3 Most Common Fingerspelling Mistakes

3 MOST COMMON FINGERSPELLING MISTAKES (and their fixes)

These are not only the 3 most common fingerspelling mistakes I see ASL students make, but they're the mistakes that are the most costly to your fingerspelling success. Are you struggling to be accurate? To get faster? To lessen the stumbles and mistakes? These may be why no matter what you do, or how many times you practice it doesn't get better. After you watch this video I know you'll be excited to dive into fingerspelling, so be sure to come back next week for a fun and fast practice.

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[GeoffreyLaureate]

Brilliant! Best takeaway? When you are reading, you look at whole words, not individual letters. This will really help me. Thank you!

[kds]

That last one one tho! I (f51) taught myself the alphabet in 5th grade from the back of a book on Helen Keller. For literally 41 years I've struggled to understand the directions of the letters and it's why I never went any further with this (but I kept my love off the language, which is why I'm teaching myself now)
Thank you for the clarification!

[rhondahonda]

I thought Bill vicars was the goat! You are amazing too! You live in the details. I love when you said that you do t want to watch our hands bouncing while we fingerspell!

[kennethmaese]

Great stuff, especially the facing of c, o and d

[Pandore]

I love your videos it’s really helping! Thank you 😍 it’s helping me learning

[rsa]

Thank you Rochelle - You are a great teacher! - Question: any tips on how to sign the same letter twice in a row like in Russell or Tommy?

[leanagonzalez]

Your videos are IT! With spelling, I’m still a bit lost b/c I’m dyslexic.

[gimygaming]

What do you do if you are a terrible speller?

[rita]

Thank you I'm new to finger spelling and this was helpful

[sns]

Thank you so much for this video! You're a joy to watch and very informative. I loved the part where you literally looked at your hand and said, "Relax!" :) That is such a good tip! I didn't realize I was squeezing my letters slightly. What would you say to a middle aged Momma going back to school for ASL that has premature arthritis? I'd love to know your input as we need to protect our instruments!

[aminbakhshi]

I love you, Ma'am...
thank you so much for everything you did for us...
and once again...
love you so so so so so so so so much..
thank you.

[torontotom]

Thank you my friend im learning so much!

[Corkypyro]

You're so awesome, thank you!! :)

[noggie]

Hey there, could you add captions to your video please?

[nancybrindley]

:-) Oh my goodness! I'm guilty of all of them!!! Yikes! Thank you

[kirstentorrence]

Hi! ASL3 and interpretation major, i think you should let other Deaf/native signers teach ASL. It leaves a bad mark on the Deaf community.