Amelia Takahashi I completely agree! I’m homeschooling my daughter so we are learning it together. I feel it’s so important to learn. It breaks my heart how separate the deaf community is. I hope to bridge this gap in my own little corner of the world
Everything's mandatory in schools now *eye roll* I got a sheet of "electives" my junior year, and 3/4 of them were pre-printed on, because they were anything but elective. I don't need French or gym as much as I'll need Python. I'm learning now, for my own reasons, but through my entire life I have never encountered anybody from the Deaf community. I have never needed ASL, any more than I have needed Mandarin. What I did need in high school, however, was to use that time to learn Spanish, as from the moment I got my first job to even this day, I frequently encounter Spanish speakers with no English. And it filled my foreign language requirement all the same Instead of making this and that mandatory because students might need it, why not have counselors sit down and help students decide for themselves what they need? (Sorry, just had a lengthy and arduous enrollment session where this happens frequently because people say 'this should be mandatory'. I had to take a semester of ballet ffs)
(Though my mom's an elementary education major, so I do see the benefits of learning it, I just also see the problems of adding things to a curriculum so full that children no longer get recess)
Hello I also am learning fingerspell and a few basic signs since next year I'm going to hs I'm going to take an so I absolutely love deaf culture switched at birth so I hope you do well learning!
nikoniko67834 one thing that REALY helped me with the alphabet is when you listen to a song, sign the first letter of every syllable. At first it is hard and you mess up, but after a while it is a piece of cake. Also instead of talking to myself like I normally did I would sign out the words I was thinking. Now I know the letters perfectly.
Mariza T hey good is take your hand put you nail NOT facing your chin and go down to your hand and then take your middle finger and tap both sides of your mouth and that's, Good luck
Literally thanking God that you say you are learning PSE not ASL. As a Child of Deaf Adults (CODA), I cringe when I see videos on UA-cam saying they are using ASL when they are using signed English or PSE. Also glad you're learning and I wish you a lot of luck on your journey to become an interpreter! :)
Adina Kasimoff, hi I'm also learning pse on my own. I'd love to try learn asl but I can't afford any classes at the university and I don't know of any classes outside of that. My questions to you/your parents: (1) do dead people find t disrespectful if someone tries to communicate with them using pse instead of asl, and (2) although different languages are they closed enough that they would understand most of what the other is trying to communicate? (If I'm learning pse and run into someone that uses asl, would it be too confusing to communicate with each other? Thanks!
No! It wouldn't be confusing at all. The main difference between PSE and ASL is the sentence structure. PSE isn't a language but ASL is because it has a grammar and structure. Deaf people appreciate any effort to for people to communicate with them in any form of sign language and chances are they will be more than happy to help you practice your skills!
Why is the difference between PSE and ASL? I don't mean to be offensive with my question. Iam learning MSL and as far I know we don't have any similar language perhaps the mayan Sing Language
Hi, I am shy lol but my name is Brooke also I am deaf too. I really like your video I just saw it today and I was like wow I didn't know anybody sign in this video. You are really good 🙌💖 nice meet you🙌
Thank you so much for explaining PSE!!! I'm an ASL major and people constantly have misconceptions about the differences. Best of luck as you continue. :)
+thedailysign hey so I was wondering if you could maybe do a video or maybe just explain how you've set up your regiment to learn PSE? I'm having a hard time learning where to start
This video is so encouraging! I have a deaf brother, we adopted him about 3 1/2- 4 years ago but I had already started learning ASL a year before that. I learned a lot pretty quickly though that’s because I have a gift of learning language. I also forget them pretty quickly. Anyway after a year of teaching my brother sign and it not working out well we decided to go the oral method. That worked really well for him but because of that I wasn’t signing all the time and lost a lot of the language so I started watching videos and such. Now I am completely relearning the language again to have a better understanding of it and it’s a struggle even though I had already learned it. Sooo yeah. My point is, keep going even if it’s hard, it is difficult but there is a reward at the end!
i just found your channel today!! whenever i meet someone who signs, deaf or hearing (I'm hearing), i always get so excited to share my passion with someone! I've also been learning PSE for 3 years by self teaching through songs and the internet:) anyways, love your videos!
The first time I watched this I was starting out learning and I couldn’t understand the signing so I just listened to you...........about a year or year and a half later I can now watch it with the volume off and know what you’re saying lol
I'm almost fluent in ASL, and I'm so glad there's so many people out there who love community enough to learn something so specific and beautiful, just to help others. So keep doing what your doing💕
I'm taking my second year of an ASL class and the grammar and syntax is difficult for me to learn and use in conversations but PSE is so much easier for me since I know and understand the signs but the syntax is what messes me up. PSE is a lot easier for me to conversate with but knowing ASL is still very useful, thank you for making these videos!
I'm learning the dollhouse sign language. its hard but now I know it. I now more words now. in some normal confersations I use some of the sign. people copie them and it's so fun to watch.
Also if you go into a deaf community some deaf people may find that PSE is disrespectful and most won't understand because PSE is just signed English and ASL is not English. They are a completely different language. The sentence structure is verrryyyy different. Its important to learn the culture and how deaf people feel towards the hearing and such.
did you watch the video? She explains she cannot learn ASL as there is no classes available close to her, i'm sure if she explained to the deaf community she is limited to only learning PSE and will be going to collage to learn ASL they would understand, and respect her for making the effort.
oh no! I didn't mean that in a rude way at all!! So sorry if that came off that way! I was just explaining to some people the case of what deaf people think. I'm not saying that its horrible to learn PSE at all! Its actually a great way to start off before learning ASL structure. I'm sorry I didn't seem to be clear, I didn't mean to come off rude. I love her and her videos! I mean no disrespect!
Honestly, if you are hearing and let a Deaf person know you are learning their language, he will more than happy to help you along. I have taken ASL courses with Deaf peers and they have always been helpful and gracious with the mistakes and trying to learn. They understand it's different from spoken English and will be able to understand PSE too.
I've been learning sign language for a year and a half and I agree signing to music helps so much. I'm getting my boyfriend into it also and I love seeing him improve. It is such an important language that not enough people know. You're beautiful dear.
