Why Use Sign Language When You Can Talk? (American Sign Language Vlog)
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As a hearing person learning ASL, I really appreciate your ASL videos. Thank you! Love your channel!
I am hearing and I love watching you sign. I am Polish and I wish more deaf people made videos in Polish Sign Language as I'm trying to learn it but there aren't as many resources as for ASL. I'm going to be a dispensing chemist so I hope I'll be able to communicate in sign language with my deaf patients.
Thank you for your videos. Im partially deaf, with tinnitus too. I found your videos very well presented and full of good info, thank you form england.
I usually SimCom when I talk to my mom, she know a little bit of sign language from raising me, and I teach her sometimes. I tend to sign when I'm around deaf people and out of habit my voice goes mute because I went to a deaf school and I usually do SimCom around friends that can hear and sign. So I really appreciate your videos and want to say, keep making videos and teaching others about the D/deaf community.
I love your ASL videos! People don't realize how hard it is to Sim-Com and how it's not completely accurate. I sim-com sometimes for a short time or in an informal situation, but people have to understand it's not true ASL!
So, I personally want to learn ASL. I am a hearing person, but I just feel like it is one of those important things that you should learn some of in life. I really appreciate your videos with captions because I can make connections between what movements mean what words. I doubt I could repeat them, but I could understand some. Thank you a lot, Rikki
thank you for being considerate and having captions and transcriptions available- these are always such a big help!
Your awesome and I've been learning PSE for almost a years now, I definitely have learned a lot from your vidoes
Keep up the good work Rikki
*plus you seem like you would be hella cool to hang out with*
I always really appreciate the captions on your ASL videos, so thank you for that ☺
Good job! Tell them girl
Thanks for the captioning. I love your ASL only videos, but since I don't know ASL, I can only understand the basics (I know Auslan).
The 'if you can talk, why talk?' comment irritated me, for many of the same reasons as you, but also because if a hearing person was bilingual, and they wanted to make a video in French one day and English the next, people wouldn't give them crap. pinkchocolatebreak does her videos in about 5 languages, and I have to use CC for them but so what? It's awesome.
I love ASL vids cause I'm learning ALS and I have no one to practice with so this makes me soooo happy! ❤️❤️❤️
I have picked up a few signs from your videos, so besides your normal (fantastic, btw) content, it's cool in that way as well. I seriously love your videos and hope you feel better!
I just wanted to add that I love your ASL videos o/
Rikki I really like your honestly .. and your beautiful personality ..you're gratifying to see .
I’m a hearing person and I actually think it’s cool that you sign in some of your videos! You’re making me want to learn ASL. I’ve known deaf people in the past and it annoyed me that I didn’t know how to communicate with them (without using my phone to type out things for them to read). I hate having those barriers... that’s part of the reason why I’m learning German as well, so I can take down that language barrier between us. I should learn ASL! I have ADHD and I’m left-handed, so I know how frustrating it is when the world isn’t made for you.
Hey Rikki thanks for sharing. Great video as always hope you are well. :) I love watching ASL hands :) more access for all. Keep it up.
As a mainstreamed deaf adult I relate to this so much. Two years into sign language, but I'm in a rural area with few resources and fewer deaf people :/
Awesome you tell them girl !! 👍🏻😻😻😻
I've been profoundly deaf for 11 months and am also late deaf, I struggle with the issue of using ASL over being using my verbal skills. I am the only deaf member in my family. Most of society does not sign so it sometimes makes me consider just staying oral. I am taking sign language lessons one on one and can sign about the level of a small child now but as you know its difficult. I sign when I talk but it slows me down trying to find the sign to fit the words which is not always so easy. I enjoy your videos and I feel like I have a ton in common with you.
Thank you I'll keep working on my ASL
Rock on. I have the luxury of losing my hearing slowly. So I will have a few more years of experiences in the hearing world. So I get to learn ASL at a slower pace. It is still not easy. Now that I think of it as a separate language than English. So far I been self taught. But I just started ASL 1. And it's so boring because I know most of it already. But it's sorely needy practice.
