lol, at least your honest about your reason for learning haha. I'm glad you are finding the videos helpful. Let me know if you'd like to learn anything specific
Thanks! I found that when I was first learning the language, those differences really tripped me up. So I'd like to help others to be more prepared than I was 😅
What brought me here: 1.) 1st deaf person was hired at my workplace. I had motivation to ensure we could communicate. I had tried learning sign language before, but I had no one to practice with or for, and pain in my right hand from an old injury stopped my forward momentum. Now I'm learning as if I'm left-hand dominant. 2.) 2nd, 3rd, and 4th deaf persons were hired on at my workplace. So, yeah, sudden immersion. I appreciate tutorials for the hearing to learn sign by being able to hear you and not trying to both read what a sign is and trying to do the sign. I appreciate your mnemonic devices! I always had trouble remembering 6-9. I've got it now!
That’s great to hear, I’m glad that you are having a positive experience so far and that you are able to connect with those that are Deaf at your workplace, keep up the great work!
I am learning sign language because I think it’s a beautiful language. I love seeing the people at my church praise and worship God using signs. I hope soon I can worship God in ASL. Thank you so much for all your videos!!!!
I wanted to learn ASL because I've got a few deaf students in high school with me and I've always wanted to be someone to reach out to them and I couldn't before but now I can make some small talk :))
I got interested in asl since high school. but there was a young girl in my college class that was deaf the school provided a court reporter to take notes not a translators because there was not enough demand to hire one. But this girl couldn't read the short hand notes. So I decided to help and learn asl so I could translate so she could have a college degree. Now today she is my best friend. And I am teaching others about the deaf community.
What made me want to start learning sign language is that in my school there are people who are deaf/hard of hearing and I would like to contact them. Also I saw a TikTok of this girl doing sign language and that really caught my attention
Interestingly, in 2017 I was just curious & started learning ASL through a meetup group which I never finished. Fast forward to April 2023 a sinus infection rendered no hearing in my right ear. So ASL, ya got me!
Because my friend recently was diagnosed hard of hearing and I wanna learn how to communicate with her...plus I find the language very beautiful and unique...
I’m so glad you make these! I’ve had the strongest feeling for a long time that I should learn ASL, and I’m finally buckling down and doing it (beyond the alphabet, haha). Thank you for sharing your knowledge in such an accessible way!
I love these videos! In normal times, I work in a performing arts venue with a keen eye on accessibility and providing excellent customer service. When the local public library offered a twice-weekly virtual ASL course, I jumped on the opportunity to learn how to better communicate with my patrons (...when we get back to in-person performances). I live in Washington, DC, where Gallaudet University is located, and being able to sign will make me an all around better neighbor and community member. I have started using these ASL Basics videos to practice before and after class. They make such a difference. Thank you!
My reasons for learning ASL: I grew up watching Signing Time with Alex and Leah. When I was 9-10, my family would always sit in the front, near a deaf woman at church and I loved watching her interpreter, especially when we were singing because she was so expressive.☺ I have terrible reading comprehension and am a very tactile learner, so I think being able to sign what I'm reading will help with that.
I’ve always been interested in sign because of my work with special education. But I’m motivated to learn sign now because I recently had a baby! And I want to have new and fun ways to communicate with her!💕 your videos are so clear and easy to follow! Thank you!
That's great, we taught our daughter sign language from birth and it was amazing to be able to communicate with her when she was only a few months old, it really sped up her linguistic development too
i've wanted to learn sign language for a while and am finally starting! it always makes me feel bad whenever i have a customer come in who's hoh and i can't communicate easily so that's my main motivator at the moment thanks for making these videos!
As a thank you for providing these instructional videos, I wanted to answer your question. I learned the fingerspelling alphabet in elementary school and it always stuck with me. Now as a 33 year old I've fallen in love with a deaf girl who is amazing. It's interesting and disappointing how little discussion there is about deafness in mainstream culture. I think more people should learn ASL. It's easy and fun anyway
I find sign language a great way to express myself confidentially. I am not deaf, my my voice is real quiet (my PD, seems to have made my voice real hard to hear). So I feel this helps me a lot.