Im in the process of learning to sign also. I love the language its so beautiful to watch and I want my son to know it. I wish that all sign language was the same and everyone ever knew it so no matter what spoken language we could all communicate
When i was in high school we had the option of taking a foreign language, i took ASL for just under 2 years was pretty good at it but it got hard and i lost my motivation and dropped the class, now i am SERIOUSLY regretting my decision when i was younger. I am in a class now and today i taught them some BASICS of ASL (not PSE) and they seemed to really enjoy it! I actually used a few music videos that were interpreted to show them how IMPORTANT facial expression is when signing to a deaf person. All and all i think it went well and I, when i move back to the USA, am looking at going back into ASL :) Keep up the great work on your videos, you are amazing and give so much inspiration!
She has lifeprint as a resource and that source also has the basics of ASL and helps you with learning the proper grammar for ASL and the differences between PSE which is basically signed English where as ASL doesn't use article words and like being verbs I believe. I'm still learning to and it's a great source to learn from. I've taken and actual ASL class through my hospital and the signs my teacher used or her and her friends within the deaf community preferred to use are the same as the ones lifeprint uses.
+Dannielle Cousin I agree, lifeprint teaches ASL, and it's really a great resource for learning ASL grammar and syntax. I think the hard thing for most hearing people to accept about ASL, myself included, is that we're used to being taught the rules to a language. Think back to English classes you're had, you're always taught rules and how the words work together. Deaf culture doesn't often do that. Yes in classes you will be taught rules, but not like in English. It's not as cut and dry, so the best way to learn it is to watch people use it and interact with the Deaf culture. Even though lifeprint doesn't really teach ASL grammar like we're used to in English class you will pick up the grammar from watching the videos. I think it's amazing! I love lifeprint!
I love that you show the friendly I LOVE YOU at the end of each video. You are a very special person and are very blessed. I am sure some would call you an Angel. Set goals and believe you can achieve them. Wishing you the best out of life!
These are the kind of UA-cam channels that are so incredible deserve so much recognition. Please don’t stop UA-cam, I truly believe you can make a big impact in the world by spreading this message and using music to help you. Please continue.
she might but it's a pretty basic sing to sign, because it really slow and repetitive, I do it in ASL. She might do it but it would be an easy thing for her
Your are doing a fantastic job! I wish I could have a student like you in my ASL class! I only noticed 2 things... 1) watch that your signing with your dominant hand. I noticed quite a bit of switching back and forth between forming the signs with your dominant and non-dominant hand. FIx it now before you enter an interpreter program :) 2) you signed "weird" for force, easy mistake! force should be made with your dominant hand and cross the back of your non-dominant hand, thinking of holding the back of someone's neck and forcing their head down. Weird is the same hand shape just goes across your face! Keep it up and best of luck to you as you continue on your ASL journey!! - an ASL teacher
+KHS ASL thanks so much! And agh I know it's a problem I have, there are just a few certain signs I do that with, and sadly they're very common signs hahaha. And also thanks for the correction!
Really like seeing other people putting their learning process on UA-cam! I think that people really enjoy seeing others make themselves better. I've been learning a new skill every month and making videos about it for the whole year and it is a really rewarding journey. I may have to add sign language to the list, though I bet it would take longer than a month!
I'm in ASL through my online high school this year for senior year finally but I've been watching your videos forever like two years I've been watching music videos on sign language. It's fun to see how everyone interprets a song differently. However, you are awesome! Good job!
Yea you correct my grandma was deaf when she was 8 years old and until she passed away i learned the old style sign language because of my grandma you are doing great i was inpressed when i watched one of your vedios
im deaf in my leaft ear i was born completely deaf i got my hearing when i was 18 months old and ive been teaching my self for a couple months ilove your videos but anyway i was woundering if you could pain by three days grace perfect by pink plz thx😊
I'm trying to learn asl because after watching switched at birth it really inspired me. I've been working really hard to learn it but its so difficult and I dont know anyone that is deaf. so is it worth it??
I started out with switched at birth (TV show that includes sign language) and online, then I made a deaf friend and he teaches me almost everyday at lunchtime. He has really helped and I can hold a conversation. I don't know everything, but I am making progress YOU HAVE ALSO HELPED ME, THANK YOU
I agree with the whole music thing. I'd like to request a song that you probably know. The End of All Things by Panic! At The Disco. It's slow and there aren't a lot of words.
Just a suggestion but you can check out Bill Vicars videos on UA-cam and they are really helpful when learning ASL ☺️ I'm also self learning with no classes near me so yeah. Hope it helps ☺️
I think your videos help to... cause when we watch your videos and you use the same signs over again like class and music, it may stick in our heads (at least it does for me)
I started teaching the basics to my daughter as she's a baby and baby sign language helps you communicate with your child, and I started loving it and will continue to teach her sign language to later have her be able to communicate with anyone who doesn't have the ability to speak or hear. I love that I understand and can follow parts here and there of this video by reading your hands. 😊🙂
Hi! I am re-learning sign language. I never took any "formal" classes on learning sign language I just learned from the people who were deaf that taught me how to talk(?) to them, and now, like you I am teaching myself thru internet videos. Let me just say that I think you have done an amazing job with your videos. Your voice and signing is easy to listen to and watch. It all makes sense and is easy to understand. Sometimes signing is hard to watch because it goes so fast. You have done great and I just wanted to also thank you for taking your time to make these videos.. they take time and patience--especially being outdoors. :) I encourage to you keep up with your work- maybe you can go on to teach classes on signing. :)
She is literally my favorite UA-camr. I love her videos and I love her style and everything. I really wanna be as good as she is with sign some day and I feel like she is really helpful. ☺️
She answered the "how" but not really the "why", except for saying broadly that it was important for all to communicate both hearing impaired and hearing. But still curious why she became interested on a personal level 3 years ago? For instance, does she have a family member or friend who is hearing impaired who she wanted to communicate with? Where did the desire come from?
I really want to study sign language when I'm in Uni and for me, I didn't have any contact with hearing impaired before.... Yeah before what? Before I read the book "Of Sound Mind" by Jean Ferris. It's a fictional story but it has a lot of powerful statements about being hearing impaired and about signing. There's also a very interesting foreword. It just really got me interested in the whole signing community. I'm also really interested in languages(mostly spoken) and their origins. So I'd be happy to find out about sign languages and their existence because they are just so different from any language I've studied so far.
