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Welcome to the Deaf Community! See below for tips on learning ASL. Consider sharing those tips with the people in your social circle. The more people around you that learn to sign -- the more people you will be able to communicate with. ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ How to use ASL University to learn sign language for free: 1. Visit Lifeprint.com and become familiar with the ASL University website. 2. Bookmark the official ASLU UA-cam master playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PL6akqFwEeSpiLwRFA3ZvuOWMwPXwI7NqA.html 3. For quick reviews (to prevent memory extinction) bookmark the "Signs" channel playlist page: ua-cam.com/users/Lifeprint-signsplaylists 4. If you use a desktop or laptop computer you can look up signs using this page: www.lifeprint.com/search.htm 5. If you use a mobile device you can look up signs using this page: www.lifeprint.com/search/index.htm 6. If you can’t find a sign after using the search options at Lifeprint.com then consider applying to join the Lifeprint-ASLU Facebook group and asking your question there. See: facebook.com/groups/Lifeprint.ASLU/ 7. Go through the ASLU Lessons for free: www.lifeprint.com/asl101/lessons/lessons.htm Your comments, questions, or suggestions are always welcome. To contact Dr. Bill Vicars, see: www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/contact.htm Ways to support the ASL University channel: * Click the “thumb up” (like) icon on videos at UA-cam.com/billvicars * Click the “subscribe” button at UA-cam.com/billvicars (if you haven't done so yet) * Click the “Share” link and share the videos.

I absolutely still read these comments and will do so until I die and/or lose my eyesight (or enough braincells to read). Thanks for the nice comment. Best wishes in your studies! Warm regards, + Bill ________________________ How to use ASL University to learn sign language for free: 1. Visit Lifeprint.com and become familiar with the ASL University website. 2. Bookmark the official ASLU UA-cam master playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PL6akqFwEeSpiLwRFA3ZvuOWMwPXwI7NqA.html 3. For quick reviews (to prevent memory extinction) bookmark the "Signs" channel playlist page: ua-cam.com/users/Lifeprint-signsplaylists 4. If you use a desktop or laptop computer you can look up signs using this page: www.lifeprint.com/search.htm 5. If you use a mobile device you can look up signs using this page: www.lifeprint.com/search/index.htm 6. If you can’t find a sign after using the search options at Lifeprint.com then consider applying to join the Lifeprint-ASLU Facebook group and asking your question there. See: facebook.com/groups/Lifeprint.ASLU/ 7. Go through the ASLU Lessons for free: www.lifeprint.com/asl101/lessons/lessons.htm Your comments, questions, or suggestions are always welcome. To contact Dr. Bill Vicars, see: www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/contact.htm Ways to support the ASL University channel: * For donation options, see: www.Lifeprint.com/donate.htm * Click the “thumb up” (like) icon on videos at UA-cam.com/billvicars * Click the “subscribe” button at UA-cam.com/billvicars (if you haven't done so yet) * Click the “Share” link and share the videos. Thanks!

Never mind, found it in a comment from three years ago, it is "running".

I recommend going through the master playlist (see item two in the list below). Skip any videos that are repeats or that are of content that you are already familiar with. Then eventually the classifiers series will appear as part of that playlist. After a person has gone through Lessons 1 thru 60 -- at that point it isn't overly important what order they do the various "vocabulary expansion" videos. At my former day job the ASL program allowed students to take classifiers concurrently with ASL 3. However, I noticed some of the other faculty ended up focusing more on the advanced students in the course (to the detriment of some of the students who had only completed ASL 2). If you think about it though, classifiers (like most topics) shouldn't necessarily be lumped together and taught all in one dump. Rather, classifiers should be introduced "organically" throughout a progressive series of lessons. For example, a great time to introduce the aspect of CL:1 representing a person -- would be within the first few lessons along with the sign "meet." An instructor doesn't need to dive into a full blown discussion of classifiers -- and can instead just mention that a specified handshape (such as an upright "1" handshape) can be used to convey certain types of information (such as "meeting someone"). A good time to introduce the "flat hand" classifier might be when the instructor teaches the sign for "paper" and again when they teach "floor" and/or "shelf." The challenging aspect of such organic introduction to classifiers is that signs like "paper" and "shelf" are not classifiers but rather they are "signs" (that happen to be frozen classifiers). _____________________ How to use ASL University to learn sign language for free: 1. Visit Lifeprint.com and become familiar with the ASL University website. 2. Bookmark the official ASLU UA-cam master playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PL6akqFwEeSpiLwRFA3ZvuOWMwPXwI7NqA.html 3. For quick reviews (to prevent memory extinction) bookmark the "Signs" channel playlist page: ua-cam.com/users/Lifeprint-signsplaylists 4. If you use a desktop or laptop computer you can look up signs using this page: www.lifeprint.com/search.htm 5. If you use a mobile device you can look up signs using this page: www.lifeprint.com/search/index.htm 6. If you can’t find a sign after using the search options at Lifeprint.com then consider applying to join the Lifeprint-ASLU Facebook group and asking your question there. See: facebook.com/groups/Lifeprint.ASLU/ 7. Go through the ASLU Lessons for free: www.lifeprint.com/asl101/lessons/lessons.htm Your comments, questions, or suggestions are always welcome. To contact Dr. Bill Vicars, see: www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/contact.htm Ways to support the ASL University channel: * For donation options, see: www.Lifeprint.com/donate.htm * Click the “thumb up” (like) icon on videos at UA-cam.com/billvicars * Click the “subscribe” button at UA-cam.com/billvicars (if you haven't done so yet) * Click the “Share” link and share the videos. Thanks!

