how do i sign "it" as in "say it"?

Hello! I hope this is an appropriate sub to post this to. I'd like some help coming up with ideas for an ASL/music activity for a D/HH outreach event I'm volunteering for.

I'm currently a Music Therapy major taking ASL classes at my university. I was asked by my ASL professor if I would be interested in volunteering to lead some music activities for their community outreach program. This program is for families who have deaf or hard of hearing children and is a way to get them connected to their community and have access to resources. There's recently been requests from the families to incorporate music into the outreach events and my professor thought of me and my music background. The children are aged 4-8 with around 6-8 families that come to each event. I've led one activity at an event so far. I wrote a pretty simple song with a few verses. Each verse was set around an autumn theme and relevant vocab. For example, one verse was about leaves falling to the ground and I taught color signs like red, green, yellow, and brown. It went very well, and the kids loved it! There's another event coming up that's winter/holiday themed and I'm having some trouble coming up with a new activity plan. I've looked at popular Christmas songs to see if I could teach signs for the lyrics, but they would be too complicated or have too many unfamiliar signs for the children who are not as familiar with ASL signs to learn. I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to create an activity that would incorporate signs, some level of music (I would be playing guitar), have a winter/holiday theme, and be appropriate for 4-8 year olds with varying levels of familiarity with ASL. Translating instructions to ASL would not be an issue, I am working with my professor to make sure I am signing instructions clearly and she will be there to fill in any gaps I am unable to do myself. I would rather avoid copying the exact format I used for the first activity if possible. If there's anything I need to explain better just let me know. Any recommendations or ideas would be welcome!

BASE HAND: index & thumb sticking out, other fingers curled.
DOMINANT HAND: palm upside down, index touching the tip of the BASE HAND's index, other fingers curled.

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Sorry, I don't really know what these words are called, so I can't search the subreddit for this

You know when you're having a conversation and you want to show your friend that you are actively listening and engaged? And you just throw in a word or two to say "yes, I'm listening, go on"

Words like "mmhmmm?" "Yeah?" "Oh" "go on"

What signs can I use to show my friends that I'm listening and care about what they have to say? Is that even a thing in ASL? Or do you just show you're engaged & focused on the conversation by looking at the signer?

Thanks for your help!

Community college isn't an option. Would really like for my loved ones to be able to talk to me. I know a lot of sign but need ways for my loved ones to have access to learning ASL. A lot of them are very broke as well. A lot of them are neurodivergent or have learning disabilities that make it hard to stay on task.. i'm wishing lingvanno was free. Im still trying to get a referral to an audiologist so I can prove on paper to MediCal that I am hard of hearing so doctors, hospitals will take me seriously and to be allowed accomodations for my housing to give me hard of hearing doorbells and things like that. Would love resources for dead/hard of hearing alarms to wake people up that are ok for people with risk of seizures. I want to become more fluent in ASL too so that i can feel braver to meet other deaf and hard of hearing people. Nervous to post this. Thanks.

I'm studying for my ASL final and struggling with glossing statements like "I live in names city" "I live near the mall" "I live in an apartment" "My apartment is an average size" "I live with my fiance. His name is name" "I live with my 2 cats. One girl cat named Bliss. One boy cat named William" "I work at names work" "I drive to work" "It takes 8 minutes to drive to work" "I drive to college" "It's takes 25 minutes to drive to college"

So, in my lesson I am shown the sentence “Book book book what my?” She repeats the book sign three times by shifting her body to indicate the different books.

I am confused, why wouldn’t it just be “What/which book my?”

I was chatting with someone today who's a native signer and I noticed when he got more comfortable with the topic and with chatting he would sign FK (whatever). I can't remember the sentence but it was something like "people weren't nice at that job so I stayed quiet." I've seen it other times too meaning like FK class tomorrow and I understood the person is going to skip class. It didn't seem as harsh or vulgar as the English word so I was wondering if you could explain to me the meaning. I'm not planning on running around signing it I just want to understand the tone of it and how it would roughly translate to English if there's a translation. Maybe "the heck with it"? Or is it stronger than that?