It's also great for talking in Church, when someone's sleeping, to someone who is in the room with you while you're on the phone (the person on the other side of the line won't hear you signing to the person in the room), and for talking along long distances without yelling. I find that I use it when I'm too sad to talk or when I'm really tired at night. In a lot of situations, ASL is a ton more expressive than English, such as describing people or places. There are some things you just can't translate from Sign Language to English without losing a lot of the meaning.
I know this post is super old, just wanted to let ya know it's preferred to be said "Deaf or hard of hearing." Hearing impaired is seen as a disabling and handicap term 😄
you are such an inspiration I started to learn sign language just for fun a few months ago. you made me really believe I could do it plus I wanted to be an interpreter when I was younger and here is my chance. I found your UA-cam by accident a couple of months ago and its been really cool to watch you sign. Thanks, you also helped me with some stress. Thanks Love you!
are asl and pse signs the same though? so would learning pse make learning asl in the future easier? is the structure of the sentences the only difference?
spooky jim christmas same signs but different sentence structure. PSE has the same sentence structure as English and ASL has a completely different sentence structure
Hello! I am an ASL tutor. The signs are the same, yes. The only thing is you will have a lot to relearn. If you want to one day really communicate with Deaf in their American Sign Language, your sentence structure (syntax) will substantially change and therefore if you learn the signs I say just learn it to ASL grammar while you're at it and then when you meet Def people you'll be able to understand them.
Libby I think you are inspiring...what you do isn't "crap." It's just different than ASL. And it's cool that you are aware of that and humble as you learn. Kepp up the good work and I hope that when you take ASL interpreting courses that it goes well for you!
But being as that she doesn't really know yet or grasp the difference, the correct approach in my opinion is not to confront her rudely. But to see her heart is to learn. As in any way to correct someone you do it respectfully so that they listen and are more apt to sincerely hear what you have to say. Again, these are my opinions as a Communications major...people respond and learn to change better when confronted with genuine concern for help and not solely to condemn and rebuke.
are the signs in pse and asl the same because I already know a bunch of asl sings but want to learn pse instead bc I don't like the asl sytantis (sorry about spelling)
weirddragon 202 Hi, just wanted to give you an example. Signing Exact English (SEE--not a language): I am going to the store today (signed word-for-word). Pidgin Sign English (PSE--not a language): I go store today (basically leaves out words like to, the, a, an, etc). American Sign Language (ASL--an actual language like Spanish or French and has its own structure and syntax): TODAY STORE I GO. There are signs that we would use in ASL that definitely would not be used if you were signing PSE....ASL uses classifiers such as your index finger to represent a person or the '3' hand to represent a car and so on). Hope this helps.
I got into signing when I watched Switched at Birth. I am interested in ASL, (or just any sign.). But witch one do you think is better? spreadthesign or aslpro?
I want to thank you for this video .I understand that asl and maybe all the others don't like us to talk and sign .I like it it helps me at this point and anything that helps why not utilize it or at least have all the knowledge you can get. Thank you.
You are so right about more people needing to know sign language so that it will break down the barriers of communication between the deaf and hard of hearing and the hearing. I'm deaf and my mom, older brother, and one of my daughters all have hearing loss from hereditary progressive nerve deafness. My mom and brother are deaf but have the cochlear implant, I am deaf but do not have the cochlear, and my daughter has severe/profound hearing loss and wears hearing aids. As it is progressive loss, she too will be deaf one day, as it happened with me, my mom and brother. The funny thing is, no one in my family knows or uses sign language. My mom is a pro lip reader, so I grew up never learning to sign. Now, I wish I knew how to sign and had taught my daughter as she was growing up. She's now 17 and wears two hearing aids. I wish her and I could sign to each other. So, you make me want to learn! I thank you for that. Awesome video and message!!
Hey Libbey Very cool on every videos bt u r in expert/pro in asl... I couldn't understand some of them... So pls enable to cc where ppl can understand relating to signing language
I'm glad all of your answers are music. I have tried learning sign language before, but got too busy and lost interest. I am teaching myself with your videos and video dictionaries online. I am slowly but surely going deaf, so learning sign language is starting to become a top priority. Thank you for all of your help and keep posting videos! ❤
Caitlyn Listz That's my brother's case too! He's the reason I'm trying to learn ASL. He's learning that too, but I'm actually debating between PSE and ASL. Do you have any advice I could use?
I like pse more because the grammatical structure is more natural (i don't know how else to describe it). I feel like I understand sign language and learn faster with pse. I'm also learning mostly from Libbey's music videos. If you do that too, don't focus on just one video. I picked up more common words by going through all of the videos.
Glad to see you learning sign. I think more people would benefit from learning it as a foreign language. Make sure you remember your facial expressions! Facial expression is vital in all of sign. It can change the meaning of a sentence entirely. Good luck and keep up the practice. There are many many apps, and so many resources. Pse is good to have because it follows our conversations patterns. Also watch Deaf.tv to build your receptive skills too! I teach asl as well as I am a professional interpreter! ILY
My boyfriend has a cousin that's deaf. And because of her I really really wanted to learn ASL/PSE for her. And now I can communicate with her easier with sign language. And one time I had an encounter with a guy that I didn't know he was hard of hearing sooo ASL and PSE really helped me a lot :)
I'm learning SEE as a part of my college program, but I'm expanding the signs I know by watching your videos and signing to music :) I learned all of Love Yourself from you and I am now working on translating other songs by myself. So I wanted to say thank you since your videos help me a ton and will probably keep helping me since I'm still learning!
I have this app called the ASL app on my iPhone and iPad that really helped me a lot and your videos helped me too.The App might only work on Apple electronics. But idk,if you want to know it is called The ASL app and there is a second one,it is called sign school.Sign school is my favorite it is asl and it lets you look up words that you might not know and it teaches you letters and numbers and topic sentences. I love it.
I am so excited to see some businesses teaching their people signing! Some Starbucks, and a bank was advertising it too. Yay! Thanks for the great vid!
