Fluency in Sign Language: How Long?! ┃ ASL Stew
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- I've been asked how long did it take for me to become fluent in sign language. How long will it take for you to become fluent in sign language?
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I'm a sophomore in high school in a community college level one sign language class and I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate these videos. A LOT of it I don't understand without hearing it but I try to mute it and think about what your saying and watch it over again to see if im right. Just wanted to say thanks for making videos! 😊
Destiny Cage That this great practice. I'm so glad my videos are helping. :)
Good video... and fluent in 10 years! I'm impressed! I know a lot of people who have tried to learn ASL for over 20 years and still struggle. I am so happy to see you accept criticism. So many friends and family I know give up learning when they have been criticized by a Deaf person. Look at it this way... I'm Deaf... I do have ability to speak, although not perfectly-- yet hearing people correct/criticize my speech all the time! Do I give up? No.... but I don't really have a choice because they've already given up learning ASL. Oh well!
Enjoy your videos! Good work!
+Mibby Love Viddies thank you so much! Yeah ofc I accept criticism because that is how you learn! Always trying to improve yourself no matter how "fluent" you are. Glad you like the videos.
Mibby Love Viddies Hi Mibby, Do you tutor?
I do this weird thing to study with videos like this where I pause the video after you finish your sentence and I take a minute to respond. I respond with things such as "yes, I totally understand" and that type of stuff. Your videos are so amazing and thank you sooo much!! xx
[Jill] That's neat, never heard of anyone doing that but makes total sense. Cool! Glad you like the videos. :)
When I first learned finger spelling, I practiced by finger spelling every word I saw in the ASL books but I started slow because of course, accuracy is far more important than speed. I am a very efficient finger and I am always learning new signs that I have never seen before. With hearing aids, I can listen to the songs on the radio and I can visualize the signs which means I am much farther along in ASL then I was years ago.
Megan Luck That's great! Yes it does take a lot of practice and yes accuracy is much better than being fast. I had practiced so much I was almost too fast at one point. No one understood me lol. I had to learn to slow it down a bit.
It took 10 years before I felt comfortable tackling a wide range of topics. However, like Jill said, there is always much more to learn. I saw a technique demonstrated recently that I never even knew existed! You never "arrive", but that makes it fun.
***** Yes you are always learning and that does make it more fun!
MANY MANY MANY YEARS !! I graduated from a terp program, tried to pass the written knowledge test, a few times, its REALLY costly, as u know, esp if u have to keep trying.
Jill godfrey Yes it is expensive ugh. I hope you pass it soon. Good luck.
Although not in my country's native sign language, this is absolutely what I have been looking for on youtube!!!!!!!! Your channel is inspiring and a blessing. As an aspiring interpreter, you've given me the motivation and encouragement I needed to continue and pursue this. Thank you from Australia!
UsedNMuse Well I'm happy to hear I can inspire someone from so far away lol. Good luck on your interpreting journey and let me know how it goes! :)
UsedNMuse Actually I'm in the same position... but from Portugal! Cheers to you all, this is really inspiring and motivational
+Jill Stewardson hi I just wanted to ask for your advice. The guy I like is deaf with a cochlear implant, and he can sign perfectly. He prefers talking, but I can't understand him when he talks. I know somewhere around 300 signs and phrases, and his teacher is teaching me asl. I feel bad when I ask him to constantly repeat himself. He'll say I got a new dog, but I would hear I goth a snew drog. Please help me!
I live in Australia too! I started learning auslan maybe a week ago.
Wow! You sign beautifully. I'm hoping to one day become an interpreter and my signing is soooo sloppy! I really need to work on that :p
Kyrie DERPDERPDERP Thank you! Just keep working at it. Everyone signs sloppy sometimes, but getting better just requires more practice. :)
How’s the progress?
How’s it going?
This video is so refreshing ! I've been in deep in the rabbit hole of BSL videos which I don't understand AT ALL lol Finally, something I can understand(even if it's not 100%, still better than 1% XD )
For someone watching this now. I’ve been signing 2 years 3 months. First year was covid so I truly was going 6 hours a day. I did BV 1-4 online before I got into ASL 3 and I did 1 and 2 in 12 weeks bc summer courses . I started with Deaf tutors twice a week ASL 3. There was probably a 6 month period where I wasn’t actively studying “life stuff” but I was still meeting with tutors. I was comfortable in conversation probably at 14 months. And now today all the Deaf news I understand, most ppl I have no problem understanding. I’ve never seen the language in 3D or gone to a Deaf event so I certainly have regional gaps. Like this morning I watched a Deaf women talking about her process with her hair and I had to watch it a few times bc I had never seen that discussed “highlights, dye, etc”. Do I feel I’m fluent? Probably not, I feel competent, I sign clear and I understand the majority. But I have gaps, and I struggle to understand some ppl but that’s okay. So you can do a lot in 2 years. But it’s important to understand the amount of hours in my 2 years might be someone else’s 4 years. Like she says in the video just don’t stop. I’m in an area with like 3 Deaf ppl and none of them sign and their children that did moved away. So I know once I find a Deaf community I can immerse with my gaps will fill in. Spoken language is way easier than ASL. Why? Bc when I’m reading a book in Spanish and I see a word I don’t know I can look it up right then. With ASL I see a sign I don’t know I have no way of looking it up, just have to hold it in my memory and hope to see it in another context or whatever. Either way. Good video, don’t quit, learn everyday, be brave meet tutors make mistakes etc.
