00:00:04 Okay. Hi. Tell me where you're watching. Cool work. Oh, Hey Kevin. Oh, nice. It's so funny. I get on here and I expecting to see you guys, so that's a little bit sad. Hey crystal. Sorry Orlando. It's good to see you guys. Nice. Okay. Oh my gosh. Friends. Okay. Mean kitten since she's got like [inaudible] yes. She keeps [inaudible] and give him away. He finds a way. Okay. A good way. Cause I love that. Oh, Walla Walla. Yeah, pretty close. Nice. I won't tell you buddy. That's cool. Friday night. Okay. Are meeting video loaded? Yeah. Oh, my glove in that last week he stands.

00:01:58 That's awesome. Are you going to get the [inaudible]? Yes, I have. I mean [inaudible] nice to meet you. I'm just going to give him the day so I'm still, I've done, yeah. Version of the work. Knew the resources script. Awesome. Jonathan. That's really [inaudible] okay. Kathy. It could be, it'll be mine. Like the blurry, but okay. Hopes really strong. Very sorry. I know. [inaudible] the replay. I was, um, yeah, the kittens I'm sitting on [inaudible] uh, the audio. I'm really loud. [inaudible] I haven't [inaudible]. Hmm. Well when I record lowest volume away from myself. Yeah. Okay. Okay. It will be CC'd and then once [inaudible] you'll get [inaudible] the whole vibe drip and the CCU, the area, um, CC for the [inaudible] shop.

00:04:16 Bye. Or just the recorded. Awesome. Okay. Hmm. I will stay on urge to [inaudible]. Yeah, hold on. Just [inaudible]. Okay. The [inaudible] okay. Okay. You got to stop him. Okay. Okay. No, I didn't myself. This is how [inaudible]. Okay, here we go. I'm going to share my screen. I'll email them to you and I'll give you the link. Um, this is where you'll find all the resources. Those are for the ones that are, um, from Monday, Monday and Wednesday. Fridays is not in there yet because we haven't completed the workshop, but once it's over, that's where you'll get it. Um, Oh yeah. I don't know why you haven't gotten them. J I'm sorry. They should have been emailed to you. Um, the, I might not have your email in the system yet. I don't know. But you can use that link. There's the black button right there. You can use that and see the other two after this and then later today, um, you can, um, I probably give it a couple of hours cause it takes a while to download the replay and then upload it for captioning than editing the captions and then putting it over into a, then I have to upload it again and then put it over to the side.

00:06:17 So it takes a while. Yes, I am Abrar. I am, um, so fill out an application if you want to know what he's talking about. She's talking about, sorry. Um, go to my website. It's very bottom. I'm hiring. Huh. Okay. Oh cool. Thanks. I know, I was like, I realized I forgot to tell everybody a Wednesday I made a finger spell practice video for you guys. Um, so check that out. Also the finger spell Friday video went live today, so you can do that one. And um, I do have a practice one for you guys just for you inside. Um, that resource replay area right there. Oh, cool. Um, okay.

00:07:07 I'm working on it, Anita. I'm working on it. I will a little bit at a time. It'll be like five hours later. Your eyes are bleeding. Nevermind for show. I don't want a hundred words. Where's my mouse? There it is. Okay, cool. Ah, sometimes, sometimes Rochelle. All right. Remember you can ask questions during the, uh, yeah, Kathy, I didn't do the words because the words are on the screen so you can see, you can get the answers. Okay. So here's the video. Let me know if you can see that I haven't hit play yet. Um, uh, but yes, you can ask, um, questions in the chat as the [inaudible] place. Okay, cool. All right, I'm going to hush up now. Stop sharing my, and then I'll hit play. Let me know how the volume is for you guys. Too loud, too soft, um, or just right. Hey guys. No, nobody's going to be doing anything crazy in here, but we are going to have fun loving grammar again or for the first time ever. So you made one of the KIBO that has messaged me or emailed me or made a comment or posted in a Facebook group that I'm in saying, Oh my gosh, she doesn't know what I do. Grammar is not working for me.

00:08:57 Unconfused I forget. I can time of sometimes for grail on paper, but once it comes time to signing it, it's not gonna work and then I get paralyzed and fearful, then I'm going to do it wrong. So then I got signed and I especially don't sign with other people or maybe you're one of the people that was like, it doesn't matter how many times I'll look at the rules and looked at the lessons and do the work. I still don't know what's the topic. I still don't know where to put what. I don't know which comment's supposed to come first. Which comment comes at the end. It's super confusing. I'm done. I don't know if I'll ever get this. Maybe my brain just doesn't work this way. And you also might be one of those sinus that years like um, no matter what I do when I signed, like I can get it on paper, but as soon as I signed I start doing hearing, signing where I'm practically doing SI signing, which is signing exact English or I'm doing pigeon sign but more on spectrum of sea rather than closer to the ASL side and just don't know if it's ever going to change.

00:10:09 Like my brain just doesn't work that way. I just can't figure out how to take it from here and to use it here in an actual signed conversation. So today we're going to talk about what's going on here and how we change it and fixing so that when we are signing with people, we are using ASL grammar naturally. You don't have to like clamp our brains and like wait like 20 seconds between each side and you're like, Oh my gosh, I just signed that wrong. Mommy, go back and fix that. That we can actually have a conversation without stressing about the grammar. But we can still be accurate in our use of grammar because that's important. Also. So first let's talk about what's going on right now. Either maybe don't even know about ESL grammar. And you're like, this is the first time, so maybe this doesn't apply to you, but the solution is still going to apply to your started ASL grammar stick around because the solution is still going to be something that you're gonna want to use.

