The Picture of Sound

thesedeafeyes:

Let’s start off with the basics! c:

1- Fingerspelling

Practice in a mirror. Make each letter, and study how it looks from the front and then the back. A good way to kill two birds with one stone: don’t learn A,B,C… learn a sentence like: ”The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” It has…

ewitty:

Are you an ASL or ITP student? Perhaps a newly minted interpreter?

Wonder why your eyes get so tired and burn so much at the end of the day or at the end of a ASL meeting?

Answer: White Muscle

Generally large, (powerful) muscle that is utilized SHORT TERM, e.g., leg muscles of a…

thatdeafdude:

From a recent Skype video chat from a friend of mine, Andrew mentioned he’d like to see ASL as a required language in schools all over the country. Hmmm. He got me thinking (and thinking is something I don’t do often — so pay attention, this is going to be good).

Now that I think about it, high schools offer a lot of foreign languages. Spanish, French, German, Russian, Latin — whoa, waitaminute. Latin? With all due respect to the classics, what use does the average high school student have for Latin?

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thatdeafdude:

From a recent Skype video chat from a friend of mine, Andrew mentioned he’d like to see ASL as a required language in schools all over the country. Hmmm. He got me thinking (and thinking is something I don’t do often — so pay attention, this is going to be good).

Now that I think about it, high schools offer a lot of foreign languages. Spanish, French, German, Russian, Latin — whoa, waitaminute. Latin? With all due respect to the classics, what use does the average high school student have for Latin?

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carlicaar:

This is my friend Princess Morris from my show choir in highschool, and she urgently needs a donor. She lives in Clarksville, TN., and if you’re 0+ and healthy you can save her life!

Please, even if you don’t live anywhere near here, pass this on!

thatdeafdude:

Step 1: Pick a song that is easy to sign (since you’re the beginners)

Step 2: Gloss the lyric

Step 3: Practice signing with very fluent signer

Step 4: Gather critiques

Step 5: Use those critiques to fix your mistakes

Step 6: Practice yourself ALONE until you’re ready to finalize.

Step 7: Show your finalized performance to fluent signer

Step 8: If the fluent signer says OK, then you’re on your own. But you have to understand that you will still get critiques.

(via thelegalizeddeafies)

tokioblue:

The difference between signing a song… and signing English…

thatdeafdude:

Step 1: Pick a song that is easy to sign (since you’re the beginners)

Step 2: Gloss the lyric

Step 3: Practice signing with very fluent signer

Step 4: Gather critiques

Step 5: Use those critiques to fix your mistakes

Step 6: Practice yourself ALONE until you’re ready to…

thelegalizeddeafies:

AOL got Marlee Matlin advocating for the Deaf… And in case if you haven’t notice. Tumblr got THE LEGALIZED DEAFIES advocating for the Deaf as well! 

(via thesedeafeyes)

carlicaar:

sincerelycolie:

thepictureofsound:

sincerelycolie:

This is the best video ever…… !

I fucking love the use of sign language in this video :D I’ve been learning ASL so it excited me!!! 

“Give me your hand (best song ever)” The Ready Set

I don’t like this video. The woman isn’t dancing to the beat, and I don’t think it is signed correctly. I also don’t think she is deaf, why can’t they hire deaf people to sign things correctly?

Thoughts?

I’ve been learning sign language for a few months now and I’ve learned that with music you don’t sign every word. She has interpreted the song lyrics in her own short sentences while dancing along with it. She is signing it correctly however. She does not need to be deaf to sign correctly. 

I have to disagree with you. Her signing is not correct, as an interpreting major I can promise you that. Many of her signs are incorrect in the sign language basics. Those being:

• Handshape
• NMB
• Location
• Movement
• Palm Orientation

You do not have to be Deaf to sign something correctly, that is true. But this is not correct ASL. 

In interpreting, you do not have to sign every word, that is generally SEE or Simcom. You sign the meaning of the phrase. She is not doing that.

I am not trying to be confrontational, but this is incorrect. People should not try to learn ASL from this video.

Additionally her first signs are CLOTHES (looks like swim) F BEST. HOPE IMPRESS I-LIKE THINK(signed incorrectly) LOOK OVER THERE. I HEARING YOU BEAUTIFUL EVERYDAY KNOW ONLY KNOW.