Hey! I've been practicing on interpreting English to ASL, however, I get stuck on pronouns. In my sentences, I use a lot of "she" and "they," however, when signing I can't just sign it in the air without context. For example, "When Rose returns, she and my mom will go shop", I put it as "When Rose returns, shop, SHE, my mom, two of them, go-to." (Note, sorry if that's wrong, I'm trying to follow OSV). If I sign Rose in the beginning to the right, can I remove the she and continue on? Or from the speaker POV, it wouldn't make sense. If needed clarification on this question, please comment about. Thank you to anyone who answer.

Hello! This week for class we are supposed to post a video doing an ASL story. I chose to do a number story, and I've already created the story. However, I'm sure I should describe the title of the story using signs before I begin the story in the video.

I am curious how I would sign the title "A Cat Mourns Its Prey"

I know how to sign CAT, lol. But I looked up both MOURN(S) and PREY, and MOURN showed several different ways to sign (is it regional?) whereas PREY looked similar enough to one another but seems a bit long and complicated for such a short word? Should I just fingerspell it? Anyways. Thanks for the help in advance.

Hi all! I am currently a social work student and I have to complete a cultural immersion project. I’d like to interview someone who is part of deaf culture because I studied ASL a few years ago in a previous grad program.

If anyone is open to answering some questions via email, I would be so grateful! Feel free to comment or message me.

Many thanks in advance!

So most people I know sign CONNECT/CONNECTION with the F handshape. I usually sign it with my middle fingers touching my thumb instead. It's never posed a problem in everyday conversation but I was wondering if it is actually incorrect or if it's one of those things that gets the same meaning across? Thanks

Hi!

I ran across someone showing these signs, I'm not even completely sure they are ASL but I thought it would be worth a shot.

First sign was index finger pointing down, thumb pointing outwards similar to the emoji (but the thumb being straighter and pointing further out). Second was basically the same but with two fingers pointing straight down instead. However, one main difference from the emojis would be that the hand/fist itself wasn't pointing downwards, but rather it was more akin to a "fist bump" but the fingers as pictured. Third sign was a closed fist pointing straight forwards, but beforehand an almost swooping motion upwards with the fist open and then closing towards the end and making the fist.

Any help or ideas would be appreciated!

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Hi! I’ve never posted here and just recently joined this subreddit. I’m minoring in ASL in College and I’m only a few assignments away from finishing ASL 2. My previous professor said using OSV wasn’t required but some professors insist on using it. My professor this semester is pretty strict about the OSV format and I’m so bad at it. For my assignment I’m working on now, I have to translate sentences and film myself signing. There’s one I’m having a hard time with and I’d appreciate any advice!

The English sentence is “when my family watches movies, we always have popcorn, soda, and ice cream.”

When I tried using OSV I got this: “MOVIE ME MY FAMILY WATCH WE ALWAYS HAVE POPCORN SODA ICE CREAM”

This feels too much like English and I’m not confident in my translation at all. Any advice? I really love ASL but I’m afraid if I can’t figure out the OSV I’ll have a hard time in more advanced classes.

NMM

• eyes: squinted
• lips: pierced together

BASE HAND: fist DOMINANT HAND: index finger tapping the top of the fist

MOTION: down?? (hard to describe??) like it starts at the head and you move down to your hip

apologies for previous post, i hadn’t been on reddit in a while and am also still new to asl, i love learning and practicing it and can’t wait to get better at it!!)

anything helps, ty for your time!!

Hi, I hope this question is okay here.

I’ve been trying to research how different sign languages form numbers, and I’ve been having a hard time figuring out some details about larger ASL numbers (above 100), specifically when intermediate digits are zero. From what I’ve been able to tell, for three-digit numbers with a middle 0, you explicitly sign that 0, so e.g. 105 is signed as 1C 0 5; 209 as 2C 0 9 and so on (I’ll use C as a shorthand for hundred and M as a shorthand for thousand). Are there any other situations in which such an intervening zero is signed? For example, is 1005 signed as 1M 5 or 1M 0 5, or even 1M 0 0 5?