00:11:20 Um, and which is great because then you don't have to go through all this hassle and that [inaudible] whatever the word is with that. Okay? So if you are struggling with as little grammar, and I think the majority of you are, is you, it's going to sound ridiculous coming from me. Rachelle, who loves and preaches ASL glamour to the Hills, right? You are hyper focusing on the, and you are trying to memorize the rules and it's just like every bit of your energy is like ma, but it's, but when you work on it, you're hyper focusing on it. Okay. So, and you're trying to like memorize all the rules and when you do this and when you do that, and so when you go to like actually do it, sign, Oh, you can think about all those rules and everything else kind of goes away. So you can see this when you're thinking Glish you're thinking the English, you're like, okay, I want to tell Benny that my dog is sick and we don't know what's going on.

00:12:40 So you're okay. You're so you thinking, okay, this is what I want to tell Betty that he was sick. I don't know what's going on. We have no figured out what it is. So then normally you would write it down, write it in Whitney cell. So you do all the diagramming and the labeling of the things and putting all together right, and put it all together. And then you got to take it from here and sign it. So you sign it and he'd go, Oh wait, that's not right. So let's tweak it, change it, make it look right, and then sign it. And so if you're in an actual conversation, you don't have the time to like write it down, right? Know like, okay, I can do that. Right? So in your mind you're taking that English message, you know you're doing that written work in your mind and then you are putting it into the conversation, but you're trying to do it fast.

00:13:40 And so what ends up happening is your signing is choppy and you're so hyper focused on the syntax or the sentence structure, sentence order. Then all the rest of grammar that I love and that is super important and overlooked is not even done like your facial expressions and morphology, mouth markings, all that stuff. Because she came and take about that. You're so focused on let's put it and [inaudible] that everything else flies away. It's gone. So you see this when you're experiencing those times where you're just trying to have a conversation and it's not working, you're choppy or you're a hearing signers, so you're signing more towards the English language and less towards ESL. Um, that's definitely when we know that this is what's happening. Even though you're like, I don't want to do that. What I'm saying, I am working on ASL, but you're still coming out here and this is what's happening. This is what's going on. So let's talk about the solution because that's awesome. Why you're here. I hope so. I, you know, my level roles and you know that I love working on grandma on the paper, labeling it and all that good stuff. You know, I love that. It's like, I don't know what it is, but it makes my heart sing.

00:15:11 We're gonna set that aside for the time being because that aspect of ASL grammar may be holding you back. Instead, we're going to focus on learning memory intuitively. Now there is a place for the rules and for understanding why you do things and when there is a place for that, um, that comes later and we'll actually talk about that in part for, um, workshop. We're going to talk about when that comes into play. Um, but for now we're going to focus on grammar intuitively. Now there's a lot of strategies that we can do to focus on grammar intuitively. And we're going to talk about just briefly some of them and then I'll go into depth in one into one specific area that we talked about with you. So there's quite a few strategies for learning grammar intuitively, and we'll talk about some of them briefly and then I'll go into depth in one or two of them. 00:16:18 Um, just because of the sake of time of our workshop. Okay, we are going to talk about it. All right, so learning grammar, intuitively you can see this in children, um, in child warm and as race and they learned their language and they go to school and it's time to learn grammar. And the teacher's like, okay, is this and it's correct or is this sentence correct? And they pick the correct sentence, but they don't know why they picked it. It just sounds right or just looks right, but they're not sure why that is the case. And that's because they've learned grammar intuitively. All those years of growing up in heard and process of grammar that hear everybody speaking. And then they go, okay, this is the right thing. And then once they're in school, then they will learn the grammar rules and then Dow, they can actually make sure when they're writing and speaking that they are using correct grammar.

00:17:26 So this is the same concept that we use in learning sign language. Now when we learn our grammar intuitively, it lowers our frustration quite a bit because you can easily identify, quickly identify what is right and how you correctly so that you're not there sitting, going, Oh, I think it's, I think it's this. Oh crap, I just messed it all up. When I try again, let me try again. You know, or feeling so frustrated or so out of your debt that when it does come time to sign, you're like, I'm going to do a hard pass on that and I'm not going to go because I might know some vocabulary. I may be better at finger smelling. I was at my grandma's all over the place that I don't want to offend anybody. I don't want anybody to say anything mean to me. I, I just, I'm not going to go, I'm not going to do it.

00:18:29 So when we learn grammar intuitively, that removes that whole thing from our lives because it lowers that frustration and then becomes a natural, it almost becomes like a habit that we don't even realize that we've developed, you know? But it's a good habit, thank goodness. Right? So our grammar, when we sign it feels easy. It feels natural. It feels intuitive because we've been learning it intuitively. And then our conversations come easier because we can just focus on saying, and maybe it is, you can focus on adding in more expression or play around with how you signed something and we'll have fun with it and learn new things and meet new people and make better connections with people. Because all you have to do is you don't have to worry about all the other things. You've got plenty to worry about anyway. When it comes to learning a language, let's not worry about one more thing.