It's got me thinking that I am probably going to be voice off for the most part.
starbuxed the hardest part is that I need to stop talking when I'm learning ASL which makes it harder for me to communicate with hearing people. I've been told that this is the fastest way to learn. I lost my hearing through a TBI a brain injury and I'm profound which means I'm afraid if I stop talking I'll forget how. It's a catch 22 for me and I'm already developing a deaf accent, the more I talk the less I have it.
Rachel Broughton I have menieres disease and vestibular migraines. So go team dizzy. Now about 8 years ago I had an abusive ex girlfriend. She ended beating the crap out of me and hitting me with her car. She ended up causing an aphasia and made my speech impediments worse. So I totally feel that. I know what it's like to not be able to communicate. Wanting to say something but just can't. personally I just see the deaf accent as something that just happens. But then again I grew up with a stutter and other speech issues. So not talking clearly isn't a big deal for me.
starbuxed I'm not wining about the accent as much as I'm experiencing rapid deterioration of my verbal skills that scares me to death. I'm starting to forget what sounds sound like, every day sounds and it's frightening when it happens. I lost my hearing suddenly and it's a huge change and it's taken me 11 months to just learn to deal with the psychological aspects alone. I'm lucky enough to live in an area that has access to a deaf therapist which helps me tremendously. I also suffer from Tonic seizures that at the moment are under control with medication. I suffer from many side affects from my brain injury. My deaf community where I love is small with no other late deaf people like me so I have many questions and these videos help me a lot.
I'm still very new to ASL (a year and a half in, but haven't been consistent until a few months ago). I would sign a sentence and then say it (when speak to other hearing people) and someone asked me can I just speak and sign at the same time. I was like....actually no, I can't. Different sentence structure and my goal is to speak ASL as accurately as I can.
I am Deaf since 2 but can speak very well that people would think I can hear. When I sign I sign fully ASL I try not to speak reason.. it way I think .. it how I want to express! ASL is a “Visual Language “ while English speaking isn’t. Keep posting your video! !
Love your videos! Yes, you do have captions, but I can't read them and watch your signing too! Maybe some day I won't need them!
I am working on a presentation for school and one of the questions we have are what are the pros and cons of using ASL vs Speaking. Can you do a video on this subject? I haven't really had success on finding any articles or research but I found your videos :)
I enjoy your videos and trying to understand first without captions and then get mad at myself for knowing I should've known a few of the sentences. Lol
I like how you sign almost in perfect English syntax too, helps me learn to reads hands more. I've been practicing only 2 months, almost 3. But watching others sign is the difficult part.
I need to switch to ASL syntax and stop speaking at the same time.
I found your channel through Chronically Jacquie in the comments on one of her videos. I've been enjoying your videos and if you or your followers like science type videos, there are quite a few channels with captions on most of their videos, and the videos that don't have captions, the autocaptions are actually pretty good. Granted I don't know if my hearing and lipreading is just making up for it. You can look at my subscriptions, or go to Scishow and look at the associated channels there.
You're welcome! :)
Hearing and learning ASL, can’t say I understand why someone would ask the question, it’s been great learning ASL and looking in on your point of view I understand the benefits of using it even though it’s not your first language, definitely a lot more accessible in terms of clarity for you
I just came up with this question and THX :)
i like when you use ASL. :) its been a while. can use it in next videos? please:) i am from . Australia and watching you use ASL helps me learn ASL better
Hey Rikki, I am hearing, but I am also Autistic (plus other physical disabilities). There are some of us in the Autistic community with auditory sensory issues, executive function problems, who are nonverbal completely or sometimes, and with language processing issues that are learning ASL or already use it as a tool. Some are deaf and some like me, are totally hearing.
Personally, because I am Autistic, (very beginning learner of ASL,) ASL has been this breakthrough in communication for me, as if something was unlocked inside my brain. For me, it feels like a more natural way to communicate. Verbal communication, just finding the words, is increasingly a struggle, from brain to mouth, expressing the idea in that way. ASL is like taking out the middle man.
