Help with ASL sentences for online class.

Question

I need help with ASL words and how I can best learn them. "1.) I know that woman. 2.) Do you know me? 3.) They practice sign. 4.) That boy knows my name. 5.) That girl is hearing. 6.) That man is a student. 7.) That man is my student. 8.) I have 6 books. 9.) Where do you live? 10.) What is your name? 11.) I’m from New York. 12.) I live in LA. 13.) I live in San Francisco. 14.) I am hard of hearing. 15.) I forgot your name. 16.) I’m not a student, I’m a teacher. 17.) I am learning ASL. 18.) What do you teach? 19.) Where do you learn to sign? 20.) Where is your ASL class? 21.) Do you know ASL? 22.) I have a nice flower. 23.) Do you have a rose? 24.) Put down your name. 25.) This flower and that flower are different, they are not the same."

Answer 1

Since ASL is a visual/spatial language, I would recommend to get the full import of the translation, you ask for a lesson so the tutor can show you not only the signs but the placement and NMM's that should accompany those sentences. Writing the language is possible but a gloss is difficult to understand unless you understand all the notations.

Answer 2

ASL is not English grammar. But to remember how to use ASL grammar. Follow the TOSVQ (Time, Object, Subject, Verb, Question). Object is always the first before the action. Also not only the sign language, you must include Facial Expression (NMM - Non-Manual Marker) which helps in grammar understandable.

For example:

YOU NAME, "what" (lower brows, tilted head, hold till response)

STUDENT, ME NOT (negation - headshake "no"); TEACHER, ME (negation - headshake "yes")

ASL, YOU LEARN, FINISH, WHERE (lower brows, tilted head, hold till response)

TOMORROW, DEAF EVENT, ME GO-TO, WILL