00:19:29 Okay, let's remove this from our plate. Still work on it, but do it in a way where it doesn't really feel like we're working on it. Okay. Another really nice thing about focusing on grammar and this intuitive way, which I'm going to show you how to do in just a minute, is it makes your practice time very efficient and very streamlined because then you can work on more than one theme at a time, and I'll talk to you about that right now. So you might be thinking, okay, well yeah, okay, you didn't learn grammar intuitively. If you go out and converse with people, get out on the deck, you maybe watch a bunch of videos and stuff and you're not wrong. You can do that. We've talked about why some dangerous to put our, the responsibility of learning on a, on a group of people or a person. 00:20:21 It's not always reliable, it's rarely consistent and a lot of times it's very limiting because of the access to other, the group or the person. Maybe you don't have any, and again, I'm going to talk about that in more depth in part four of the workshop series because that's a whole nother aspect, but those, so while a but I wanted to talk about them because while those are really great ways to get grammar intuitively and I still encourage you to do those, we don't want to put all of our grammar on an external source that we cannot control. We need to still learn grammar intuitively, but we need to do it in a way that is accessible and consistent and regular at all level with where we're at with the word signing ability. So you need your grammar material to match it, vocabulary, finger spelling material, and as your vocabulary and bring your spelling material increase.

00:21:23 You want that ground material didn't create as well and on and on and on. There's lots of ways that we can work on our grammar intuitively. Today we're going to talk about one of those weights and one of those ways is called deliberate listening. So deliberate listening is actually broken into three ways you can do it. And you will recall this workshop. You can do this immediately. So this is something you can do right away, which is why I want to talk about this. My first. So the look we're listening is the idea of sitting down and listening or are if they'll listening are receptive. Listening deliberately. Like we're not just like going to a deaf event and signing with people. We're sitting down to focus on our receptive skills to focus on our grammar skills. So deliberate listening has three ways to do this.

00:22:30 First one is called dictation. Okay? And I'm going to show you in real time what this looks like so that you can get a better idea of it. Alright, so dictation is when you, so in sign language, you're gonna pull up a video and you're gonna watch the video. And as the video plays, you write down what it is that they're signing as they stand. So you might have to pause it so you can keep up with them, right? But you write down what they're saying as they say. And when you get to a part where you don't understand, like say that, Oh, this was assigned, we don't know. You pause it and then you go and look it up and find what that sign is. So you pause, figure out what the sign is, and then you rewind just a little bit to keep watching and keep going.

00:23:34 Write it down until you get to another part that you don't understand and then you figure out what that is and you want to just attack and then keep watching. Okay, so this is doing a lot of things. You're working on your receptive skills, you're working on your vocabulary skills, and you're definitely working on your grammar. You just may not realize that you're working on your grammar because you're seeing the order that everything is being signed in until it's, you're writing it down and you're watching it and comprehending it. You're getting a double layer of putting it into your brain because you're writing it and research shows that you remember a lot more as you write, and then you're also getting me here and you're getting it in the form. That's the most important. The signed form. Okay. The second method is called skipping. Now this is similar to deliberate listening. 00:24:37 The only thing that different is you're not writing down what you see. You're still focusing on what it is like. So you're still seeing the signs in the order and you stop when you don't understand, figure out what it is, rewind it, keep going and go through that whole process. You're just not writing, but you are soaking it in your mind. You are saying, you are telling yourself, okay, this is what being signed. Now you're not going, Oh, and that's the topic and Oh, that's the comment of, Oh that's the action and Oh, that's the time. No, you're just identifying what's being signed. Okay? Now the third way to do this is called shadowing. Now shadowing is quite a bit fun. So you're gonna we just have our same video, right? We have our same video or convenient for video. It doesn't matter. We have the video and we play in as they sign.

00:25:41 We signed with them. So we sign along with them in real time, patching their expression, matching where they sign it. So if they saying something over here rather than here, we're going to sign it over here. So we're matching everything that they're doing. And if you get to a part where you don't know what it is, you stop can figure it out. But like I don't know what that sign is. Okay, let's figure out what that sign is rather than just mimicking something we don't know. Right. So we figured out what that sinus and then we move on and we keep going. So we wind back a little bit. Or if there's a part where like, Oh and I couldn't keep up, you rewind again and try again. So you can keep up with them. So when you do shadowing, it can be helpful to do shadowing in a video that you've just added them dictation or skipping in because then you can understand what they sign and you seen at one Oh one time through.

00:26:37 So then your brain is like, okay, I know what they're signing. And so when it goes to signing it along with them, it is a lot easier, but it's not necessary. You don't actually have to do that. You can just pull up a new video and start signing along with them. Now this one shadowing is particularly fun because you are getting the receptive, you're getting the vocabulary. Of course you're getting the grammar that you're also getting expressive. So you're practicing, you're signing express. It means your, your you're doing the signing or receptive means you're watching a signing. So you're getting them receptive because you're watching them. You're getting the vocabulary as you're stopping and making sure you understand what a sign you're getting, the grammar because you're seeing how they do it and you're getting that expressed them signing practice and expressive growl practice because you are signing along with them.

00:27:40 So you're practicing. So it's forcing you to make sure you're signing it correctly. And if you're doing it right, you are matching everything else are doing, whether it be morphology, whether it be a mouth morphing, their facial expressions, their placement, their, their index in their listing, they're shifting. You weren't doing all of it and that is really, really like Holy smally is going to help you with your grammar even more so. I highly recommended you add shadows into your repertoire of grammar practice because you're getting four for one or dictation and skipping. You get three for one shadowing, you get four really five for one and that's like it's not even a trifecta. It's a five specter of amazingness. 00:28:39 That's not right. If I'm being grammatically incorrect, see what I did anyway. When you sit down to do this, it's seriously when you sit down and practice your grammar and this way you increase your understanding of others. When they sign to you, you increase your understanding of grammar and expressive grammar and of course you're making your practice have that much more efficient because you're learning your vocabulary as well. If you really just doing so much practice into one little session and it can be as long or short as you have the time for it to be, then it's going to be that much more effective and impactful to your sign language success with less amount of time investment. And to me, that's most incredible thing I did. It really is important that it be on level with where you're at. You don't want to be watching videos that you'd have to pause every second for every sign for every other side to figure out what the same, because then you're not gonna get the grammar you're not gonna get, you're not gonna get all of that goodness that we talked about because you're just going to be like, I don't know what that means.

