Translating english to ASL

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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.
 
NatKat said:
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.
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http://www.alldeaf.com/our-world-ou...hers-perspective-asl-song-interpretation.html
 
NatKat said:
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?
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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.
 
:wave: 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.
 
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.
 
metalangel said:
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.
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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


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