@@sign-language thank you so much Dr. Bill!!

Dr. Vicars has a tool for fingerspelling practice on his website. I try to practice at least 50 words each day. I love it!

​@@Maria-ix1up It's an awesome tool! Though, there's a Flemish version as well? I used it by accident once, and was perplexed. Still curious why it exists under Dr.Bill's domain.

@terminatort1014 That "Flemish" version of the Fingerspelling Practice Tool came into existence when a Flemish person asked me if they could use the tool using a list of Flemish words. I was just doing a favor for someone.

How to use ASL University to learn sign language for free: 1. Visit Lifeprint.com and become familiar with the ASL University website. 2. Bookmark the official ASLU UA-cam master playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PL6akqFwEeSpiLwRFA3ZvuOWMwPXwI7NqA.html 3. For quick reviews (to prevent memory extinction) bookmark the "Signs" channel playlist page: ua-cam.com/users/Lifeprint-signsplaylists 4. If you use a desktop or laptop computer you can look up signs using this page: www.lifeprint.com/search.htm 5. If you use a mobile device you can look up signs using this page: www.lifeprint.com/search/index.htm 6. If you can’t find a sign after using the search options at Lifeprint.com then consider applying to join the Lifeprint-ASLU Facebook group and asking your question there. See: facebook.com/groups/Lifeprint.ASLU/ 7. Go through the ASLU Lessons for free: www.lifeprint.com/asl101/lessons/lessons.htm

Thanks for commenting. The sign UA-cam has evolved and continues to evolve. Does the version you are seeing look like this? See: ua-cam.com/video/IudwA6TRdVI/v-deo.html Also, when referring to specific signs in one of the longer videos it helps to include a time code in 0:00 format. UA-cam converts that format into links directly to that time in the video and I can more easily see that to which you are referring (without having to watch the whole video). Instead of stating "palm faced outward" it might be good to describe which hand (dominant or non-dominant) faces "forward" (if you mean forward). Outward can be a bit ambiguous since it can also mean "outward to the side" as in "out to the side." Anyway, the other day I saw a skilled signer just jab a the thumb of a dominant-hand "Y" twice into the palm of a non-dominant flat hand (facing toward the dominant side with fingertips pointing up). Or in other words one or more Deaf have evolved the UA-cam sign beyond the circular movement to a slightly more specific touch-touch movement. Will be interesting to see how most people sign UA-cam ten years from now.

There is not a specific rule that can extend to easily cover all situations in which you can just shake your head to cause something to be negative. Instead a person ends up having to actually learn the language (thousands of signs) and be exposed to numerous language settings and situations and then eventually you "know" how to negate most common concepts. You can speed up that process a bit by reading about negation-related topics. www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/reversaloforientationfornegation.htm www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/n/negation.htm www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/negation.htm

Some people do sign opposite of their normal hand-dominance -- but I don't recommend it. I recommend you use your dominant hand when you see me using my right hand (because I'm right-hand dominant).

Verrrrrry interesting indeed.

You're very welcome! Thanks for the nice feedback.