00:30:09 I don't know if that means, I don't know if that means in this increased your anxiety and super frustration with yourself and gonna be more discouraging. So you need to make sure that you pick a video that is level with you. Yeah, we're going to pause here. I'm going to do a demonstration on how to do dictation and skipping in shadow. We can see, you can see it in real time because your assessment is after this workshop is over of course, is to do it yourself. I want you to pick one of the methods in the workbook. You'll see that I have links to some videos that you can watch that maybe on level with where you're at so that you can do this yourself, right? I'm wanting to do deliberate listening method number one dictation. So you see here I have this fun story called [inaudible] gum. I'm gonna hit play and I've got my paper here and 10 I'm going to write down what he says as he says and um, because I know the story and um, I know that I know what he says. I'll just pretend to get stuck on one of the signs just so you can see what I would do. Okay.

00:31:39 [inaudible]

00:31:39 okay, let me pause this. Okay. So I have written so far and I'll go back here. Hi. I tell you a story. ABC gum young boy. I love gum gum chew two. Okay. And maybe I blow bubbles and enjoy. Okay. So this is what I have written down here and let me do that. Um, so I don't know what this sign is right here. So I don't know what that is. So I'm going to get my dictionary out. A handshake dictionary out. Uh, I knew work it and I go, Oh, okay, that's gum. So now I'm gonna skip back with my back arrow here.

00:32:56 Okay? Okay, I missed love kiss fist. Um, okay, let me go back. Make sure I didn't miss anything else. The young boy, he, he, I missed that part. He young boy. Well, kiss fist gum opened, Robert put in his mouth, he's chewing it, chewing it, blowing bubbles. Tune to blow bubbles and joy. Okay, so now that's how I would do dictation. So I've written it down here on paper. What he signed. I've gone back. I'm didn't hear a sign. I went back and rewatch. Just make sure I caught everything and I missed it and I missed his first. So I put that in and watched it over again. Okay. Now the next one is just stripping. So I'm going to watch it and if I step somewhere, I'm going to pause, figure it out and go back. Okay. So maybe I don't know what that sign is. I'm going to hit my back arrow. Go back and look at it better.

00:34:35 Oh, okay. So this time I watched it again. I go, Oh, he said chair. And then you drew a shape. So I'm gonna assume that means bench. Alright. So I want to keep going, but the gum, there you goes. Okay. A man walking, bow tie and glasses and a book underneath his arm is walking. He sits down on that bench, opens up his book and starts reading. Okay. So I can be doing this in my head or I could be doing it out loud. Whichever one's going to help. Okay. So that is a, and is Holly better in your head if you say what the signs are, what they're saying, but you also kind of want to just gonna get a feel for what it is that he's telling me. Um, but, um, I can do it just like I did when I wrote it. I wrote down what he signed and not what he was mean. I just put in order. Okay, so they're skipping and now we're going to do shadowing. So I'm going to sign with him. And if you need to even go over to this deer well here and hit playback speed to do a little bit slower, I wouldn't recommend going going to five or point or half speed. You could do a little bit if it's too fast, but typically I would recommend just do your own skews. Let me skip back a little bit.

00:36:05 Okay. [inaudible] Oh,

00:36:52 okay, cool. No, I was able to keep up with them and knew all of the signs. I did note that the end, but I did the tree and I stuck it to the tree and that my hand is facing wrong. So I would go back and if there was a part where I messed up, I would go, okay, let's try that again. Let me do it all over again. Alright, so that is how you do dictation, dipping and shadowing. All right, have fun. Do it on your own now. So now that you have seen how to do dictation, skipping and shadowing in real time, I want you to pick one of the three and I definitely encourage you to pick out either dictation or shadowing first as the first one that you try, um, cause that's gonna be the most impactful, um, for your first time.

00:37:42 So we're gonna pick one of three, grab your workbook and find the link of the video that's going to match your ASM level and sit down and practice. And we need you do share to set up a quick picture of yourself doing it and post it on Instagram and cabinet so I can see you and get excited and celebrate your amazingness there. Then awesome. Now our next workshop, our last workshop, we're going to talk about more of the things that I mentioned earlier in today's workshop. And we're going to talk about even more importantly, the order that you need to do everything. Cause the order that you learned things in is really a sticking point for a lot of people. And if you do the wrong order, if you learn things in the wrong order, um, it can really mess up your progress and your funding success and we don't want that, right?

00:38:37 This workshop series is all about stopping what's hurting us and doing what is going to help us get there faster. And tomorrow's workshop is like the Holy grail of figuring out what you need to be doing and when. So you're not sitting there going, what do I do now? Like I'm here, I want to get to this level and I'm stuck on this level three journey, this level for each one of these. So we're going to talk about how you get started, what the steps are and how you get from this level to this level, this level to this level and on and on as far as you want to go. So be sure you show up in part for tacos is the name of the game. Yes, tacos is the name of the game. It is, is funny as it sounds and even better is that much more helpful and useful. So I can't wait to see you there. Thank you so much for showing up to this workshop and investing in you with your time because you're worth it. You are amazing and you are far more capable of signing being a fantastic signer than you give yourself credit for. So I'm a really happy, proud that you came here to work on a skill and reach the goal.

