ASL Sentence Structure: Word Order in American Sign Language l ASL Lessons 

Wow i just love the way she explains everything

Oh my gosh I absolutely love this!! My buddy is def and I love talking to him in sign. I’m a very fast learner so when he teaches me and I make small talk with SL with him, he gets baffled lol

I want to be an interpreter when I'm older, (I was taking notes) thanks so much!! I'm looking into your classes

I wish I could see more of her in the frame. It's difficult when her hands are default out of view.

I was taught sentence structure by a good deaf instructor, but still I just could not get it by the end of the class. But to actually hear it explained in only ten minutes, I have complete understanding. Thank you sooooo much for such a simply and well explained lesson. Beautifully done!!

she talks so gently but in a somehow not condescending way, and she explains everything really well, which is honestly all i can ask for

during the ongoing quarantine and my asl teacher not finding a way to teach us sign language these videos are helping me much more than my asl books could ever teach me

I’m currently going deaf and this is super helpful. I’m new to learning but it’s necessary.

I am in love with this video! Thank you! -current ASL learner

Wow, this is really similar to some of the Asian languages structures, for me as a Chinese Malaysian, the structure is like Chinese and Malay combined, which is quite easy to grasp for me. You teach well. Keep up the good work!

This was really helpful, especially for someone who's just trying to learn ASL. Thank you!

Would loove to learn more about the more complex sentences bc in everyday conversation we don’t talk in simple sentences like “I like apples” etc so I love how you went into that a little 👍👍

For anyone who thinks like me: I’m using her example “I’m moving to a big city next year” Time, Topic, Comment. Next Year, City, Big, I’m moving. I think of it as Time, Topic, Comment, and Normal Time means time word Topic is what you’re talking about Comment is describing words Normal is the rest of the words that can be put in the sentence and exist in asl. It would still be the same in the end. Hope it helped? Note! I call it Normal because to me, they’re just normal words. So yeah, it’s just the way I think.

Her pace is perfect for my understanding. I love her teaching.

i really love thins, i am sometimes mute so im just learning how to communicate to others

I felt like back in high school they taught object subject verb. But I like this so much better because it’s easier to find what the time topic and comment is in a sentence! Great video! I’ve been wanting to re-learn ASL I miss signing!

I have watched 4 ASL videos and I have learned enough to hold a conversation with someone who is deaf. I am excited to keep learning. Your video's have helped me learn so much about sign language. My dad is 40% deaf in both ears and my strp mom has lost 80% of her hearing in both ears. With my dad losing his hearing I fear it is hereditary and I may lose mine as well. These videos are helping so much. Thank you.

Hi, I’m an ASL teacher and starting online learning due to the school closure, would you mind sharing what video editing software you use? I like this format!

Thank you so much for this!! This helped tremendously. I am learning ASL right now, with a Deaf teacher, and my hope is to be an interpreter. This really helped me understand the grammar structure better so I can practice at home. Thank you so much!

Wow! I've been trying to learn ASL for a long time. I pretty much had to resort to ESL because I couldn't ever make sense of the syntax. Finally, this video shows up in a search and explains the whole topic-comment stuff and forming sentences in a comprehensive way. Thanks a ton!

Only actually useful video I've encountered. We don't need thousands of vocabulary words if we don't know how to build sentences. Great work, Victoria!

So far it sounds easier than the language I've been learning for years now.

Forming sentences and maintaining conversations with deaf people is what I'm struggling with the most right now. I naturally want to retreat when I can't maintain a conversation in ASL. I'm working to push through that. Thank you for these videos!

ASL sentence structure Part 1: 0:22 ASL and English sentence structure differences English: Comment-Topic e.g. red ball ASL: Topic-Comment e.g. ball red Part 2: 1:06 How to form a sentence in ASL? ASL -> Time-Topic-Comment e.g. "I'm moving to a big city next year" ASL: Next year - city - big - I'm moving Part 3: 4:05 Pronouns in ASL Part 4: 4:54 Signing past and future tenses Part 5: 5:57 Asking questions in ASL Part 7 (*6): 7:09 Negation in ASL Negation = Showing the "no" or "negative" such as don't or not Part 8: 8:34 Other ways to form sentences in ASL Part 9: 10:04 Common mistakes

Phenomenal. This instructor is so clear and helpful.

