pause because the timers too quick or skipped your mind. No problem. Just pause the video and proceed when you're ready. Alright? Next part will be with my little buddy down there with the glasses, Uh huh, which means you're going to watch me. You try to understand. It's great to learn to sign, but once we start interacting with people, if we have no idea what they're saying, it's kind of pointless. Alright? So this is recognition practice, understanding. So I'm gonna sign. You take a look. Uh huh uh huh. What What is he doing? Ah, try to figure out what I'm signing, right? So here we go. Let's try it. All right. So what did I do? What do you think? Okay, so I did she love her popcorn? She love her popcorn. Alright, so if you thought it was he love his popcorn, that would be right as well, because remember, he and she are the same sign. All right? This is a sentence taken out of context, right? If we were in a situation, it would be obvious. He, she, right? So remember he or she? You're just pointing, right? So if you thought it was he love his popcorn, you're right. All right? You're right as well. Alright. Okay, so Mm mm. The testing time, let's have some fun. You've worked hard to get to this spot, right? So first section, you sign what you see. After that, I'm going to sign, and you try to understand what I'm saying, okay? If you need to repeat, while I'm signing and you go back, that's fine. Have fun and just enjoy yourself. Here we go. Where are my glasses? Ha. I won't be talking, right? Alright, let's do it. 76. Explore - ASL Questions: In spoken English, we might say, Do you want a strawberry? Well, in sign language, we would shorten it up because we're not gonna worry about the A's, the does, the do, the small words, throw them out. We would just sign. You want strawberry. Okay, very straightforward. Efficient to the point, okay? Let's try another one. In English, we might say, Does she love eggs? Right? In sign language, what do you think? American sign language? Well, throw out the small words, the does those, and just do she love eggs? Alright? She love eggs? Alright? So we're going to be talking about making questions in American sign language. We need to talk about correct facial expressions to indicate, communicate that we're asking a question. All right. Let's take a look here. All right, we have they hate sour cream. All right. So watch my face when I sign sour cream, right? Watch my eyebrows, watch my head, my body movements. Here we go. I'm going to sign this sentence, this question. Okay. Did you notice when I signed cream, my eyebrows went up. I leaned forward a little bit, and I have, like, an inquisitive look, something I want to know. We need to show that it's a question, right? So once again, they hate sour cream. Uh huh. So in spoken English, our voice kind of goes up. There's some inflection in there to indicate that it's a question. In sign language, we show body motion, expressions, facial expression to indicate a question. Alright? Let me show you what this sentence looks like if it's just a statement, a positive statement, right? So they hate sour cream. So not a question this time. Watch see the difference. Okay? That's a statement. Now, watch the question. Okay, interesting here. All right. So the first part of the sentence, you can have your face be normal. But once you get to the last word or so, you need to start making it look like a question, right? So they hate sour cream. Right? It's like you're an investigative journalist or something, and you're like, huh? Who's got the scoop? You want to know? Uh huh. You're leaning forward to get the information. Those are the same movements that we muse for making a question, communicating a question in American sign language. Mm hmm. Alright, so once again, this one, they hate sour cream. Okay. Alright? Let's take a look at another one. Lots of practice. Alright, I drink tea. How would you sign it? What do you think? Question. We got to communicate that it's a question, not a statement. What do you think? Well, we would go, I drink tea. All right, so the I and the drink, regular facial expression, that's fine. When you get to T. Now, I suppose you could go, I drink tea for the whole sentence, but it's kind of uncomfortable to have this expression for the whole sentence, especially if it's a long sentence. So by just indicating at the end, people will understand that it's a question. So I drink, we're establishing it, then T. Ah, it's a question. All right. Let's see what it looks like when it's a statement. I drink tea. All right? I drink tea. All right? Kind of a neutral. I might even nod a little bit to affirm that it's a positive statement, but I'm not going like this. I'm not raising my eyebrows. Mm hmm. All right? So this question and the question that we did before, they're all yes no questions, right? So you can answer yes, no, or I suppose you could say maybe, right? Because it's a yes, no question, the eyebrows go up, right? In other situations where it's a W question, the eyebrows will furrow down. But that's beyond the scope of this course right now. We're just going to do yes no questions. So watch again, I drink tea. All right? Eyebrows up. Okay, okay. All right. So remember, three parts when you're communicating the question, eyebrows up. Lean forward a little bit. Kind of inquisitive look, you want to know. Alright. So let's do some practice before we jump into our test. What? Test? Yes, we love tests. It's a great way to show and demonstrate our skills. Alright, so we have the timer, Alright? I'm going to show you a sentence. This time and these two parts only questions. So you're going to be a lot of eyebrow raising, right? Uh huh, to communicate that it's a question. So let me show you this question. Nice short little sweet question. You as the timer. Let's do it. Okay, very important. First part, you love eat breakfast. Well, eat morning, right? Uh huh, which is breakfast. Alright? So when you signed breakfast, I rose up, leaned forward. You love breakfast. Do you love breakfast. Okay, so