00:40:09 Oh,

00:40:11 I don't know why I did that. We are going to figure this out and together we are going to work and get you to where you want. Debbie, I'll see you in our next workshop.

00:40:25 Okay.

00:40:30 No one was talking to you. She's just got jealous. Um, be helpful. But I mean, so, um, um, chat we had that we will and then I'll get to yours. Thank you. I took a week to grow up. Okay. So, and then a week later I was like, thanks Gregory. The story is one of the ones I, yeah, pretty sure I include all the way

00:41:33 I photo those years ago and it hasn't added anything. His facial expressions are so cute that there was, Oh my gosh, I need to, Oh, okay. Cool. Jeff, sorry. Um, I good. I was like, I can't search my whole computer. Um, quick. Hold on me. Oh, thanks. Cher. Open up already. I mean, how many times? How many times? Okay, we'll get to that in a minute and I'll talk about [inaudible]. The PDF decides to work. This is the, as soon as I move on, this is the handshake talking about, okay. When this was made, they're made by the folks that, thanks John, my gallery, that 10 seconds and some [inaudible]. It's 2009. Um Oh, where to begin to search for us. So this is what you do.

00:43:13 So, okay, the dictionary, let me flip to [inaudible]. Okay. Oh, like, Oh my gosh. Shows you these [inaudible] hand shapes that you'll see. You can take a screenshot of this or these are the most common handshakes you'll see. So when you're in a video, you're watching the video and you're like, I don't know what that is. You stop it and you go back. And if you're on YouTube or a video that has a setting where you can slow it down, then I would slow it down so that you can really see how they do the sign. So you first you want to look for the hand shapes. Um, and this dictionary is broken down into one handed signs and two handed signs. So first identify, Oh, okay. Sorry. Deaf bummer, bummer. In the summer. Um, maybe I'll take a picture and send it. Is that copyright violation? I mean they're hand shapes. We'll figure it out. I'm an, I do have PDFs on handshakes. Um, anyway, whatever. We'll figure something out. Um, 00:44:32 okay.

00:44:34 So they do have 102 hand signs. So the first thing to identify if it's a one handed or 200 sign, then you want to identify the best you can. What the handshake is. Is it a five hand? Is it a five meant claw, is it a B? Is it a open be, is it a bin B that those kinds of things. C O flat. Oh, all that. Um, some of that, the handshake one is in

00:45:05 one of the two courses and I know for sure it's in AYSO grammar lab and it they are, I do have whole lessons on hand shapes and all that stuff in ASL accelerated as well. So let's see where was I? So then you would identify it is copyright infringement. Ah, okay. So don't look at what I'm doing. Everybody just live in the cover so I'm not going to take a picture. Okay there. Um, uh, here's the title right here and I put the link in the comments. I'll put it right here too. I'll just hit, it's still in my pace thing. Oh, okay. There it is. You click on that link in the thing and it'll take you straight to the Amazon page where you can find it and it should have pictures in there. Let me get back to the instructions. Identify one or two hands, identify the hand shapes.

00:46:03 If there's more than one hand shape then you'll need to know that. So then it's organized by order of science, like alphabetical order, handshakes. So I know you can't see this and which is good because Jay says, I mean I could be in trouble. So you would go, Oh, it's an open a handshake. This is, Oh Whoa, this is open a, it's also like the 10 handshake. This is opening. This is a, gosh, why is my hunch, was it, this is a, this is open. And so then I'd be like, Oh, okay. They did open a and I'm going to look through this dictionary at all the one handed open a signs and figure and look to see. Okay, and then you want to identify because you remember every sign has five parameters, right hand shape, then Palm orientation, which way is it? Which way is that hand facing?

00:46:56 Where is it located? Is it being signed at the head? Is it being signed at the shoulder out here at the waist? Where is it being signed? And then what's the movement? And was there anything else that happened? So if you can't find it in the workbook now, the workbook, if you can't find it in the dictionary, if you can know and name all of those parameters, at least the first four, you can easily tell somebody else, okay, this is what it was. These are the parameters of it. And then they would be able to identify it rather than, well, it was kind of like this a kind of like a fist and kind of like flying through the air. And I was like, well, I mean that could be like a hundred different signs, right? So if you can get those parameters and also help you find it because you know there's a, you're like, well, it wasn't here in front of the chest like this and it wasn't here behind the body.

00:47:46 So that'll help you sift through this quicker. And I do have signs where it starts in the open, a handshake, and then in somewhere else. So you want to start with what the starting hand shape is and then when you use this dictionary. So that's how you would do that. Otherwise you would want to, um, otherwise you want to ask somebody else, can you? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Here I'll, I'll write it down. The premolars are hand shape Palm. Whoa. If I could spell, which I can, there we go. Those are the five parameters. So you guys can write those down and non- manual markers or anything that you don't do with your hands. So that would be mouth morphemes especially facial expressions, eyebrows, body movement, anything like that. Now keep in mind if you're watching videos of fluent or native signers, they might be, or maybe not necessarily native, but I'm good signers and more experienced signers that not all of the signs that they do are going to be how you're going to find it in a dictionary. So you need to keep that in mind. For instance, like learn is, this is the official sign for learn as learn, but you're not, most people aren't ever bringing it up to the forehead. They bring it up to their cheekbone or they just bring it up into the air. So you want to keep that in mind.

