3 posts tagged “asl”
No talking along with this one.
I tried to use indexing for the pronouns.Was it (even vaguely) correct or comprehensible?
I don't know any fluent ASL speakers IRL but tons of people post vlogs (video blogs) in sign. I found Joshua Judd through tag exploration and his vlog about burgerking inspired me to post this response. I'd love to hear what I did wrong (almost everything I'm sure) because this is my first time signing for an audience as well as my first time doing straight-to-web video through iMovie. The Signing Time kid videos we've been doing with Gunnar are great for vocabulary but they suck for learning grammar and conversational ASL. Anyway, enough waffling and disclaimer, here it is.
just in case anybody is, you know, wondering what i want for xmas...
I guess perhaps some additional commentary is in order. Looking over it, the list is interesting as a projection into the consumerist realm of my current interests and the ways I spend my time.
1. Fitness - Midweight merino wool base layer for chill nor-cal mornings on the bike; Polar HRM to further optimize my cycling and running activities to lose the last %@%&)! seven pounds around my waist
2. Wrenching on Bikes - Park Torque wrench because it's in the "nice to have" tool category that I never think to buy for myself
3. Time with 2-year-old - Signing Time videos, which Gunnar refers to as the "kids" (by contrast with "baby dance", the Classical Baby HBO videos). I'm really enjoying learning ASL from these videos and other sources (like the excellent ASL University site) and it doesn't hurt that the songs are incredibly infectious.
4. Gaming - 1 Year of Xbox Live Gold. Not nearly as much time spent playing video games as in the pre-kid years, but I did pick up Gears of War last week and have been working through it late at night.
The other time-sink is reading SF, more on that later, but HBM just hooked me up with 1000 thick pages of Alistair Reynolds and Charles Stross so I'm pretty much set at this point.