How would I structure a question that doesn't necessarily have a question word (ie: Who, What, Where, Etc.), but more of a doing word (Can, Does, Would, Could, Should, Etc)? Like, I was thinking of something along the lines of "Does lipreading help you understand?" or "Should I sign slower?"

Just start your own RU-vid channel with ASL lessons. You explain ASL so well. 😚

This is absolutely amazing!! Thank you for all of your help!!

This has been so helpful!! Thank you for SPEAKING to us!!!

This helped me so much! Thank you! I am learning sign language during quarentene because I am bored, I also decided to be a teacher for the deaf when I am older

Thanks so much! I am planning to study ASL in LA this Winter and love your classes!

This is so cool. I'm a native English speaker but have studied Japanese for many years and see a fair bit of grammatical similarities. Sorta delightful.

You are the BEST ASL TEACHER ON RU-vid 👍🏼🥰🥰💋 PERIOD!!!!

Oh PLEASSEE make another video! you are an amazing teacher and you make it so much easier to learn Thank you so MUCHHH

Thank you so much for this. I am a level 4 ASL Student and this is one of the hardest concepts for me to remember, but this video helped a lot. Now to practice my facial expressions. New subscriber.

I just started my ASL class in college and watching your lessons is clarifies some things thanks

thank you so much! i was confused on how to make my sentences work and work correctly but you explained it perfectly!! i understand now!! thank you!!

I kinda of get the structure of ASL when I took Spanish for example when you say "where are you from" the wording is more like "from where are you". (De donde eres tu or usted) Ive literally watched maybe 30 mins total of different ASL videos and i can say a lot your beginner questions and other things but as it gets more proper and remembering nouns can be hard to remember. I had the same issue in Spanish class the books we had at a new chapter showed a scene and had all the nouns and arrows pointing at each object.. I dont know anyone who is deaf but I am genuinely interested in learning ASL.. There was a dude in my culinary class who had interpreters, would have been cool to know what i know now and practice with him so long as he was willing.. Seems like folks in the deaf community are always willing to help someone learn the language that doesnt know it.. When i worked at Home Depot here near Los Angeles I had alot of spanish speakung customers who ai wouod try and help.. I understand bits and pieces but instead of saying i dont speak Spanish i told them i speak a little and would try to help them .

This is such a well explained video!! I wanna learn ASL and this videos are helping me a lot

Thank you! As a deaf person at a deaf school in a deaf time, it's embarrassing to mess up my own language. I haven't had an ASL class for years

Thank you so much for this video, I’m studying to become an interpreter and sentence structure has always been the hardest for me

Your a great teacher, thank you so much!

Great video. Very helpful!!

thank you so much!!! This helps really much :D

Victoria is a great teacher!!!

just watching this trying to take notes but ill probably have to keep rewatching it to get everything down to give me something to go back to, these videos are helpful.

Victoria is the best ever. Amazing.

Thank you! it was very helpful.

I am not fully deaf but I do have significant hearing loss in both ears. I was accepted into a school for the hearing impaired but unfortunately they were shut down before I could attend. This was about 10 years ago. I have ALWAYS wanted to learn ASL. For myself, and for others. So, I’m finally trying to learn sign language on my own. Your videos have helped SO much. I’d love to see online classes.

Though I use Ghanaian Sign language, I still find your video very helpful. It is well explained. Thank you very much

Thank you for the video, a great refresher. for me. What about when you’re interpreting a lecture or speech ? I get thrown off in my word order and start pidgeon signing ( some ASL and English word order) what’s the beat way to try to avoid that and stay with ASL sentence structure throughout? Thank you in advance for addressing this

Does Victoria have any, more recent videos?? She's really good!! Great job explaining.

this is very helpful! I find there are a lot of similarities with the Mexican sign language, makes it easier to learn :)

Love it. Thank you. 🙏🙏

this is awesome! thanks for posting 😀

Please continue teaching this class.

If I wanted to sign the English phrase “I need to sleep”, how would I do this? What would be considered the “subject” and what would be the “comment”? Thanks a million! :)

When you are describing a noun (topic) with verbs and adjectives, does it matter if a verb comes before an adjective, or does the adjective always come first?

keep up the great work!

I really enjoyed this video.

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Thank you for the help!

