Los Angeles ASL Class

Thursday ASL Class 8/22/19 GRAMMAR: Lexicalized Signs!

Fingerspelling that looks like a sign is called "lexicalized fingerspelling". Many short (3-5 letters) words that do not have a sign or are easy to spell will become their own signs by fingerspelling or omitting some letters (usually vowels) from the word. They are shown with a # sign before the word.

Thursday ASL Class 8/22/19 VOCAB LIST: Back-to-School📚📓✏📒📑🖋💻🔬📄🖍

School
Teacher
Class
Schedule
Math
English
Science
History
Project
Computer
Homework
Backpack
Test
P.E.
Student
College
Elementary
Middle school
High school
Major
Minor
Study

Thursday ASL Class 7/24/19 VOCAB LIST (with video!): Natural Disasters🌎🌋⛈🌊🔥

earthquake
tornado
hurricane
fire
flood/flash flood
tsunami
emergency
survive
hospital
doctor
surgery
panic
calm
volcano (eruption)
ambulance
firetruck
danger
protect
help
volunteer
shelter
escape
electricity
power outage
drought
police
hail
snowstorm
famine

Thursdsy ASL Class 7/18/19 VOCAB LIST: Going Out to Eat🍽🍔🍟🍕🥗🍰

prefer
yes please
no, thank you
restaurant
Greek
Korean
French
Indian
Mexican
Thai
American
Chinese
Italian
fork
knife
spork
napkin
food poisoning
casual
fancy
dirty
clean
expensive
cheap
menu
glass
cup
plate
bowl
fast-food
to-go
manners

Thursday ASL Class 7/11/19 VOCAB LIST:
A Day at the Beach🏖🏄‍♀️🌞🌊

pool
swim
watermelon
hot
beach
surf
shark
ice cream
vacation
swimsuit
sunburn
play
sunscreen
family reunion
dolphin
relax
work
ocean
dive
sand
crab
lifeguard
competition

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! ❤💙❤
(No class today, 7:00pm next week)

Important!!!

1. Thursday ASL Class is canceled this week! We hope you have a happy and safe Fourth of July🇺🇸
2. Starting July 11, the time for ASL Class on Thursday nights will CHANGE to be from 7pm-8pm. The location is the same.

"I am a Child of God" gloss

HONORIFIC-ME GOD HIS CHILD
GOD SEND-ME HERE
HOME GOD GIVE-ME
MOM DAD KIND DEAR

Chorus
LEAD CL:1(COME-DOWN-WALK)
FIND HELP WAY-UP-HIM
CL:5 (LIST) TEACH-ME MUST ACTION
LIVE PRESENCE WITH HIM WILL

HONORIFIC-ME GOD HIS CHILD
NEED IMPORTANT
HIS WORD HELP-ME UNDERSTAND
BEFORE STUCK

Chorus

HONORIFIC-ME GOD HIS CHILD
WOW BLESSING CL:C (STUFF)
HAPPEN LEARN HIS WILL ACTION
LIVE PRESENCE WITH HIM WILL

Chorus

Baa Baa Black Sheep 🐑🐑🐧

The Itsy Bitsy Spider 🕷🌧

We asked everyone to pick one children's song and translate it. Our new friend Shawn got pretty clever with his choice of song.

Thursday ASL Class 6/6/19: Conceptual Translating. A single word, in English, may be signed several different ways in ASL. We worked on thinking about the concept behind the word to correctly translate its meaning. Feel free to message us with any questions!

ASL Thursday Class 5/30/19: Signing Clearly
We learned how to differentiate between signs that have very similar shape and movement- but different meanings.

Want to practice your ASL? Come join us tomorrow at 11am for the Torrance ASL Branch picnic!
2000 Artesia Blvd.
Torrance, CA 90504

STORY!

DEAF JOKES!

DEAF JOKES

Intensifiers connected with specific signs!

1-PAH: Success, finally and passed

2-PING: Typically, tend-to, and usually

3-LURP: Empty, all gone, bare, bald, and dried up

4-FSH: Finished, stop, and knock-it-off

Intensifiers! Mouth movements to add emphasis to your meaning; not attached to specific signs:

1- POW: A sudden inpact or large instance
Examples: Hit, beat, affect, spread, win, heart-touch, shocked, car accident, etc.

2- CHA: A large object that is hard to move.
Examples: Large building, piano, oven, etc.

3- OOH: Extremely skinny or thin
Examples: Handrail, pole, person, etc.

4-PUH: Anything repetitive
Examples: Multiple buildings, parking lot with lots of cars, writing, etc.

5-PRB: Repetitive with enthusiasm
Examples: Studying, helping, cooking, driving, etc.

6-CSS (Painful grin): Just recently, close, etc.

7-THH: Lazily
Examples: cleaning, reading, walking, etc.

8-PUFF: A large amount of something
Examples: Bonfire, crowd of people, traffic, etc.

9-AHH: Far away, far in time, extreme (add tongue for added emphasis)
Examples: Far away, hitting a ball and it's direction, giving directions, mohawk, long time ago, far in the future, etc.

"One Fine Day" A story to help practice role shifting!

ASL CLASSifier fun!!