Jentry Dutton

  Hey guys! I know in last week's blog I said I was going to learn numbers in ASL, but I changed my mind. I was starting to forget some words I've learned in previous weeks, so I opted for a review week. I decided to go back through old notes and rewatch the YouTube videos I learned from! The words I'd forgotten were school, we, they, clean up, tomorrow and yesterday.   I decided to practice each forgotten word five times. After I made sure I got those down I practiced some sentences. The video I used is posted below (because I couldn't upload the one I made 😕) along with a picture of how to say school! I hope you all are doing well in your projects! Thanks for taking the time to read my blog! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTiXNOhTI4c

    Hello and welcome back to my blog! This week I learned sentence structure in ASL. Honestly I'm very surprised at how simple sentence structure really is in ASL. Here's an example of a common sentence and its structure in ASL. "My brother walks home everyday" in ASL is Everyday my brother walks home.  The reason for this is that American Sign Language has a general format used for sentences. It goes like this: Time + Topic + Comment. I had to learn some time vocabulary to be able to make some sentences. What I mean by time is not three thirty or 5 o'clock. The words I learned are week,everyday, the days of the week, weekend, today, tomorrow and yesterday.      This week made me realize that  I want to revise my schedule. Next I think I'm going to learn numbers in in ASL, because I will most likely need them when working with children. I'm very pleased with how this project is coming along so far, but there is still work to be done! Thanks for readin...

                Welcome back to my blog ! This week I learned eighteen vocabulary words and two short phrases! I didn't have a specific topic or group of words I was trying to learn. I just learned eighteen  words and two short phrases I thought would be most useful in my future job, pathway, and when working with kids in general. It was incredibly fun to learn!     Here is a list of the 20 words I learned : Home, school, car, book, all done, clean up, more, stop, walk, run, please, thank you, mom, dad, brother, sister, we, they, shoes, and parents. For the most part the majority if the words were easy to learn, but four them I had a difficult time mastering. For some unknown reason all done  was really tricky. It's a swooping motion and I had a hard time remembering it. The next one that tricked me was brother  it's a word that requires two hands and I kept messing it up. They and parents gave me troubles too.  ...

         Hey guys ! This week I learned greetings and questions in American Sign Language. I learned five phrases that I felt I would be using immediately. The first word I learned was quite simple, hello. It is one motion, using one hand, so it was very easy to learn. The word hey is also super simple and I learned that one after hello. What's up ?  uses two hands and I had a harder time getting the hand placement correct. Hey, hello, and what's up are all I've mastered for greetings right now.       The next thing I moved into learning was basic questions and their answers. What is your name is the first question I learned to ask. An important thing to remember when asking questions in ASL is that the question word goes at the end of the sentence. Your name is what is actually how it is said in ASL. After learning the question I learned how to say my name is.  This question and answer was very easy to learn. The last question...