Right on. I literally was just thinking how I miss learning sign language, but that what always through me off was how it doesn't use the syntax in which we speak. It was not impossible, but more difficult. I did ASL in high school and college for the language requirement. I never heard of this before and so glad i found this video. I will definitely check it out.
One summer my friends and i learned sign language so when we talked our parents would not know what we were talking about. I still know how to sign 27 years later.
I'm losing my hearing. I was concerned with knowing ASL, you know, and that breakdown between deaf and hearing. You give me hope. I'm vlogging my journey to learning ASL and find that I sometimes switch into PSE. It's an easy mistake since I love the written word, in English. I'm still only 2 months into learning, but making a video every night really helps keep me thinking about ASL. I just jot down thoughts on my day and tell about my day in ASL. Then I watch it as I add CC. It reinforces the signs and I'm remembering faster and more often. Thanks for sharing your journey with the world! Best of luck!
I first heard of ASL last year when I read about the show 'Switched at Birth' and I recently started watching it and I'm trying to pick up signs for greeting and small talk, I really enjoy it and good on you for learning, hopefully I will too :)
Thank you so much for sharing! I have been trying to wrack my brains how to start using what I am learning in my online ASL courses. I don't think I know enough yet to try doing songs, but that is a great idea once I know more!
Thank you so much for posting this. I've been trying to learn and I stopped for a while and I just decided to pick it up again and I've been getting mad at myself for not remembering basic things like the ABC's. You're amazing.
I'm deaf and understood this!
+Chandler Dodson well awesome(:
Chandler Dodson ♥️
Chandler Dodson 💪❤
Chandler Dodson :)
Chandler Dodson it is my mom understand it
i honestly thing that it should be mandatory to have sign language in schools. like you have to have that as a choice to learn to graduate.
i think so too
Amelia Takahashi agree
Amelia Takahashi I completely agree! I’m homeschooling my daughter so we are learning it together. I feel it’s so important to learn. It breaks my heart how separate the deaf community is. I hope to bridge this gap in my own little corner of the world
Everything's mandatory in schools now *eye roll* I got a sheet of "electives" my junior year, and 3/4 of them were pre-printed on, because they were anything but elective. I don't need French or gym as much as I'll need Python.
I'm learning now, for my own reasons, but through my entire life I have never encountered anybody from the Deaf community. I have never needed ASL, any more than I have needed Mandarin. What I did need in high school, however, was to use that time to learn Spanish, as from the moment I got my first job to even this day, I frequently encounter Spanish speakers with no English. And it filled my foreign language requirement all the same Instead of making this and that mandatory because students might need it, why not have counselors sit down and help students decide for themselves what they need?
(Sorry, just had a lengthy and arduous enrollment session where this happens frequently because people say 'this should be mandatory'. I had to take a semester of ballet ffs)
(Though my mom's an elementary education major, so I do see the benefits of learning it, I just also see the problems of adding things to a curriculum so full that children no longer get recess)
“iM nOt fLuEnt” girl you’re nearly better than my deaf cousin
Omg lmfaooooo 😂😂😂😂💀
HAHAHAHAHA
anna kelly 😂
I just started learning ASL alphabet. Wish me luck xD
Hello I also am learning fingerspell and a few basic signs since next year I'm going to hs I'm going to take an so I absolutely love deaf culture switched at birth so I hope you do well learning!
nikoniko67834 cool
i love switches at birth its amazing
ellhnas?
nikoniko67834 one thing that REALY helped me with the alphabet is when you listen to a song, sign the first letter of every syllable. At first it is hard and you mess up, but after a while it is a piece of cake. Also instead of talking to myself like I normally did I would sign out the words I was thinking. Now I know the letters perfectly.
I know absolutely nothing in sign language but I learned the word 'learn' from this video :D
Mariza T hey good is take your hand put you nail NOT facing your chin and go down to your hand and then take your middle finger and tap both sides of your mouth and that's, Good luck
Bestic 24 thanks!
Mariza T same here for me 😅
Me too man. You beat me to it. I was about to say that haha
😂😂
you should teach us when you do it like the basics
Yaaaassss please do
yea
disgirl101 Yes! 100% agree.
disgirl101 hey if you learn finger spelling your good you can talk and spell all words
Bestic 24 but that's a looootttttt of finger spelling
I agree saying that music can help you learn things, still have a math song stuck in my head for six years
+Mandogy hahaha oh gosh
+Mandogy Your picture is entertaining and funny. :)
+Mandogy SAAMMEEE
yeah that is how i remember stuff for tests
+Adriana Demitrio same 😸
Literally thanking God that you say you are learning PSE not ASL. As a Child of Deaf Adults (CODA), I cringe when I see videos on UA-cam saying they are using ASL when they are using signed English or PSE.
Also glad you're learning and I wish you a lot of luck on your journey to become an interpreter! :)
Adina Kasimoff I'm a CODA as well!! sadly, not one who knows legit ASL though.
Adina Kasimoff, hi I'm also learning pse on my own. I'd love to try learn asl but I can't afford any classes at the university and I don't know of any classes outside of that. My questions to you/your parents: (1) do dead people find t disrespectful if someone tries to communicate with them using pse instead of asl, and (2) although different languages are they closed enough that they would understand most of what the other is trying to communicate? (If I'm learning pse and run into someone that uses asl, would it be too confusing to communicate with each other?
Thanks!
No! It wouldn't be confusing at all. The main difference between PSE and ASL is the sentence structure. PSE isn't a language but ASL is because it has a grammar and structure. Deaf people appreciate any effort to for people to communicate with them in any form of sign language and chances are they will be more than happy to help you practice your skills!
Adina Kasimoff o.o no snark about bayouma777's offending dead people? You are strong, I thought it was too cute :) I love funny typos
Why is the difference between PSE and ASL? I don't mean to be offensive with my question. Iam learning MSL and as far I know we don't have any similar language perhaps the mayan Sing Language
I thought you were deaf this entire time just because of how well you can sign
Hi, I am shy lol but my name is Brooke also I am deaf too. I really like your video I just saw it today and I was like wow I didn't know anybody sign in this video. You are really good 🙌💖 nice meet you🙌
Heythere ImKiera
Omg Kiera, I've never met someone with my name spelled exactly the same way! Totally off topic but still cool
+ier rose (ierrose) My friend Kiera spella her name the same.