Do you know at what level can someone be an interpreter? Like with what you know now, would you feel comfortable interpreting? I am a complete beginner and my end goal is to become fluent enough to become an interpreter, like she says in the video I never intend to stop learning, but this is something more concrete that I am aiming for.
Best and so descriptive post on this issue no one likes to answer this question and yes with Spanish it’s way more excess able with asl it’s like use it or loose it lol you did good it inspires me it truly is about the hours you put into it that’s my hump currently kind of lol but I’m working on that . Thanks 🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼
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O and thanks for the input on the need for deaf tutors during classes you helped me with a decision’
I understand some hearing people are curious about how long to sign fluently but in fact, no one can do this even in 10 years except for rare hearing people by nature that could do this. It takes more than 20 years for them to be a really good signer but fluently, impossible! Yes, it includes many interpreters are not fluent in ASL. I just wanted to give you feedback. Thanks for listening :)
Thank you for that feedback. Yes, definitions of "fluent" vary. But you are always learning.
It is no such thing as vary for fluency. I am native signer and i am ASL teacher over 20 years. i believe definition of fluency is smooth not choppy.
What?! That sounds impossible... I believe people just use the term fluency too broad. Fluency does not mean proficiency / native or even that close to. Fluency means you don‘t have to overthink all the time and whatever you want to express you can describe enough to get your point across and understand the majority of things someone tries to tell you
So if it would take 10 years that would mean it is like twice or three times as hard as learning chinese including the writing system
Hey ! I know you might not see this message because this video got out a few years ago. But anyways, Thank you for letting me know that It takes like a few years to learn the sign language ! I am actually trying to learn how to speak the sign language and always asking myself if it takes like a long time to learn it ! I am trying my best and I will never give up because I always wanted to try to speak the sign language. And yes it is pretty hard for me but I'll get used to it.
Anyways have a good Day/Night !
Thank you very much !
Def don't give up! For sure it takes time, but you can do it. 😀
I'm trying to learn sign language using the internet but don't have any deaf people to communicate with:(
[Jill] I would look into your area if there is a Deaf club. Also, you can meet people through Facebook groups. Good luck!
+ASL Stew .....thx a lot!
(Off topic) I love your nails!!!! I love nail art but I have to keep my nails nice and clean to interpret :( so I don't do nails art unless I'm on vacation
Katia R Thanks, I luckily am able to have my weekends off so most weekends I do my nails and then back to plain on Monday :(
I have serious nail envy here! I may need to do my nails just for weekends also.
Jill's Signs you should make a video on interpreters dressing code. Its so sad not wearing a super cute necklace to work or a fun pattern shirt or paint your nails with pretty designs >.
Interesting. So you can't have designs on your nails as an interpreter?
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People criticize you? Or give you feedback? There are accents in ASL and as a new singer it can be overwhelming. I’ve been signing for five years and I’m still perplexed by how many different ways there are to sign one word! I think it’s ok if you’re signing something completely wrong but I have a friend who’s deaf and his signing is so different like he signs “home” backwards so it’s hard to understand sometimes
I don't get many people criticizing me anymore. I did by a teacher in the past.
I'm about to be a sophomore in highschool and instead of taking spanish as my language i wanted to take sign language over my next three summers (so i have three like "years " of it and it can count as my language). My friend had taken this mini course in freshman year where once a week for one semester she would go to a class and learn asl. When I told her I was planning to take it as my language she kinda blew me off and said "Oh get ready for the most boring class ever. I learned it all already, it's pretty easy,"
It just really annoyed me how she was so confident she had learned the language in less than half a year so I just youtubed how long it actually takes to learn it well to see if she had any sense to her statement.
[Jill] I highly doubt she has mastered a language within 6 months. If she has... then wow she is absolutely amazing (I'm being sarcastic....). I feel that often people get into ASL classes and don't realize the complexity of the language, like the culture that comes with it. I am always learning and will never stop. Really with any language, you never stop learning and if you do then you will fall behind. Don't worry about her. I would say that to become really fluent, it depends on your effort and how you learn, but it will take a while for sure. Some people never become fluent but can still communicate. Good luck with your classes!
Thank you :D
See, the thing about me is, I live in an area where not a lot of deaf people live. I've been learning ASL from Bill Vicars channel. He is very helpful and I really love signing. But if there are no deaf people for me to communicate with, then what other options are there. None of my friends are learning, well one used to but she quit and is trying to start again but she hasn't :\ .. I sign in the mirror sometimes but idk if it's helping me because I have no deaf community to correct my mistakes and if I keep doing that, my mistakes will become bad habits and I don't want that!
I would say that you should check out our Practice Pals Facebook page. There you can meet up with people and then maybe you could Skype to practice. Here is the link: facebook.com/groups/1740693782818921/
+ASL Stew okay. thank you so much !