I loved this vid and I hope to see more

I loved it and I would like to say that , you are very similar a Brazilian sing " Gabriela Rocha"

thank you thank you! I made a deaf friend at work, and I KNOW im signing in english, but absoulutely I need to take a step back and rework my sentence and translate it out better. She says she doesn't care too much about grammar, and just is fine with communicating, but I want to become better and sign at least a tiny bit fluently. (I know I mistaken plenty of signs, we work in a warehouse and i signed Doctor instead of Truck once, haha thankfully she has a lot of patience with me.) I'm making the effort to retake ASL classes because im rusty, I really love sign language it's just amazing

Thank you

omg, thanks so much! this is really amazing video

So very helpful Thank you

Very good and clear video, thanks! While reviewing it, I came up with two questions: why in the sentence "I’m moving to a big city next year" "city" is the topic, while in "I'm going to school" "I" is the topic? If we already have an adverb (time) stating when the action took place, do we need to sign "past" or "future"? I find it a bit confusing that the "past" or "future" signs are not at the beginning where the time complement usually is Thank you!

Awesome, thank you

U explain so well

What are YOUR questions about ASL sentence structure? Leave a comment and let us know!

This was a great video. Clear, concise, and covered enough to get a good start. Thanks!

Awesome class

This helped so much

Very informative video. Watching from London UK. Are there any similarities with ASL and BSL ?

Thank you!

Thxs for the tips this wil sure help others :D

You are great..... just a little slower..... thanks .....luv it....

she is the best ASL

Loved the video and subscribed ^_^ A few questions/concepts I am curious about: I was taught the Time-Topic-Comment structure, and that is what I use (as of now) when signing, but I've also heard that some signers use the structure Subject-Verb-Object (instead of Subject-Object-Verb). For instance: I EAT APPLE rather than APPLE I EAT, the latter using topicaization. Are either acceptable? I personally find the latter more natural (ASL-wise, not from English). Also, what do you do with a sentence that has a relative clause, when you are trying to gloss it in ASL? Example: "In an alleyway corner covered in cigarette smoke, something was hidden." (From a song I translated, that's why it's so descriptive.) I have attempted ^_^' DARK STREET CORNER CIGARETTE SMOKE, SOMETHING HIDE-in Again, loved this video, and I'm excited to brush up on my signing ^_^

I learned English. and my first language and English had totally opposite structure. For example, English goes Subject+Verb+Object and my language goes like ASL, so it took me so long time to learn English. and now I feel become comfortable with English, but the thing is, ASL structure is again making me reverse.....I will be quick to adjust this situation as my first language's structire is same as ASL. I just wanna know how English speaker feels about this structure.

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i love this video it was very helpfull

Thanks for helping me to learn A S L

Hi! You mentioned here that to sign "the apple in the kitchen" would be Kitchen first, how would you complete the rest of the sentence for that? Thank you

i think lerning sine is ganna be good for me cuz im dyslexic so i do alot backwords so speaking in sine should come natruly for the most part

I just saw the second Quiet Place movie, I've wanted go learn ASL for a while but now I actually have motivation to bc of the movie

Hi Victoria, I am student in CSUF. I would really like to learn sign language & be able to master it effectively. I am concerned in how many lessons and and min whether 25 or 45 min, as well as lessons be enough to learn the language extraordinaryly well? I am not deaf, I am just really interested in learning this life skill. I am also 21 years of age so I do intend to take this serious but enjoy learning it lol. Thank you!

Thanks.... I'm learning ASL please add more of your videos... Lol

Siempre. E querido aprender. Ablar con señas. Pero no abia encontrado. Un video. Tan explicado. Me impresionó la sencilles de las esplicaciones

great video

Hello, my boyfriends parents and most of his family are deaf and I’ve been learning sign for a couple years now. We don’t use this structure and I was curious so I asked my friend who is an interpreter in New York if she does, and she said she doesn’t. I was wondering if this structure is in certain areas or maybe more profession situations like school sign?

I did enjoy and I am learning to sign

I learned how to say (hi im grace im learning sign) Thx you so much your videos help me alot

So, I'm just curious, do question words always go at the end? What happens when the question word is being used in a sentence that isn't a question?

Keep teachong this language it is interesting.

This was so clear. Maybe next videos the speaker could be up higher so her signs aren't cut off?

Hi! I have a question about the location thing you were talking about. Earlier in the video you explained “I will go to school” with school at the end but then later on you put kitchen in the front of the sentence. Why is school not considered a location?