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Kaaayy how would she know if she can't hear her talk?😂
Thank you so much for explaining PSE!!! I'm an ASL major and people constantly have misconceptions about the differences. Best of luck as you continue. :)
+MeggsMcAugh thanks!
Could you do "Carry on my Wayward Son" and "How to Save a Life" please xx
Yasssss
yess supernatural🤘🏼 carry on my wayward son
+imamysticalunicorn lol I knew the song before spn 😂
Yas!
PLEASE CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SON
I definitely agree with your statement about breaking down the barriers between hoh, deaf and hearing people. really well said (and signed) haha
+bridget renee (:
+thedailysign hey so I was wondering if you could maybe do a video or maybe just explain how you've set up your regiment to learn PSE? I'm having a hard time learning where to start
thedailysign hi
This video is so encouraging! I have a deaf brother, we adopted him about 3 1/2- 4 years ago but I had already started learning ASL a year before that. I learned a lot pretty quickly though that’s because I have a gift of learning language. I also forget them pretty quickly. Anyway after a year of teaching my brother sign and it not working out well we decided to go the oral method. That worked really well for him but because of that I wasn’t signing all the time and lost a lot of the language so I started watching videos and such. Now I am completely relearning the language again to have a better understanding of it and it’s a struggle even though I had already learned it. Sooo yeah. My point is, keep going even if it’s hard, it is difficult but there is a reward at the end!
i learned stiches by shawn mendes for the first song and it tought me a lot of commen words
awesome!
i recommend mastering the english language before practicing ASL or PSE.
edit: this was a year ago and ew how rude
@Kayla McGowen omfg, i can't believe i said that
damn and that was only a year ago
@Kayla McGowen i can assure you, i have grown up since then. idek when i wrote that or when i watched this video.
I love how it says: "Stalk Me" in the description for all the social media links XD
ahah
thedailysign I can teach you how I have been training for 15 years
i just found your channel today!! whenever i meet someone who signs, deaf or hearing (I'm hearing), i always get so excited to share my passion with someone! I've also been learning PSE for 3 years by self teaching through songs and the internet:) anyways, love your videos!
+Smcouch14 awesome!!
The first time I watched this I was starting out learning and I couldn’t understand the signing so I just listened to you...........about a year or year and a half later I can now watch it with the volume off and know what you’re saying lol
Well done, you an inspiration, I'm learning Sasl, South African sign language
That’s awesome (:
I'm almost fluent in ASL, and I'm so glad there's so many people out there who love community enough to learn something so specific and beautiful, just to help others. So keep doing what your doing💕
+amani arellano that's great! And thanks(:
I am learning asl with Dr. Bill Vicars here on youtube.
Me too.
He's great
Same here :)
Same here too
SAMEEEEE
You are amazing I am learning sign language because of you😋
Maddie Huettner 2o
Thanks for your video! I'm an Italian polyglot and I find ASL really fascinating
+Marta Profice glad you like it
Thank you for sharing this! 🙏👍😊 Your very talented and I appreciate your skills! 🙏♥️
I'm taking my second year of an ASL class and the grammar and syntax is difficult for me to learn and use in conversations but PSE is so much easier for me since I know and understand the signs but the syntax is what messes me up. PSE is a lot easier for me to conversate with but knowing ASL is still very useful, thank you for making these videos!
I'm learning the dollhouse sign language. its hard but now I know it. I now more words now. in some normal confersations I use some of the sign. people copie them and it's so fun to watch.
it's awesome you're learning
Also if you go into a deaf community some deaf people may find that PSE is disrespectful and most won't understand because PSE is just signed English and ASL is not English. They are a completely different language. The sentence structure is verrryyyy different. Its important to learn the culture and how deaf people feel towards the hearing and such.
did you watch the video? She explains she cannot learn ASL as there is no classes available close to her, i'm sure if she explained to the deaf community she is limited to only learning PSE and will be going to collage to learn ASL they would understand, and respect her for making the effort.
oh no! I didn't mean that in a rude way at all!! So sorry if that came off that way! I was just explaining to some people the case of what deaf people think. I'm not saying that its horrible to learn PSE at all! Its actually a great way to start off before learning ASL structure. I'm sorry I didn't seem to be clear, I didn't mean to come off rude. I love her and her videos! I mean no disrespect!
don't stress I didn't think you were being rude, just wanted to clear up any confusion. All is well xx
Omg you people are so nice, like most people would go make a whole big deal about a confusion but you two are so sweet😂
Honestly, if you are hearing and let a Deaf person know you are learning their language, he will more than happy to help you along. I have taken ASL courses with Deaf peers and they have always been helpful and gracious with the mistakes and trying to learn. They understand it's different from spoken English and will be able to understand PSE too.
Because I love deaf culture I am going to take ASL all four years in hs and college as long as I enjoy it so that k you for also motivating me
that's great!
I've been learning sign language for a year and a half and I agree signing to music helps so much. I'm getting my boyfriend into it also and I love seeing him improve. It is such an important language that not enough people know. You're beautiful dear.
I really appreciate your input! You gave really good suggestions on what might help me. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos.
Glad it helped!
people who are fluent with ASL are literal
heros.
you are my role models and I love your style you are soooo cool to me
+Angelia Teague aw thanks
So i guess I'm the only one watching this in 2020?
Nope
I've been learning since quarantine started😂
nope I am too
Ur not only won :):
Nope
Im in the process of learning to sign also. I love the language its so beautiful to watch and I want my son to know it. I wish that all sign language was the same and everyone ever knew it so no matter what spoken language we could all communicate
When i was in high school we had the option of taking a foreign language, i took ASL for just under 2 years was pretty good at it but it got hard and i lost my motivation and dropped the class, now i am SERIOUSLY regretting my decision when i was younger. I am in a class now and today i taught them some BASICS of ASL (not PSE) and they seemed to really enjoy it! I actually used a few music videos that were interpreted to show them how IMPORTANT facial expression is when signing to a deaf person. All and all i think it went well and I, when i move back to the USA, am looking at going back into ASL :) Keep up the great work on your videos, you are amazing and give so much inspiration!