00:49:22 Good online reverse dictionaries. I haven't heard of one. I think somebody mentioned an app earlier. I hate, we'd have to check that out to say if it's a good one or not. Um, so if it was you that posted what the app was, so you, whoever in this audience was the one, then uh, let us know. Let Lynn know here on the comments. Um, if it's a reverse dictionary, um, let's see Jonathan. So I kind of, I hope that helps with the book, but I, I wish that it wasn't as blurry so you could kind of get a little bit better idea of it. It does have a D DVD at the BV. It's like I've never seen one before, a DVD in the back. Um, I don't know if it'll work. Can con yeah, it should. It says it works in PCs and Macs and a DVD players.

00:50:14 I'm assuming, do people even have, um, DVD players anymore? Jonathan wants to know what the sign is for money. So let's go through the parameters. It's an open be hand shape and curved, so it's a curved open be handshake and the Palm orientation is facing your body. And the location is right about the ribs side area and you can do it higher depending on, you know, your signing space that you have and the movement is you lift it up like this. Can you scooch back a little? So you lift it up like that and that's the movement and there's no non mango marker really that you need to do it. I mean you can act like a monkey like my children love to do when they sign monkey. And I won't do it here for you now. So nice try. It wasn't me, but I think it was nice to go. Oh yeah. Okay. Thanks Sherry. Um, okay. That's, that's helpful. So Nolan, it's not what we were looking for.

00:51:17 No, it's not organized by a to Z. It's organized by handshake and the hand shapes are kind of an alphabetical order where it's like a open a be open, be bent, B, C, D, E, F, open, F, G, H, I, K, L. so it doesn't have all the alphabet, but it is in that order. And then it goes and it goes. All of those handshakes, one handed. And then all of those handshakes. Two-handed. Alright. Um, thanks David. What was the other question? Oh, let me do this. A PDF thing so I can show you real quick. Um, let's see. Let me close.

00:52:00 There we go.

00:52:02 Yeah, yeah, I mean obviously it's not going to have everything because you know, that's impossible, but it's still really good. So let me show you this PDF. Hopefully it's the right version one that I wanted to give you. So this is the PDF. Oh my gosh. Come on now. There we go. So this is the PDF that I made for you guys that you get in the Lincoln in there and I go over how you do dictation, skipping, shadowing, blah, blah, blah. Now here is where you get the um, videos. So these right here, candy bar up is um, that guy that we saw, the gum story, candy bar up his him signing. Now this guy right here, hermits, crab, lightening bolt, almost accident. These three right here are going to be a little bit more advanced in, um, the signing. Um, but he's super good, so good.

00:52:59 And he, he has a lot, but I gave you these three cause I really liked, I really like lightning bolt and hermit crabs tail. They were really good. Am I, um, if you really want me to, I can click on the link and you can see it, um, together, but um, really good. And then these ones down here, these three are from Don sign, uh, press, which is a great, great um, company and they have a bunch of, what are they called? Fairy tales. So they have even more, so these are just a little, um, and they do have a voice over for this. So, um, and I'm pretty sure, but it's an English voice over like I'm English grammar, not ASL. And I don't know about the captionings. I should probably check that out. But so mute it when you watch it. And then if you get stuck then you can play that sentence back and unmute it and maybe it'll give you a clue as to what that sign is, but they don't know about the, the, um, grammar.

00:53:59 And now the rabbit's tail is, uh, one that I did. Hopefully this is the right link. Uh, yeah, that's the correct link that I shared with you. Um, and it's, uh, this one is basic ASL vocabulary, basic ESAL grammar. So it's not as like intricate as these other stories will be. I was doing it for a beginner, um, level one, so that's what these are. I met to have them like, Hey, this is a beginner and this one's not, but so I wanted to just pop in here and show you guys that this is one guy, this one the like, seriously, you'll love these. So even if you just watch them anyway, you'll love them. Okay. Alright, let's see now. Okay. Um, well see ya. Um, Sherry, you asked me a question, didn't you?

00:55:07 Um,

00:55:10 where's your question? Nope. Oh, there it is. Up here. Okay. Sherry asks, I've been having trouble understanding the meaning of the sentences that were written out in ASL grammar. Any tips on working on understanding? Um, what I would say, what you could do, Sherry, is you could set those aside and just focus on working on, um, intuitive ASL, grammar C so you can kind of get a better understanding for the better feel for the order and the cadence of everything because it's all in the cadence. Um, sometimes, but if you're like, no, I really just want to work on what's written out here, especially if you're looking at glossing or you just want to be able to take written, glossed ASL and sign it. Um, a good tip is to try and sign it. So if you see, um, I don't have any glossing around me.

00:56:06 If you see something like written down, um, you could sign it and then you'll, you'll start to get it feel for maybe what they're saying or what they, what it, what it means. Because when you closet, it's not like this when you go, when you take the gloss and then you sign it, it's not this static, what's the word? It's not like just this robotic signing. You actually have to like add things in to make it mean something. So it can help you do that cause then you can see it in you and it makes it more tangible. And then it also, Oh, I see why this sign is here, uh, than rather in this location. And you can practice with pausing or changing the way you signed something to see how it affects the meaning of a sentence. I'm not sure if that makes sense. I'm really having a, um, I'm trying to think of how to say what I'm trying to say. That doesn't make any sense either, but let me know if that helped. Okay. Let me scroll down. Let me find where we were.