I am not very active on TH-cam creatively these days, moreso on Instagram and my podcast. If you would ever be interested in this as a topic, I would love to collaborate.
I run a nonprofit called Frill-Ability, Inc. You can find us at www.frillability.org.
Thank you for the work that you do. It's an integral piece to the disability community.
As someone who has, except the few video I've seen from you, no experience or real knowledge of the deaf community or sign language, two questions came into my mind.
1. How much do mimics carry meaning? Are the face expressions part of the sign or just additional help to deliver the message?
2. As far as I understood, ASL stands for American Sign Language. How different is it to other sign languages? Do speakers(?) of different SL's understand each other to an extend or is it like a completely different language and two deaf persons would need a translator just like with English and any other language?
1. Facial expressions and other things, such as body language and position, are very much part of certain signs and do carry meaning.
2. Different countries have different sign languages and while they may have some similarities, people who use different ones do normally need interpreters just like people who speak different languages.
MissDatherinePierce For example: British sign language and als are two individual languages, however when spoken it's the same language only having different accents and some words that have different meaning. Same with DGS (deutsche Gebärdensprache), Austrian and Swiss People Do have a sign Language of Their own...
But as far as I'm concerned, and please do correct me if I'm wrong, there is an international sign language
People with different sign languages do seem to communicate with each other more easily, on average, people with different spoken languages, but that might not be so much because of sign as such. Deaf people have limited access to the majority language around them, and being in that situation forces you to develop great communicative skills to compensate -- knowing what things people do tend to understand, reworking what you wanted to say until it's in a form that you can say, using context to imply part of your meaning, using questions to bring things up that you can't say directly. It's an art, and the deaf practice it constantly.
The different signed languages are different languages, just as the different voiced languages are different languages. Just because the voiced language in different countries are the same does not mean their local signed languages are the same or even related to each other.
Facial expression is important in signed languages. It's much more than just expressing emotion. Often it has nothing to do with that. It's just part of the grammar. For example, in American Sign Language, different kinds of questions require your eyebrows to be up or down.
Totally love this, totally agree.
More ASL VIDEOS!!! I see improvement. MISS YA!
It's been too many years since I've interacted with Deaf, so my ASL is rusty but YOUR signs are so clear and easy to understand compared to most Deaf people. Also, the only reason I've Simcom'd is same as you; mixed company. Otherwise I can't stand it. ASL & English are totally different languages. I like speaking proper English and I like signing native ASL. (is that what you call the sign language that has no english syntax whatsoever?) Anywhoo- I've gotta make time and effort to circulate more.
Vocal performance major here. Just wanted to say that you are right. I have signed for years at times when my voice is damaged and think it is a good practice to learn ASL .
As an interpreter, I appreciate your non-voicing videos.
How long did it take for you to become an interpreter?
@@thetruth17 I wish I could give you a straight answer. Most Interpreter Training Programs (ITP) will last 2 - 4 years. But you are never done learning and being a better interpreter.
@@ASLTheatre That's what's up. I only started relearning back in October, so I guess I have a ways to go before even considering to be an interpreter. Thank you for your response.
I was expecting to say, "how am I supposed to understand other?"
Sometimes I simcom a sentence to give hearing people a clue about the topic. This way they don't worry.
Great video as always, Rikki. If anyone has a problem of you not voicing when signing, too bad. Every deaf person has their preferred means of communication and I have mine. I voice, but currently learning ASL.
Take care and be safe.
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Todd Fonder ditto I am a HOHer learning ASL too. Because I might not be hoh in a few years. Anyway in ASL mode as I call it. Always voice off. But it's hard when you are more advanced than others and you have to tell them what signs we are learning.