"Its not always fun because you wanna be good but then youre not good and it sucks " describes my whole freaking life
hahah
She has lifeprint as a resource and that source also has the basics of ASL and helps you with learning the proper grammar for ASL and the differences between PSE which is basically signed English where as ASL doesn't use article words and like being verbs I believe. I'm still learning to and it's a great source to learn from. I've taken and actual ASL class through my hospital and the signs my teacher used or her and her friends within the deaf community preferred to use are the same as the ones lifeprint uses.
+Dannielle Cousin I agree, lifeprint teaches ASL, and it's really a great resource for learning ASL grammar and syntax. I think the hard thing for most hearing people to accept about ASL, myself included, is that we're used to being taught the rules to a language. Think back to English classes you're had, you're always taught rules and how the words work together. Deaf culture doesn't often do that. Yes in classes you will be taught rules, but not like in English. It's not as cut and dry, so the best way to learn it is to watch people use it and interact with the Deaf culture. Even though lifeprint doesn't really teach ASL grammar like we're used to in English class you will pick up the grammar from watching the videos. I think it's amazing! I love lifeprint!
I AM BEGGING YOU PLEASE DO FALLEN ANGELS BY BLACK VEIL BRIDES
+Tatyana Bates Or In The End!
or perfect weapon 😍
Or Goodbye Agony😍 Anything by them really
Knives and Pens too 😍😍
Yass bishh 😭
I love that you show the friendly I LOVE YOU at the end of each video. You are a very special person and are very blessed. I am sure some would call you an Angel. Set goals and believe you can achieve them. Wishing you the best out of life!
+Jackie Lacy thank you, you're so sweet(:
These are the kind of UA-cam channels that are so incredible deserve so much recognition. Please don’t stop UA-cam, I truly believe you can make a big impact in the world by spreading this message and using music to help you. Please continue.
Hey thanks so much
The first song I learned in ASL was Silent Night. The second one was Bring Him Home from Les Mis.
ah awesome
Can you PLEASE do "Lost Boy" by Ruth b
she might but it's a pretty basic sing to sign, because it really slow and repetitive, I do it in ASL. She might do it but it would be an easy thing for her
Marissa Nolte i mean, we still wanna see it. it doesn't really matter too much if it's easy for her. bc tge viewers may think it's hard
Kid Parker please
Your are doing a fantastic job! I wish I could have a student like you in my ASL class! I only noticed 2 things... 1) watch that your signing with your dominant hand. I noticed quite a bit of switching back and forth between forming the signs with your dominant and non-dominant hand. FIx it now before you enter an interpreter program :) 2) you signed "weird" for force, easy mistake! force should be made with your dominant hand and cross the back of your non-dominant hand, thinking of holding the back of someone's neck and forcing their head down. Weird is the same hand shape just goes across your face! Keep it up and best of luck to you as you continue on your ASL journey!! - an ASL teacher
+KHS ASL thanks so much! And agh I know it's a problem I have, there are just a few certain signs I do that with, and sadly they're very common signs hahaha. And also thanks for the correction!
Really like seeing other people putting their learning process on UA-cam! I think that people really enjoy seeing others make themselves better. I've been learning a new skill every month and making videos about it for the whole year and it is a really rewarding journey. I may have to add sign language to the list, though I bet it would take longer than a month!
I'm in ASL through my online high school this year for senior year finally but I've been watching your videos forever like two years I've been watching music videos on sign language. It's fun to see how everyone interprets a song differently. However, you are awesome! Good job!
oh that's so awesome! and thank you
i just find your video and this really inspire me to learn sign language
+Hanh Le Aw I'm glad!
With that voice I think u should sing too :3
+Braulio Mejia haha trust me, you don't
that comment scared her away-
I want to learn LSF (langue des signes française - french sign language) because I live in France so it's more useful but no one makes LSF lessons :(
il y a quelques cours sur UA-cam. Moi j'ai commencé comme ça avant de prendre des cours ! :)
saaameeee, I'm russian and there are no lessons or tutorials for russian sign language :(
James Arthur FR oui je sais je vien de Québec et be parle pas l'anglais allor j'ai commencer de apprendre lsf mais il y a pas des classes
Lea sunshine Même chose, je suis québécoise et je cherche des cours. En attendant j'apprends les signes américains....
Julianne Danse la chose est que je parle l'anglais très fluid ment allor j'ai huis commencer pse c'était plus facile a trouvé les classes
Yea you correct my grandma was deaf when she was 8 years old and until she passed away i learned the old style sign language because of my grandma you are doing great i was inpressed when i watched one of your vedios
Oh my God you are great. Thank you for making videos for deaf people and for showing them the beautiful sounds of this world
I'm in middle school and they do a signing club where u sign to music
That’s great
Awesome!
im deaf in my leaft ear i was born completely deaf i got my hearing when i was 18 months old and ive been teaching my self for a couple months ilove your videos but anyway i was woundering if you could pain by three days grace perfect by pink plz thx😊
I'm trying to learn asl because after watching switched at birth it really inspired me. I've been working really hard to learn it but its so difficult and I dont know anyone that is deaf. so is it worth it??
Greta Thane ME TOOO but I'm gonna learn PSE
Greta Thane omg saaaammmeee
This comment might as well have been written by me! For me it’s the exact same story!😄
Bro same tell me why I after I watched that show 😂
Can anyone explain the difference between ASL and PSE, thanks!
oh, i really adore you
you're absolutely right, we should learn it, because barriers isn't good thing
keep doing videos, it's amazing
I started out with switched at birth (TV show that includes sign language) and online, then I made a deaf friend and he teaches me almost everyday at lunchtime. He has really helped and I can hold a conversation. I don't know everything, but I am making progress YOU HAVE ALSO HELPED ME, THANK YOU
+Isabella Adams oh okay awesome(:
I agree with the whole music thing. I'd like to request a song that you probably know. The End of All Things by Panic! At The Disco. It's slow and there aren't a lot of words.
