Hello!!!!
I cannot believe it’s been 3 weeks of learning sign language (ASL) already!
This week was an interesting one. I used Youtube as a resource last week, and the individual that I watched was incredibly useful!! Even though this was really useful to learn from, I wanted to find a resource aside from Youtube to use this week. I ended up finding this really cool resource by simply typing “ASL Alphabet” into Google. Simple way to find it, but it worked. I tried to run before I could walk last week, and jumped right into sentences and words. I was eager, but over my head very quickly. This week I took a step back, and started slow. By learning the alphabet, it helped me recognized some words I had looked at last week! Did you know to say ‘no’ in ASL, you just sign the letters ‘n’ and ‘o’?
I practiced signing the alphabet every day, but instead of timing how long I did it for, I tried to do the alphabet in ASL at least 4 times in a row with the website. After that I tried it without the website, and made myself restart every time I got mixed up or hesitated. It was a pretty strict way to teach myself, but I want to try different learning methods through this as well to see which is the most efficient for myself!!
The pros of the resource: it was really easy to navigate!
The cons: honestly, I wish it went into more detail with the signing examples. They were really good, but even if the website had a tiny video of how to move fingers into the proper position, instead of just showing the hand already signing.
Overall it is going well, and I hope by my next post that the alphabet in ASL is as easy as the alphabet out loud!
Thanks for reading!
~ Dallas ~