Also, what about years? From what I’ve gathered there, the convention is to split it into pairs of two-digit numbers (e.g. 19 80), is 1909 then signed as 19 9 or 19 0 9?

How do I sign "turn on" and "turn off"? Like if I want ask to turn the light on, turn tablet on, turn fan on, etc and same for off? I've seen some that are specific for certain things but can't figure out a generic one to teach a 3yo

Like if I want to say I am in school from august to may for example. How would I say that?

Hi, so I'm autistic and learning ASL mainly for dealing with social situations where I can't speak. I have been watching Bill Vicar's videos (super helpful and he is just so full of life!) but I realize immersion and signing with members of deaf community is best way to become fluent. I was wondering if like it would be acceptable to approach a deaf social group in my area (like on Facebook) for different outings? First off would help me practice ASL. And since speaking is a huge problem for me in lots of public areas I tend to avoid going out much for recreation ( I stick to visiting small model train shop if I want to hang out and talk about something with someone). Would be nice to do like group museum visit with others who wouldn't just feel hindered by my selective mutism.

Hello! Having a surprisingly hard time finding one consistent sign to encompass the idea of a kettle / teapot. I’ve seen “tea” + “pot, “tea” + “pour” in the y shape, and I’ve even seen a few folks ‘drawing’ an old fashioned kettle in the air (pot, then spout, then handle).

I’m very new to ASL (about 3 weeks in), but I know that different regions and communities have unique ways of communicating the same idea. Just curious as to what ya’ll think!

hello! this is my first reddit post so sorry if it’s awkward. i’m taking a elementary level asl course and i have an assignment i need help with! i really just am stumped and cant understand anything despite studying and im just so frustrated. can someone please help me ;;

My HoH foster daughter is turning 6 and when I asked her what she wants for her birthday she said books. She LOVES mermaids and the ocean, does anyone know of any mermaid/ocean books with ASL? Thanks

Hello all. My child (3yo) and I are hearing but we are interested in learning ASL. We have learned a lot of basic words from YouTube videos that we use regularly at home, but I would like to find either age appropriate in person classes or some sort of online program for her. I called a bu ch of schools.for the deaf in New England but they only cater to kids who are deaf or hard of hearing. Can anyone suggest classes or resources that we could take advantage of? I think a classroom setting might be best so she can have real conversations with other people/kids.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Hello

I'm learning sign and now that winter is coming I'm gonna have to wrap up more and more. I have some mittens that are warm but obviously very difficult to sign with, and some thin gloves that do mostly let me move my fingers normally but still make my hands super cold. Does anyone know of any good gloves that will keep my hands warm but also let me sign somewhat clearly?

Hope this is the right flair, sorry if not!

Hi I’m in the beginning stages of a comic where the main character is HoH. I have started and plan on doing a lot more research and learning for ASL, but right now that’s not the point.

The main character’s adoptive dad is a mage and I wanted him to use ASL when casting. His powers are based around gravity and I picked a few basic things he will be using a lot to try to draw the signs he will be using. My handwriting is horrible so the ones shown are “attraction”, “repulsion”, “crush”, “fix” (as in fixed position), “throb” (in place of pulse), and “slash”. Do these look accurate? If not, do you have any suggestions on what to do differently? Thank you so much in advance to anyone who responds, I really appreciate it!

So I have 2 different questions, one about grammar and one about vocabulary

Grammar: If you're talking about a movie genre (i.e. "I like pirate movies"), what's the syntax? Do you sign MOVIE ABOUT PIRATE? Or PIRATE MOVIE? or MOVIE PIRATE? Or what?

Vocabulary: Do you just fingerspell the name of the genre? Or do you just pick the closest sign to the genre? Like, I've been assuming for "heist movies" I would sign STEAL and for "comedy" I would sign FUNNY. But with "action movies", would it be the sign for ACTION (noun) or ACTION (verb)?

I'm not quite sure if there's a better place to ask this question

Thanks for your help!