What SIGN LANGUAGE sounds like in ENGLISH!

[boatingbrookcosplay]

I love and hate how grammar varies so widely between languages

[xilj]

People say it's not useful to have these sorts of subtitles, and you should focus on real translations when learning a language. Those people are wrong. This is incredibly helpful. It allows people to focus on one aspect of a complex language at a time then connect the bits later.

[randomworld]

I am totally gonna start saying "double awful" now LMAO

[tony]

English is my main language, but Mandarin is my mother tongue, and I minored in Japanese in college, so this unironically made A LOT of sense to me. It’s what I feel like Chinese sounds like if you’re directly translating it word for word into English.

[partytime]

I have been learning sign for 4 years now and one time i ask someone their name I said " your name what" in English. They looked at me if i was high.

[mushroom]

my ASL teacher does this all the time to emphasise the difference in grammar between sign and english!!! its silly and genuinely really helpful

[Jonurquhart_]

This video was posted back in September before the Starbucks boycott xoxo

[silvernickel]

The fact that I’m learning Spanish helped me understand this a lot more lol

[abbybrown]

Please please please do more of these if you enjoy them. I am dyslexic and learning ASL, i love seeing examples of grammar.

[MBheARTed]

It took me entirely too long to figure out that "know you" is "you know" 😂😂

[twarasandeep]

This does feel like I’m actually understanding how the signs work a lot better! Thank you!

[immyhoney]

I appreciate how it drops the unnecessary filler words. Seems more efficient to leave them out.

[lalole]

Thank you. I've only just thought about this and searched for this answer.

[TinaNewtonArt]

My deaf friend was so blunt and straight to the point ☝️. And I was like wow why are you always so blunt. And he told me it's cause signing how we grammatically write would be exhausting and take too long and he didn't have time for that. I was like "good point"

[readingdino]

This actually helps a lot in understanding sign language and how it works.

[starlittheatre]

This video was very eye opening. I hadn't even considered that ASL could be like most other languages where grammar would be entirely different and would require some translation stuff. I was always under the impression that it *was* already a direct translation, but of course that wouldn't work or make sense lmao. Thank you for this! I feel a little smarter now.

[snuff]

Now i understand more. Thank you so much! I went to college ans had a class with a girl who said her 1st language was ASL instead of english so she said she still has problems with grammar when writing papers. I wasnt quite sure what she meant by that until now ❤

[harpurr]

I used to do relay calls for Deaf people and HoH people, as well as those who can hear who need to communicate with them, and we learned briefly how ASL's grammar works. Sometimes, people who only grew up signing, would type the same way, and it was important to be able to understand and translate that to someone on the phone. It's really fascinating!

[Neo_Is_Done]

if people just talked like this all the time, i would be so happy

[dtetv]

"know you" was what caught me off guard 😂