that's the first part where I will show you a sentence. It'll be a question, only questions this time around, and you sign it. Alright. So the next part after that, we're going to jump in and you'll watch me sign. I will only be signing questions, right? But you try to figure out what question am I asking. All right? All right. Let's take a look here. All right, so let's do a quick test. I'm going to sign something, you figure out what am I signing? What do you think? What did I sign? I signed. He hate coffee. I'm asking. He hate coffee? Eyebrows up, lean forward. Uh huh. Who knows? But right now, we're just asking the question. Alright? So first part you sign, see the hand? Uh huh, uh huh. Second part I will sign, and you figure out what I'm seeing. So putting on the glasses, let's jump in. Let's do it. 79. Learn - Signs for YES, NO, MAYBE: Let's talk about the signs for, yes, no, and maybe. Mm hmm. All right. Let's start with yes. All right? Make a fist. The letter S, right, S. Now tilt it forward and tilt your head. Yes. From the side? Yes. Other side? Yes. Okay, let's talk about no. All right? We're going to go like this. All right? Make the letter, right? Put it flat. Now, let your thumb out there and kind of pinch them, right? Like a little crocodile. Alright? Point it at whoever you're talking about or talking to, right? No. Mm hmm. Alright, maybe we're going to go like this. Here's the hand shape. Put them down here, palms facing up. Now, it's kind of like scales, right? You're weighing back and forth because you're unsure, maybe, right? Maybe. Mm hmm. From the side, maybe. Other side, maybe. Mm hmm. Okay, so let's sign. Sign with me. Let's do yes, no, maybe. Alright. Here we go. Yes. No. Maybe. Right? When you're doing maybe, you have, like, an unsure look on your face. Yes, you have Mm hmm. An affirmative head movement. No, Unh unh unh. Alright, let's do it again. Yes, no, maybe. Sign with me. Yes. No, maybe. Alright, let's see a little bit in action. Okay. How would you sign? Yes, I love milkshakes. What do you think? All right? Well, we just go, yes, I love milk shakes. Uh huh. Yes, I love milkshakes. Wow. Okay, let's do one for maybe. Alright? So maybe someone else says he likes bananas. And then we're like, maybe. He eats oranges, right? He eat oranges. All right? So let's sign it. How would you do it? All right? Maybe. He eat oranges. Mm hmm. All right? Maybe. He eat oranges. All right? Here, the maybe kind of its own is functioning by itself because it's answering whatever the person has said before in response. And then it adds a positive statement, he eat oranges. In this situation, it's all together. It's one sentence. Maybe I want pizza. All right? So there's no pause after maybe, right? How would you sign it? Hmm. How would you sign it? Maybe I want pizza. Mmm. Maybe I want pizza. Mm hmm I do want pizza. Okay, let's see one with no. Alright? No, we want sour cream. What do you think? Maybe they said, Do you want ketchup? They're like, No, we want sour cream. Uh huh. How would you sign it? Alright? No. We want sour cream. Mm mm. Alright? You can also do a double tap, no. If you need to do it extra to really get it across. Goodness, we want sour cream. Okay, no. We want sour cream. Okay, good, good. So we talked about the signs for yes, no, and maybe. Yes, no, and maybe. All right? One thing. Remember, you can go no. You can also double tap. You can really just lay it in there. Uh huh. Okay, once again, yes, no, maybe. 80. Explore - ASL Dialogues: Alright, so we've learned how to sign sentences like this one. No, I want carrot. Alright? We've learned how to form questions. You want pasta? Alright? Why don't we put them together? And then we can have a nice little mini dialogue, right? You want pasta? No, I want Harrots. Alright, once again, you want pasta? No, I want Herot. Alright, let's try another one. Alright, let's see. How would you sign all of this? He loved breakfast? No, he loved lunch. What do you think? All right? He love breakfast. No. He love lunch. Mm. Once again, He loved breakfast. No. He loved lunch. Alright, cool, cool. We're putting it into action. Alright, let's try this one. They hate coconut? Yes, they hate coconut. Alright? How would you sign it? They hate coconut? Yes, they hate coconut. Again, here we go. They hate coconut? Yes, they hate coconut. Alright. All right. So we've been doing some practice, little mini dialogues. Let's do a little bit more serious practice because we're going to get into testing, right? We got to do some review. We've learned so much, it's time to prove ourselves. Alright, the first part, got the hand down there. You'll be signing. All right. Let me show you a little mini dialogue. And I'm going to give you 12 seconds. So that's a nice chunk of time. Work your way through the dialogue. Take your time. If you want to pause the video, make sure you do it. No worries. Alright. So here we go. Here is your dialogue. Sign like crazy. You want hamburger? Maybe. I want smoothie. Mm hmm. Okay, good. That will be the first part of the test. You sign. You have the timer. Pause if you need to. That's no problem. Alright. Second part. No timer and my little buddy down there with the glasses. Alright, so I'm going to sign the whole dialogue, okay? So I'll sign the first part. The second part, you figure out what am I signing? Alright, here we go. This is what we're going to do. All right. What did I sign? Mmm. I signed we drink water. No, you drink juice. Uh huh. Uh huh. And the U plural, right? Alright, let's do it again. We drink water. No, you drink juice. Alright. Awesome. Wow. See what we're able to do? Okay, first part, you sign. I'll have the timer up there. Second part I'm gonna sign. Uh huh. Take a look. What am I doing? If you need to pause, have me repeat. No worries. Alright? We've been studying like crazy for a long time. Let's show our skills. 83. Conclusion & Thank You%: Okay, thank you. Thank you for studying and learning with me. I hope you had a wonderful time. I had a wonderful time. Thank you. See you later.