An “Aha!” Moment
For my learning project this week I decided to learn the signs for colours! I found these signs to be quite fun to learn. They were kind of tricky though because they were all very different from each other, rather than variations of a similar sign. I did notice a connection between some of the signs for letters and colours. For example, the sign for “yellow” is very similar to the sign for “Y” and the sign for green is similar to “G” just with some movement. Recognizing the connection between the colours and the letters they start with was kind of an “aha!” moment for me this week.
I used the amazing Sign Language 101 website to learn my colours this week. I am loving the free videos they share that break down different language areas for ASL learners.
I also decided to showcase my learning my creating another TikTok video. this time, I wanted to try out using a text to speech tool within my video. After adding text, I also added a voice saying the colours that I was signing. I thought it was pretty neat that there were lots of different voice types you could choose from. As it’s almost Halloween, I went with the “Trickster” voice for my video. I hope you enjoy watching me sign the colours in ASL!
Hi Stephanie! you seem to have a lot of progress, to have noticed the patterns I think will be a great advantage and it will make it easier to learn future words. They do seem fun to do, I would get confused with so many signs, they seem easy but there is a lot to learn
I am also doing ASL and have yet to learn the colours but I also noticed that there was a direct link between colours and the corresponding letters. I know this is a common theme through the language but my worry is that I will get confused between green and some other word that may also use the hand shape for the letter g. Do you think this will also be an issue and if so do you have any ideas to combat this?