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Was there anything in the video that you found challenging to understand? Why? Please share your thoughts and explain what made it challenging for you (e.g., use of space, classifiers, transitions, NMMs, or something else).
If you have any other observations or questions, include them here.
Honestly, the speed was the most difficult for me — the quick shifts from room to room. Also, he sometimes mentioned something I hadn’t noticed, or didn’t mention something I had, so squaring the quick video with his description was challenging in that way too. Still generally good to follow, though!
Some things that were challenging for me to understand were:
0:48 using an open B handshape to show tall ceilings – I normally think of that handshape being used on the ground and walls not the ceiling
1:40 – Handshape used to describe the shape of the headboard – why was that a B handshape and not a 1 handshape?
1:48 – I did not understand what the bent V handshape represents when he was explaining the headboard
I wonder how well I would have understood the video if the images of the house were not on the right side of the screen!That man is HANDSOME. I know ASL teachers are typically easy to understand, but his signs are so CLEAR! I love it when signers have larger hands and not tiny bird fingers. I watched it 3x… I was able to catch most of it the first time, all of the second time and it was much easier the third time (a week later). I did miss his fingerspelling when talking about the kids’ room upstairs. Game? It is a bedroom so it didn’t make sense. I slowed it down and still missed it. I haven’t quite mastered the lexcalized spelling of sink yet myself. Working on it. I really appreciate his use of classifiers and facial expressions (particularly when he describes the white room!). This whole lesson has been really hard for me. Spatially I keep getting myself confused, but receptively, this video made a lot of sense.
I agree with you the visuals helped, BUT I would also lose someone describing their house in English. Where is your sink? Your bed is where?
Once I was in a specific space I could follow but if he didn’t announce the room (or the video didn’t show) sometimes I was lost in the transition. Definitely would not have gotten the wood garage door without the video.
Some more general descriptions I don’t think I really would have gotten without the video – the height of the living room, the layout of the living room and sitting area in the master bedroom. It’s like finger spelling – -if I’m loose when I watch it, I can get it but if I tense and try for each specific letter, it is hopeless.This video was rather simple to understand. The hardest part was figuring out signer’s perspective. I unfortunately already have issues with left and right when giving directions in English. So, it makes sense that I would also have some difficultly with left and right in ASL.
When you are talking about describing the headboard, however I understood it the B-shape was more to show where is was in space, then he gave more detail with the V-shape. But that is just my understanding.
He used incredible NMM which helped me understand his signing easier. He was fast and I got hung-up when he was describing going around using the staircase and looking down at the living room. His usage of space was wonderful to study!
I loved the way he set the camera’s perspective when describing the different views of the rooms. The kitchen description where he turned around to show the cabinets behind him while cooking took me many views to understand fully! Fascinating process to wrap my head around the signer’s perspective.
I find I can usually follow the signer’s perspective if that is all I am doing (in real time — I have difficulty with time driven tasks, like video games and such). When combined with something displaying another perspective at the same time (the accompanying pictures in this video, or say, a top down view of a floorplan diagram like in class) something in my brain just seems to short circuit trying to map the agreement and I just end up confused.
The other place where I find doing two things at once a bit of a challenge with spatial visualization is when Jason is demonstrating and we are watching him to sign along with it. If I try to direct my eyes to the object like we are supposed to I miss what Jason is doing, but if I don’t, I’m practicing doing it “wrong”.
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