Idiom: Straight from the horse's mouth. What does it mean? Where did it come from? All those years I thought it had to do with the trade of horses and not with racing horses! Fun to unlearn something!
Thanks you elders of the Deaf Community the fun hertiage of fingerspelling backwards! There are ways to make it more challenging; doing longer words, doing it while walking backwards, doing it in lexicialized signing style instead of letter by letter.
This is a ASL Poem "Harry Potter & Quidditch" done in ABC Story fashion of using sequential handshapes of the alphabet to describe story of Harry Potter's surprise victory in Quidditch
7 Techniques of Expansions in ASL are Contrasting, Faceting, Reiterating, Role Shifting & 3D Info, Listing Nouns & Examples, Couching/Nesting, Describe & Do
I'm taking Language Acquistion & Development course at George Brown College. Linguistics is study of language. The 5 components of linguistics are Syntax, Semantics, Morphology, Phonology & Pragmatics.
In this video, I explain Pragamatic Developmment in ASL (American Sign Language).
ASL Discussion of Descriptive Classifiers. I use a few examples of familar characters seen on tv.Good Fingerspelling practice to catch the characters names!
Discussion in ASL about taking care of self. Key points: Basic needs (Shelter, Food, Sleep), Time Management = Trade offs, Managing Stress with the Right ATTITUDE!
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