Yayyyy so early~ ❤
I also can speak and listen but I have a surgery a couple weeks ago. The doctors don't allow me to use voice at all for about 1-2 months. Now, I''m trying to learn ASL. That's not for my use in everyday life because others could not understand me through hand signs. However, I would like to use it with deaf persons in the future to help them and whatever. Actually, I'm from Thailand and also in Thailand right not. I know that ASL and Thailand's sign languange are different but ASL might be popular in the world in case of English. Thanks for your vids :D
I wish more people would learn ASL, period. When I'm in a loud situation, I'd rather sign than shout. A couple of years ago, I had a really bad case of laryngitis and found myself instinctively trying to sign to people before realizing that no, most aren't going to understand. What I'm saying is that it's an incredibly useful language even for hearing people and I wish it were more widely taught. That said, I get so little practice, I think I will need to take some classes to try and improve. I work not far at all from the American College for the Deaf, and they offer community courses, which I should look into.
Gah, what a babbly comment. Please excuse my wordiness and making it about me. I'mma blame the current sinus infection, but still ... sorry.
I can't believe people would be upset with you for not voicing during some videos. That'd be like: I am bilingual in Spanish and English. English is my first language, but sometimes I like to speak Spanish with other bilingual people because it is fun. And sometimes I'm around someone for whom English is their second language (or they don't speak much English if any) and so I switch to Spanish. What I almost never do is translate for myself. The only time I'd ever do that would be if there was a monolingual English speaker and a monolingual Spanish speaker in the same room and I was trying to communicate with both of them. I feel like it's the same with ASL. And, since it has a completely different grammatical structure than English, I'd imagine it's rather difficult to sign and speak simultaneously, no?
So I'm hearing and I know some ASL but I'm not great with it. It might help if you say in the title or something when a video is in ASL or not so I know if I need CC or not. Love you Rikki! :)
Good on you for using ASL even if you can speak. My one question is: What is SimCom? I've never heard of it, and I'm rather curious. Thanks heaps, and keep up the great work!
Brianna Wendell I've never seen simcom either. In suppose it's a shortening of simultaneous communication? Makes sense.
That it does
Yeah simultaneous communication, Rogan Shannon has a great video on Sim Com, worth a watch if you want to further understand it and the inherit problems it comes with.
I saw you in the other video and you were speaking. Can you speak and hear now still
I don't get why someone would even ask that. Can they not read captions?
They can. They're just either too ignorant use them because they just expect her to use her voice, or they're just too lazy and, again, expect her to use her voice.
sunburst223 It was because they truly wanted to know why.
Kandy Which is fair enough. I'm not really talking about people who are asking out of genuine curiosity. It never occurred to me to wonder why Rikki never talks verbally in her ASL videos, but I can see why some people might wonder that. What I'm more baffled by is people who ask out of some weird assumption that she does or has to talk verbally all the time simply because she's able to. To me, that would be like asking why I'm not speaking English because I can when I'm speaking Spanish.
Faith N Figures. I don't really get that mindset at all. As a hearing person who doesn't really personally know anyone who is deaf there's a lot I don't know about deafness and the deaf world, but I don't get why hearing people still have to automatically jump to the mindset that the world should always function the way they're used to. Though I guess when you're never exposed to stuff like this, it can be hard to comprehend.
Rikki Poynter I think that's a real shame that that's the case. Just because ASL isn't a verbal language doesn't mean it's not a valid form of communication. In fact, I think it would be very beneficial for hearing people to learn it, at least to a basic degree. I've been considering trying to learn it myself, actually. As for captions, I do get people disliking them. I'm not a huge fan of them myself, and if I don't need them to clarify what someone is saying, not watching something in a foreign language, or if I'm not with someone who needs them, I do prefer to have them off. They're really not that big of a deal, though. I wish people who don't need them would just learn to put up with them. Besides, I always think it's important to utilize your reading skills whenever possible.
Hey,
My daughter was born with profound hearing loss, which worsened over the years. She can still hear, and loves talking. She doesn't stop, and she refuses to sign. As a mom, I vowed to learn ASL, and give her every outlet that I could to make sure that she had success. Because she refuses to sign though it makes it really hard to practice ASL with her, and none of the rest of my family is learning because she isn't wanting to learn.
I have a deaf mentor that comes to my home, and I am learning vocab, and sentence structure, but feel completely inadequate when holding conversations with people in the deaf community so it makes me feel very isolated when I go to events because I'm trying to talk to my daughter, while signing and it gets to be difficult.