Just a suggestion but you can check out Bill Vicars videos on UA-cam and they are really helpful when learning ASL ☺️ I'm also self learning with no classes near me so yeah. Hope it helps ☺️
I think your videos help to... cause when we watch your videos and you use the same signs over again like class and music, it may stick in our heads (at least it does for me)
+Cool Outcast I'm glad you think so(:
I started teaching the basics to my daughter as she's a baby and baby sign language helps you communicate with your child, and I started loving it and will continue to teach her sign language to later have her be able to communicate with anyone who doesn't have the ability to speak or hear. I love that I understand and can follow parts here and there of this video by reading your hands. 😊🙂
Hi! I am re-learning sign language. I never took any "formal" classes on learning sign language I just learned from the people who were deaf that taught me how to talk(?) to them, and now, like you I am teaching myself thru internet videos. Let me just say that I think you have done an amazing job with your videos. Your voice and signing is easy to listen to and watch. It all makes sense and is easy to understand. Sometimes signing is hard to watch because it goes so fast. You have done great and I just wanted to also thank you for taking your time to make these videos.. they take time and patience--especially being outdoors. :) I encourage to you keep up with your work- maybe you can go on to teach classes on signing. :)
Do you ever thinked about Bangs? I think they Would look very Pretty on you
+okays tv haven't really, but thanks
I'VE BEEN PERSUADED TO LEARN PSE YA!!
+c.m wolf woo
Same but I am only 11
another question: should i not mix pse and asl or can i do so?
+Nisha Gokhale yeah don't mix them
I think you can learn them them both just don't mix them up
Why
@@sethdewayenkelton2247 because its s two different languages. u cant mix spanish and english it would be silly
She is literally my favorite UA-camr. I love her videos and I love her style and everything. I really wanna be as good as she is with sign some day and I feel like she is really helpful. ☺️
+Molly Berry aw thanks(:
I took 3 ASL classes in my high school. I congratulate you on learning PSE and your simcoming. (signing and talking)
She answered the "how" but not really the "why", except for saying broadly that it was important for all to communicate both hearing impaired and hearing. But still curious why she became interested on a personal level 3 years ago? For instance, does she have a family member or friend who is hearing impaired who she wanted to communicate with? Where did the desire come from?
I would love to know too !
I really want to study sign language when I'm in Uni and for me, I didn't have any contact with hearing impaired before.... Yeah before what? Before I read the book "Of Sound Mind" by Jean Ferris. It's a fictional story but it has a lot of powerful statements about being hearing impaired and about signing. There's also a very interesting foreword. It just really got me interested in the whole signing community. I'm also really interested in languages(mostly spoken) and their origins. So I'd be happy to find out about sign languages and their existence because they are just so different from any language I've studied so far.
It's also great for talking in Church, when someone's sleeping, to someone who is in the room with you while you're on the phone (the person on the other side of the line won't hear you signing to the person in the room), and for talking along long distances without yelling. I find that I use it when I'm too sad to talk or when I'm really tired at night.
In a lot of situations, ASL is a ton more expressive than English, such as describing people or places. There are some things you just can't translate from Sign Language to English without losing a lot of the meaning.
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I know this post is super old, just wanted to let ya know it's preferred to be said "Deaf or hard of hearing." Hearing impaired is seen as a disabling and handicap term 😄
PLEASE SIGN "FALLING IN THE BLACK" BY SKILLET please
if I may suggest, could you make a song from Pierce The Veil's new album?
My son was born profoundly deaf. I Found you searching some signs, and love the energy you bring to your channel. Subscribed 👌🏻
+Rev Head thanks so much!
+Rev Head it's so great you're learning(:
you are such an inspiration I started to learn sign language just for fun a few months ago. you made me really believe I could do it plus I wanted to be an interpreter when I was younger and here is my chance. I found your UA-cam by accident a couple of months ago and its been really cool to watch you sign. Thanks, you also helped me with some stress. Thanks Love you!
+Abi Baker hey it's so awesome you're learning! And I'm glad to hear that(:
are asl and pse signs the same though? so would learning pse make learning asl in the future easier? is the structure of the sentences the only difference?
spooky jim christmas same signs but different sentence structure. PSE has the same sentence structure as English and ASL has a completely different sentence structure
+spooky jim christmas yes exactly
Hello! I am an ASL tutor. The signs are the same, yes. The only thing is you will have a lot to relearn. If you want to one day really communicate with Deaf in their American Sign Language, your sentence structure (syntax) will substantially change and therefore if you learn the signs I say just learn it to ASL grammar while you're at it and then when you meet Def people you'll be able to understand them.
Libby I think you are inspiring...what you do isn't "crap." It's just different than ASL. And it's cool that you are aware of that and humble as you learn. Kepp up the good work and I hope that when you take ASL interpreting courses that it goes well for you!
But being as that she doesn't really know yet or grasp the difference, the correct approach in my opinion is not to confront her rudely. But to see her heart is to learn. As in any way to correct someone you do it respectfully so that they listen and are more apt to sincerely hear what you have to say. Again, these are my opinions as a Communications major...people respond and learn to change better when confronted with genuine concern for help and not solely to condemn and rebuke.
This is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😀😄😄😄😄😄😀😀😀😀😄😄😄
thank ya
notification squad 🌝
+9002nada ^_^
i have been learning ASL for 2 years and you were the person to really motivate me, thx XO
awesome!!
I was very skeptical about the video dictionaries but because of you I tried and I love it! I think they are super helpful!
are the signs in pse and asl the same because I already know a bunch of asl sings but want to learn pse instead bc I don't like the asl sytantis (sorry about spelling)
+weirddragon 202 yup they're the same
+thedailysign ok thanks
weirddragon 202 Hi, just wanted to give you an example. Signing Exact English (SEE--not a language): I am going to the store today (signed word-for-word). Pidgin Sign English (PSE--not a language): I go store today (basically leaves out words like to, the, a, an, etc). American Sign Language (ASL--an actual language like Spanish or French and has its own structure and syntax): TODAY STORE I GO. There are signs that we would use in ASL that definitely would not be used if you were signing PSE....ASL uses classifiers such as your index finger to represent a person or the '3' hand to represent a car and so on). Hope this helps.