00:57:23 Um, homes, handshake, orientation, location, movement signals. Nice. Cool. Very cool. I like it. Thanks. Um, that's cool. Thank you so much. What is your candle? Oh, you had a bed ever essential oil diffuser going. Oh, nice. Yes I do. I have two diffusers right here. I've got one right here and I've got one right here that I always have going and I've got, what am I roll ons? And then my two favorite drops [inaudible] and then I might guess this one is, I have one over here, Rose, Rose cottage, cottage Rose. Excuse me, cottage Rose. I love the smell of Rose. Like it's like this old lady smell, but not really like other people's like, Oh, that's the old lady smell. But I love it. I don't know what it is, but I do love vintage anything. So it reminds me of this. And now this one is, I got it at target,

00:58:41 new moon. It's kind of a, what is it? I dunno, but it's super yummy. But I love since an oils for learning and focus and mood. Definitely. Um, Oh that ever for visual learning. That's awesome. I love, I love that. I put it in, um, baths a lot or very cool. I love it. That's fun. Random. Um, do I recommend learning? Okay. Sherri asks different Sherry, do you recommend learning as many vocabulary words that you can first before tackling phrases and Kramer? Uh, yes, I do recommend learning. Um, a lot of words before you start working on grammar. You can work on grammar in conjunction with, um, your site, like learning vocabulary, but you'd want to make sure that the grammar that you're working on matches the vocabulary that you have been learning. So you wouldn't want your grammar to be way above what you're doing. Cause then that just frustrating and it's not gonna help you. So if you're finding like, okay, I can't find, um, videos and on level, and like I said, I am in the midst of making, um, if I show you, I don't even know where to, I don't need to show you squirrel. Um, I could show him my list of videos that I'm making right now. Um, but

01:00:10 yeah,

01:00:12 um, Oh, I just looked at a question and I got distracted. What are we talking about? Dang it. Oh, so if you're having trouble finding the, um, the grammar, the, that would be on level, then I would recommend learning more and more vocabulary before you tackle the grammar. Um, you know, for two to 400 signs and then start working on grammar or get a hundred signs down under your belt and then start adding in the grammar. Uh, but definitely,

01:00:46 um, 01:00:47 get some vocabulary because, you know, if you're watching grammar, you don't know most of the signs, you're not going to get any of the grammar out of it, you know? Um, if it's like signed,

01:00:58 um,

01:01:00 Oh, the other Sherry with an eye, Sherry with an eye is asking, you're having the other question was having trouble understanding grammar. Yeah. Oh, okay. I guess I got it. Right. Good question from Sherry because I'm scrambling too many things that they, once you focus on one skill at a time, this actually, it's really funny. Um, we, this, what's today Friday Sunday's workshop tacos is the name of the game talks specifically to this conundrum. Where do I start? What do I start learning first? What do I do next? When do I introduce this skill? When do I not, how do I do that? All that, that's what's happening in Sunday workshop. So this will, I'll definitely answer that even more in depth. Um, and broader, more specific, um, Sunday for sure, but get some vocabulary words under your belt and then focus on grammar. Can speak, has reversed dictionary hand speak cause that that guy or is that the girl

01:02:05 that's doing that? Um,

01:02:12 I w if it's the guy, is he saying savvy or is he hand speak? If it's the guy, I'd be careful cause a lot of his signs aren't accurate. She's pretty good. Um, what brought upon my passion for ESL? Um, as a funny story, I don't have the book in my office, but my grandmother, um, read to us all the time as kids like books and books and books and books. And one of my favorite books, um, but I had her read to me besides Carebears was Coco's kitten, which is a cocoa, the gorilla that was taught sign language. And at the time, and I was a kid, I was obsessed with monkeys and gorillas. So I was like, Oh my gosh, a gorilla and sign language. This was amazing. Let's, what really brought it to my attention. I was very, very young, toddler, very young.

01:03:04 And that's what brought to my attention. And I read it and read it and read it and read it and anything I could find about her. And then I started to learn about Helen Keller and I started to just find anything I could about sign language is like the 80s, like the, well, I guess by the time I started looking, it was like late eighties, early nineties when I was really like digging in and got there. But Coco is what got me started. She died last year. So sad broke my heart. No, no, it was at two years ago, two summers ago. Anyway, um, that's what got it started. And then from there it just grew and the more I learned, the more passionate I became about it. Um, all right. Thanks cat. Well, you're already gone now. Sorry. Oh, good. Good. All right. Oh, that's funny.

01:03:58 Yeah.

01:03:59 Smartest one in her. Okay, cool. All right. What does the SDN for? Oh, the S stands for Shelly. Um, that's one of my nickname, Shelly. Um, one of my nicknames Shelly. So you can call me Shelly if you want to. I'll answer new moon.

01:04:21 No, not that

01:04:25 it's like this smoky woodsy, but it's got like a nice bright bright note. I like it. It's really nice. Oh, Rosemary, I do live Rosemary. Um, all right, let's see.

01:04:40 Yeah.

01:04:42 Oh cool. Look at you guys talking about sense and stuff. I love it. The grammar and learning salon a month has bite sized pieces of intuitive grammar. Yeah. Yup. It's $5. You're right. Oh, okay. Cool. Thanks Sherry. I'm glad I was able to help you. I mean you're welcome Sherry. I'm glad I was able to help you, girl Vickers. I'm thinking there's happening. All these comments are like, from what I've missed. So I was telling you online,

01:05:09 what does that mean?

01:05:12 Oh, do you have any advice for a general education teacher with a blind and deaf student? Okay. Yeah. Currently just doing finger spell on their hands with mine to expand their vocabulary. But I think she's getting bored and not stimulated enough and if she could push push further. Yes. Jay. That's awesome.

