Hi guys, Laura here. Now last week I did a
video on how you can't learn ASL from me.
Because ASL is different from English
and the reason why I put "ASL" in my
titles is because I want to
differentiate the signs that I'm
teaching you which are signs from the
ASL language from say BSL which is like
British sign language. So I know that a
lot of people come to my channel from
the UK and they they're confused because
they've learned it one way and then they
see it done on my channel a different
way so I do want to clarify that that's
why I put ASL in my titles. And I also
talked about how you need to learn ASL
from a Deaf person because who better to
learn ASL from?! And the other reason is
because it is a very complex language
that is not as simple as just learning
signs on your hands. You have to have
body gestures and sign positioning and
facial expressions and it's very very
involved it's not as simple as just
putting signs together. Now some of you
probably know this but some of you may not
ASL does not equal English so what I
mean by that is you cannot take ASL
signs and put them into an English
sentence because that would be "Signed
Exact English", which is not ASL. ASL is a
language on its own it has its own
grammar and syntax and sentence
structure I find a lot of the sentence
structure is similar to French language
and way way back in the day that's sort
of where ASL had its roots. So, please
don't assume that when you're learning
different signs from me that you can put
those signs into an English sentence and
be signing ASL. But I also think that
it's great that you're learning signs
and if you come across a Deaf person and
you sign those signs in an English
sentence format I'm
sure that they will be happy to help you
and appreciate that you're trying to
even converse with them
and I found nothing but really lovely
lovely people when I was learning how to
sign I signed ASL in English
sentence structure which is hard to
switch your brain and a lot of my Deaf
teachers and instructors and friends
helped me sort of switch that way of
thinking. So I just want you to
understand that when you come here you
can learn specific signs so if you're
confused about something or you want to
learn what the sign is for something
fantastic! But if you want to learn how
to use that sign in an ASL sentence then
you can visit some of the channels that
I recommended last week in the video
I'll put the same links in this
description as well. And if anybody else
has put other resources and other Deaf
channels that they'd like to watch I
will also include those in in the
description. So I just want to be clear
that I didn't want you guys to think
that you could learn specific individual
signs and put them into an English
sentence structure and think that it's ASL
As always guys please feel free to
ask me whatever questions you have I'm
happy to answer them. And be sure to
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when I post new videos. Thanks guys, and
have a great day, bye for now!
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