Denasia Furniss I JUST started learning and I would like some to practice with. Maybe we can help each other out?
Good video. I was wondering if you had done a video on mouth morpheme? I think it called. Mouthing.
Sheena Bryant No I have not done that yet. I can add that to the list. :)
Thanks :-)
Amazing. I want to learn so bad.
I've wanted to learn sign languages since I was probably 5 or something like that (I'm 27 now) and I was gonna take a class in high school, but there weren't enough student that applied to that class, so it ended up being cancelled. other than that I haven't found any classes I can take :/ (maybe I should add I live in Sweden, so tips for americans might not apply) a few years back I started watching signed youtube videos (most of them songs interpreted to ASL), and I was suprised watching this video, because I found myself understanding a few signs here and there :)
I'm absolutely in no way saying that I'm good at ASL, but I was pleasantly surprised finding myself understanding at least a few signs, seeing as I've not really hard core tried to really learn ASL :)
That's great you are understanding some signs. :) Even just having some exposure and trying to learn on your own will help. Good luck!
ASL Stew maybe I should add that I didn't start to watch them to learn ASL, just to see some kind of it, so I absolutely don't take them as lessons to learn ASL :)
I understand
How do you teach a person who is deaf from birth sign language... Like how would you teach them the word criticize?
Thank you for this but i have no one to practice with.
thank you jill
ruth butler You're welcome.
Hi i'm 17 years old and i'm a C.O.D.A. I think you know what that means. well i post singing videos and stuff like that here on youtube, and I wanted to change to have my channel be on ASL but i was never really sure how to start that. Would you like to help me get started on this, if so could you please inbox me here. Thank you.
Oh also my life goal is to be a ASL interpreter
I don't know any deaf people, and there's only one ASL class, but it starts next year!! :/ What am I supposed to do until then?
+Megan W You can watch and learn from videos online. You can try to find a "pen pal" concept but with video. Maybe set up a video chat and practice your sign language that way. Hope that helps!
Watch switched at birth :)
+Soukaina El Bakkali Yes that is good receptive practice. :) Thank you for the suggestion!
Soukaina El Bakkali i already do :) ive watched all 4 seasons like three times xD
I am 11 and I'm trying to learn sine I'm not very Fluent but I know a little
That's great you are learning! You will get better with practice. Good luck!
@@TheStews thank you
Did you do sign language every day to become fluent?
but how do you socialize with deaf people if you don't have any deaf friends? ...and I have a feeling you will say something like go to deaf events, etc or something.. so in that case how can I meet people if I am very much a beginner at sign language? I won't be able to communicate very well beyond finding out names of people and I'm sure I would be very annoying needing everyone to sign so slow and repeat things again and again for me
+ConcreteAngelx3 I see you got an answer from another video. :)
yes, thanks so much
@@TheStews I'm in the same situation rn, what video did you find the answer in?
@@ConcreteAngelx3 I'm in the same situation rn, what video did you find the answer in?
I Have a question about learning signing, I have no deaf/ASL community in my state. There are no programs within several hours of my house (In Wisconsin) that teach ASL to hearing. I do have a friend who is an interpreter in Washington who skypes and visits and teaches me ASL. I also have a friend here who's parents are deaf and they've told her many times they'd be happy to talk with me and help me learn. The problem is my local friends parents S.E.E and my other friend whos teaching me is doing ASL. How can i communicate with them in person and learn if i'm learning something totally different? Any suggestions on learning ASL and being able to practice?
japangrl Well the main difference with SEE and ASL are grammar and using initialized signs. You can learn signs in general from learning SEE (just un-initialize them). I guess if you don't' have anyone to practice with then using skype with your interpreter friend would be good. If you have no one to practice then watching videos I think would be your best bet.
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Do you have any ideas on how to get involved with fluent Sign Language speakers? I want to get better at signing. In a year and a half I am going to graduate high school and start college (Getting my interpreting degree.) But I am not really sure how to find someone to practice with and I don't know anyone who is fluent in sign langauge.
I am hearing and have a question that I thought maybe you or Jenna could answer. It has become part of modern spoken language to address more than one person (regardless of sex/gender) as "guys." I was wondering if it's the same way with signing. Are there different signs for addressing groups of people formally and causally? If there are, are they used the same way "guys" is used in spoken language nowadays, to include all genders? I'm really enjoying your channels!
TogetherWeWander Well I would say there are not specific "you guys" type of signs (not that I'm aware of), but it shows more in how you are signing, ie your style. If you are representing yourself in a more formal way, then it would translate (in spoken language) to a more formal word, and same for casual words. Hope that makes sense.
Jill's Signs That does make sense. Thank you for answering that!
This should be in every elementary curriculum
Good morning. Can meet you at Jamba Juice address River Park Shopping Center, 190 Paseo Del Centro, Fresno, CA 93720 at 6pm. On 21 of March, 2015 that Saturday. Can you come deaf event or not?
David DeHarty So sorry David but I live in NY. A little too far for me. :)
Alright
Why do you sign think under your eye?
Probably just being lazy that day.
Your "E"s are incorrect. You sign LANGUAGE incorrectly. You're kind of PSE...