NatKat

I have been taking a few classes on ASL and I will want to learn more. However, I am having trouble forming my english sentence to be an ASL grammatically correct sentence. Any tips?

One thing I do enjoy is trying to sign to music. I became inspired to learn the signs to a song and video tape myself signing to the songs. I do not want to sign them incorrectly. Right now I am learning Sweeter by Gavin Degraw and have all of the signs I need down, but still confused on the grammatical usage.

Deafness

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Bottesini

Deaf ASL Teacher's perspective on ASL song(interpretation)

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Frisky Feline

I <3 you for your post!

metalangel

American Sign Language (ASL)

As I understand it the general rule is

[TIME] [TOPIC] [ACTION]

or

When it happened, what object/person/concept you're talking about, what happened to it.

Read the link, Dr Bill is a teacher, I'm not. His website is very very good, it's taught me a lot.

SimonJ

Hmm, wise person you are!

dogmom

FF and Botti, I'm glad you posted/reminded me about this on Deaf teacher's perspective of songs and ASL classes. When I took my first ASL class, it was taught by a hearing man and we did have to learn to so-called translate a song. I can see what the teacher in Botti's link means.

When I took ASL classes with Deaf teachers, we never did that, it wasn't even brought up.

Reba

Same with the CODA instructors that I had. No songs included in ASL classes.

Interpreting songs and theater are special skills that are taught in advanced interpreting classes and workshops.

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goldlegend

Thats the best rule that I was taught.

When it happened / What or who you're talking about / What about it or what did it do


All of my ASL classes at my school are taught by Deaf teachers and we never had any type of songs, either.