High Frequency Words

This week, I learned a lot more high frequency words in ASL. Some of these included learning the difference between “your” and “you”, and learning how to sign “student” and “teacher”. There were many more, but I thought these were pretty cool and relevant. Also, something interesting that caught my attention was that I inadvertently got some insight into different dialects as I was practicing through Youtube. Although I initially was taught to sign “who” by essentially drawing a circle around my mouth (check out the video a couple blogs back that shows me signing this), I recently learned a different way of signing this from Dr. Bill Vicars. Additionally, this week I noticed that the grammar structure of ASL is far different from the other 2 languages that I study, and that has been particularly frustrating – so keep an eye out for a post from me at some point about this grammar structure if you’re interested!