I got into signing when I watched Switched at Birth. I am interested in ASL, (or just any sign.). But witch one do you think is better? spreadthesign or aslpro?
+Surrie oh awesome. And I wouldn't say one is better than the other
thedailysign ok 😌 your awesome!
+Surrie I think you should use spreadthesign since I using it (:
Do you have a name sign? Like one that an actual deaf person gave you?
She dosent
I want to thank you for this video .I understand that asl and maybe all the others don't like us to talk and sign .I like it it helps me at this point and anything that helps why not utilize it or at least have all the knowledge you can get. Thank you.
You are so right about more people needing to know sign language so that it will break down the barriers of communication between the deaf and hard of hearing and the hearing. I'm deaf and my mom, older brother, and one of my daughters all have hearing loss from hereditary progressive nerve deafness. My mom and brother are deaf but have the cochlear implant, I am deaf but do not have the cochlear, and my daughter has severe/profound hearing loss and wears hearing aids. As it is progressive loss, she too will be deaf one day, as it happened with me, my mom and brother. The funny thing is, no one in my family knows or uses sign language. My mom is a pro lip reader, so I grew up never learning to sign. Now, I wish I knew how to sign and had taught my daughter as she was growing up. She's now 17 and wears two hearing aids. I wish her and I could sign to each other. So, you make me want to learn! I thank you for that. Awesome video and message!!
+4 Teens and a Baby ah yeah I see! Well hey it's never too late to learn(:
What website can I go to to learn PSE? In the description I cannot tell which ones have PSE or ASL.
+Julia Maes PSE and ASL both use the same signs, the syntax is what's different
Oh okay TY! :D P.S. Love your channel!
Hey Libbey
Very cool on every videos bt u r in expert/pro in asl... I couldn't understand some of them... So pls enable to cc where ppl can understand relating to signing language
Collaaaaaab sometime...?
+Spade Ray ya sure
I'm glad all of your answers are music. I have tried learning sign language before, but got too busy and lost interest. I am teaching myself with your videos and video dictionaries online. I am slowly but surely going deaf, so learning sign language is starting to become a top priority. Thank you for all of your help and keep posting videos! ❤
Caitlyn Listz That's my brother's case too! He's the reason I'm trying to learn ASL. He's learning that too, but I'm actually debating between PSE and ASL. Do you have any advice I could use?
I like pse more because the grammatical structure is more natural (i don't know how else to describe it). I feel like I understand sign language and learn faster with pse. I'm also learning mostly from Libbey's music videos. If you do that too, don't focus on just one video. I picked up more common words by going through all of the videos.
Glad to see you learning sign. I think more people would benefit from learning it as a foreign language. Make sure you remember your facial expressions! Facial expression is vital in all of sign. It can change the meaning of a sentence entirely.
Good luck and keep up the practice. There are many many apps, and so many resources. Pse is good to have because it follows our conversations patterns. Also watch Deaf.tv to build your receptive skills too! I teach asl as well as I am a professional interpreter! ILY
all I knew is the alphabet in sigh language
better than nothing!
My boyfriend has a cousin that's deaf. And because of her I really really wanted to learn ASL/PSE for her. And now I can communicate with her easier with sign language. And one time I had an encounter with a guy that I didn't know he was hard of hearing sooo ASL and PSE really helped me a lot :)
+Nicole Guevara ohh I gotcha(:
My friends and I are learning sign language (asl) and I’m really excited! This video really encouraged me
thank you for putting the difference between the systems in this video. Like for real it's so frustrating when people don't so thank you so much.
+Caity Holbrook yeah I feel you
I'm learning SEE as a part of my college program, but I'm expanding the signs I know by watching your videos and signing to music :) I learned all of Love Yourself from you and I am now working on translating other songs by myself. So I wanted to say thank you since your videos help me a ton and will probably keep helping me since I'm still learning!
+Erin Hepburn oh okay that's awesome(:
I have this app called the ASL app on my iPhone and iPad that really helped me a lot and your videos helped me too.The App might only work on Apple electronics. But idk,if you want to know it is called The ASL app and there is a second one,it is called sign school.Sign school is my favorite it is asl and it lets you look up words that you might not know and it teaches you letters and numbers and topic sentences. I love it.
+Underthesea1030 ahh awesome
I am so excited to see some businesses teaching their people signing! Some Starbucks, and a bank was advertising it too. Yay! Thanks for the great vid!
Right on. I literally was just thinking how I miss learning sign language, but that what always through me off was how it doesn't use the syntax in which we speak. It was not impossible, but more difficult. I did ASL in high school and college for the language requirement. I never heard of this before and so glad i found this video. I will definitely check it out.
One summer my friends and i learned sign language so when we talked our parents would not know what we were talking about. I still know how to sign 27 years later.
I'm losing my hearing. I was concerned with knowing ASL, you know, and that breakdown between deaf and hearing. You give me hope. I'm vlogging my journey to learning ASL and find that I sometimes switch into PSE. It's an easy mistake since I love the written word, in English. I'm still only 2 months into learning, but making a video every night really helps keep me thinking about ASL. I just jot down thoughts on my day and tell about my day in ASL. Then I watch it as I add CC. It reinforces the signs and I'm remembering faster and more often. Thanks for sharing your journey with the world! Best of luck!
Thank you so much you have encouraged me . i am studying ASL in college
That’s great!
I use music to remember sign, and I started signing because of your cover of Pacify Her. Now I am learning a bunch of new songs, so thank you :)
I first heard of ASL last year when I read about the show 'Switched at Birth' and I recently started watching it and I'm trying to pick up signs for greeting and small talk, I really enjoy it and good on you for learning, hopefully I will too :)
+Stephanie Wheeler ah okay awesome
Thank you so much for sharing! I have been trying to wrack my brains how to start using what I am learning in my online ASL courses. I don't think I know enough yet to try doing songs, but that is a great idea once I know more!
Thank you so much for posting this. I've been trying to learn and I stopped for a while and I just decided to pick it up again and I've been getting mad at myself for not remembering basic things like the ABC's. You're amazing.
+Megan Lopez hey well it's awesome you want to learn