0:48 he shows number 21 0:55 he shows 22 and other multiples (33, 44, 55, etc all the way to 99) 1:19 he shows number 23 (wiggle middle finger) 1:37 he shows 24 (L and then 4) 1:58 number 25 (also wiggle middle finger) 2:08 numbers 26 - 29 (L shape and then 6, 7, 8, 9) 2:18 number 30 and also all the 10s (40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90) - just sign first digit and then 0 2:44 the rest of the numbers which are just the first then second digit (31, 32, 34, etc) 3:05 the formal way to sign 100 3:11 the shorthand way to sign 100
I love the Chris Gorges videos. Very educational. My 5 year old son was diagnosed with moderate to profound hearing loss. He has a speech therapist at his school that's been working with him and it's pretty fun being able to keep up with him in conversation also my other children have learned sign language as well!!!!!!
I was prompted to learn ASL because after a hearing test it was discovered that I have a significant hearing loss in my left ear. So I am preparing myself in case something happens to my right ear.
Going through all the numbers, no matter how boring, would have been helpful for retaining memory & for exercising the fingers. Imho. I still enjoyed the video & will replay it.
Thanks, if your ready for more advanced number signs we recently did a deep dive into the topic here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sms3-XUsmv0.html Currently we post a video every week, which at this time is about as many as we can do, but I do have about a 100 videos on the channel and have a lot more videos, workshops, and courses available to members here bit.ly/2YeqDqtbit.ly/2YeqDqt I’m glad that you are finding the videos helpful and let us know what you would like to learn next 🙂
Good question, typically the 20s would be signed as shown in the video, although I have seen some newer learners do that... even though it may be a little harder to memorize a few extra signs, I would recommend signing the 20s as shown in the video
Yeah, I know, I had a hard time learning that set of numbers too. You will see some people sign it the way you described it though, in fact Sign Duo shows a "hack" where you just sign one digit at a time until you get more comfortable learning the more specific signs
For 1-99, essentially that's correct, unless you do L-6 for 26 and so on. Also, sometimes numbers 1-5 will be turned inward (forgot to mention that in the video)
Hey chris, I did shared your vid. What tags are you using? ASL Lessons would be a good one. Also this title ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-owXsDIKq4lk.html and also you can try to out do 100 signs you need to know, also asl for beginners, easy asl, sign language made easy. Also include your channels name and your instagram name in the tags. Meta tags are great for google searches too and include them in Twitter with hashtags. I hope this helps. I learned sign language when I was 10. My mom said when we learned this language then God would send someone to use it and keep learning. I made 3 friends at summer camp who all signed and one was deaf. I was happy to be able to communicate with all of them. It is fun to sign at school too.
I am using some of those tags you mentioned in my metadata and I have been including my channel name too in the tags. I didn't realize before I got into RU-vid how much work and research goes on in the background. Seems you have a really good feel on how the back end of RU-vid works. Where did you learn how to do the metadata, tags, and stuff? I really appreciate the advice and thanks for sharing the video! I think that is great that you were able to communicate with those kids in summer camp, I'm sure you all becoming friends had a big impact on them.
@@ChrisGorges I loved the experiences growing up. I also used signed language in my hula dance too. I am learning to do the seo on RU-vid. I got etsy down or I should say better. If you have desktop check out searches on youtube for titles and how old it is and use their tags. Anything from 4 -6 years ago needs an update. Redo those titles into a "remake" with your own twist. See if your friends and family can watch your videos and leave comments. Add the vids to playlists. Also have then search for you too. All these are hot leads to get the algorithm to showcase your videos to prospective viewers.
Also I added a board to my pinterest account. If you are on pinterest I can add you as a collaborator. I get 8.8k views a month and lots of my shared pics and videos gets reposted.