01:05:32 Um, the Oh a Shannon, it's the guy. Thanks Cathy. Cathy, uh, just answered your question. Perfect. So general education teacher with the deaf and blind student. Um, do they provide, does your school provide any interpreting for your student as a girl? Like do they should be providing an interpreter. That's like law number one. Um, but if you're wanting to interact with her yourself, um, then, um, then you can do that. So I would learn the signs that match your, um, your, what your, what you're teaching. So instead of working, you know, you can learn like basic conversational things like, Hey, how are you? And kinda chatting to her about things. But then I would learn signs that are specifically relevant to what you're, um, trying to teach. Um, and you know, I know you're signing into her hand, but so if you're signing you just, um, I'm, I don't know what I'm looking for.

01:06:41 I'm looking for a model, uh, when I was like, I can do it on my microphone, but then it would be muffled. I'll do it on a legacy user. So if like their hand, you know, you're signing, they would just put their hands over your hands, like just loosely. So they place their hands here and then you just sign like normal. Like you might go, you go a little slower. Um, but you, you still, if it's on your chest, you bring it to your chest. If it's on your head or your face and your nose, you still bring it with their hand to that because they need to feel where you're placing it. Um, so you would just sign as best as you can normally just with their hands on top. Um, and then the, she would sign to you and then you would just watch. You wouldn't have to put your hands on top. Um, but they can understand perfectly that way. So long as they've been taught, as long as she has been taught sign language and has been taught that. Um, and I would look into that. Um, but if you could give me a little bit more specific things. I know you're trying to teach her vocabulary or are you expanding your sign vocabulary or are you expanding or her like classroom vocabulary. Like, Oh, I'm teaching this sign in history class or whatever. Um, let's see.

01:08:01 Okay, cool. Why is there an issue with accuracy? Um, with, um, some of his signs are more, um, towards the English side, more CS of, he does a lot of initial signs, um, or he does like the older style signs, but he also could be doing some more location-based. I'm not sure where he's located. Um, I'm not saying all of his signs are inaccurate. I've found a lot of signs are inaccurate or not up to date, um, or just an old outdated version. But he's still a good guy and he's still, at least half of the signs are, are good. So I'm not poo-pooing on him at all. Um, I would just be careful. So if you see a sign him, I would look at a couple of other places to verify. So he just needs verification. Um, that's all. I mean. Okay.

01:09:04 Signing savvy and, no, the girl, she's pretty good. She's pretty good. Yeah. Um, hand speak is a woman. OK. whatever. The man not build Vickers. I'm talking about the other guy. He's always in a blue shirt or something. Life print. He's good. He's awesome. Um, yes. Signing savvy. I guess that must be him. I always get it mixed up cause I'm not, I'm not like watching what they're doing. I'm busy doing my own thing. Okay. Okay, cool. All right. Uh, that, sorry to confuse you guys. I said just look it up. T life print. Good. The girl good. The other man not as good. How's that?

01:10:00 We're doing okay. J we are doing a little mini unit using terrariums and learning the water cycle. Oh, preK level. She's only three. Oh, how adorable. So I'm trying to teach words like rain clouds of aberrations and more advanced ones to run it when the students seem to understand. Awesome. Okay. Um, Oh, how cute. And how cute. Okay. So are you like at an official school? She does know sign language, like mine bathroom. Just the little ones speak. Oh my gosh. Oh, little kids signing just kills me. It's so freaking adorable. I think that's good. So you're teaching her the sign or you just finger spelling it to her? Are you looking for like what some activities you could have her do or I'm are, you're having her interact with the water? Um, or like, um, there's a way you could get like steam where she could feel it to kind of associate it with clouds. Um, that kinda thing. If there's like hands on things that you can do as you introduce the signs, um, that would help as well. Um, Oh, a daycare. Okay, cool.

01:11:20 Okay. Yeah, just sign like normal. So if you're teaching her reign, put her hands on top of your hands, you can finger spell it rein and then put your hands on top of it. And in sign it with her feeling, you know, it's normal. You might have to get over that initial discomfort of, you know, I'm planting my hands here on my chest and this little girl is also touching my chest. Um, just remember, it's just communication. It's not inappropriateness. And if there's any other adults that are going to be like, what are you doing? Explain it to them and we can find some articles and you can point it out and be like, no, look, I'm, I'm a good guy. Um, yeah, definitely. Yeah. And you know, it's, you want them to be able to associate it as much as you can, associate the meaning with what's happening.

01:12:12 Um, and that will help with, you know, you're saying you're worried about her being bored on stuff. Um, and then, you know, feeling like she can be more involved. I'm trying to think of if there's any other things you could do. I'll have to think about it. I'm just thinking, give it, give that a try and get in touch with me and what we can talk, we can think about some more things. Um, but I would just learn the vocabulary. Um, and you know, you don't have to do extra work for, for that kind of thing. But the other, like you said, the other little kids will like it. Um, get creative and just, I mean, it's pre-K, just have fun. Right. All right. I've kept you guys a long time. I apologize. I know a lot of you guys left. That's okay. I can't wait to see you on Saturday. Nope. Saturday, Sunday. I gotta go to Jeff muck. Tell him he can read. Um, I'll see you guys on Sunday where we'll put all this together and talk about the order and all that. Goodness. Keep an eye on your inbox and if you don't see the email check sometime later tonight, give me about three hours to get all of that. Goodness. It takes a while. All right. Bye guys. You guys are the best.