Weeks January 18th-25th

Hello world!

My name is Evelyn Kim and I am an American Sign Language (ASL) student who is on self-learning journey that will hopefully result in fluency!

Long time no see! I apologize for the wait; last week was so hectic I didn't have the time to make and upload a newsletter! Don't worry, my last week's progress was combined with this weeks so you get to see a 2-in-1! 

Anyways, starting my little recap, I had a fun time learning the getting ready signs, such as 'to put on makeup', 'to change clothes', and 'to comb your hair'! I feel like they really resonate with my daily life so it allowed me to make expand my daily vocabulary. 

I also learned many descriptive, opposite signs, like cheap/expensive, warm/cool, tall/short, and right/left. This is perfect because including adjectives when talking or signing is super helpful in communicating your thoughts across! I really appreciated that lesson. 

And as stated in my reflection, I found it very helpful that many of the signs in ASL correspond to the word they are describing! Particularly, the 'every' signs are a perfect example of that!

Thanks for tuning in, and I'll see you next week!

Evelyn

Week of January 11th-17th

Hello world!

My name is Evelyn Kim and I am an American Sign Language (ASL) student who is on self-learning journey that will hopefully result in fluency!

This week was another great week of learning ASL! The signs I learned were (in my opinion) a bit harder to remember, but with consistent practice, I know I'll get it down! That being said, there were some problems/questions that I faced this week, such as identifying differences between similar-looking signs, but I know I will get that down with consistent practice as well! 

Some concepts that were stressed again this week were the importance of facial expressions! As I was learning questions, I realized how crucial it is to control your face when asking the questions. For example, when you ask WH questions (what, where, when, how, etc.), you have to frown your face and bring your eyebrows down. But when you ask yes or no questions, you raise your eyebrows! I also learned that when asking questions, you start and end with the subjects: What's your name? -> You-name-what-you? (the exact sign sequence). In some ways an easy aspect to learn about forming questions, but I find that I often forget to add the ending subject, so I'll have to work on that a bit more!

That's if for this week, and see you the next!

Evelyn