My question is, do you know of any other TH-camrs that use ASL solely? I am trying to get used to accents, and learn sentence structure further, and I love your videos and figure maybe if I can open up my channels that it will help me to eventually feel somewhat more comfortable with going to events.
Thank you in advance!
Yay, thank you so much for the info! I will be checking them out! You should do a video about deaf people not wanting to learn ASL and how they communicate with others if you haven't done so yet. My daughter's hearing loss is degenerative, and she may be fully deaf in the future so we want her to be fully prepared for that day. I can't imagine her not wanting to have a form of communication like ASL, and me not being able to be free from a language barrier.
Do you know of any online community information for different areas in the US for deaf events? I've asked my deaf mentor but she just moved into the area maybe a year ago, and doesn't know about any.
Okay, I am on facebook groups but I hadn't even thought about googling. Haha, I'm bad at technology! Thank you again, I really appreciate the information!
I guess ASL does come in handy when it hurts to talk, eh? PS: Get it...? Handy...? Sorry, you've probably heard that joke about a million times 😅😂 I had to
ASL is also handy for calling a cop an s.o.b. and not getting a night-stick in the teeth. That's supposing said cop isn't a child of a Deaf adult(s) or CODA ;)
Just a random unrelated question. Have you ever witnessed or experienced any hearing/deaf challenges when it comes to for example playing board games or playing cards?
TheCimbrianBull Hi I know this is question for Rikki but for my experience many times when play game Cranium. There's times need to hum song my friends (hearing) skip it . some charades also have some "sounds making guessing" in them but not hard to make in way everyone can enjoy and have better game experience:)
+MeggZ91
Thanks for the reply. I'm glad to know you're all able to find a solution.
TheCimbrianBull yeah me too. Sometimes can be difficult if in bigger groups if some people bot understand the change need for the game type but all it is . just having friends who can help educate that way everybody can enjoy. I had few times where had some troubles.
Many people have different experience with this. Its great question. Im happy to answer my experience.
Is the grammaer and sentence structure of ASL the same / similar to English? I only know a bit of German Sign Language and the sentence structure (and grammar) is very different to German, so I don't even know how I would speak german and sign at the same time.
I am very interested in learning ASL. If you could speak when you are signing, I can focus more on your signs rather than reading the words. I cannot see what the signs mean if I am reading the closed captioning. Not sure if this matters to you or not but it would be helpful for those of us trying to learn.
English and ASL are two different languages. SimCom is not to be used unless absolutely necessary like with a hearing person who does not sign in the group. I only SimCom during livestreams or the former example. I do not SimCom in videos when I’m using ASL.
As a deaf person, I'm constantly kinda being pushed toward learning sign, but as an Australian, there's only 14,000 people who know the local sign language (Auslan) - I'm kinda at the point where I'm like "what's the point of sign over say, texting or IMing?" and I can't get past it
Thanks for replying! I guess it sounds like a large number on its own, but it's 14,000 out of 24 million. I can see how it'd be a lot more fluid of a conversation if you didn't have to wait for the other person to read and respond, my biggest problem is the lack of other people who know it - I've met maybe 4 people who knew it, and that was at a deaf camp with about 12 other kids
May I ask what the sign is you use at the 2:29 minute mark is? You use it when you say “I won’t do it in a full asl video”. It looks like you are throwing something away or saying anyway, or something. I am learning asl now and I cannot figure out this sign! My hearing is starting to fail quickly and I want to learn now.
Can someone please explain what SimCom is? I've tried googling it but all I got was things for the Sims game and something about airplanes.
Basically talking while signing.
+XawesomeangelX
It's short for Simultaneous Communication which means signing and talking at the same time.
This is something I've always wondered. When people sign they tend to move their mouth in ways that look like words but that aren't actually the words they're signing. Does this add meaning/emphasis to the sign, or is it just facial expressions? I know that facial expressions are much more important and prominent in sign than in spoken language but it doesn't seem like just that? I dunno maybe I'm missing something. I'm trying to learn BSL and can't really find any info on this aspect of it!
Rikki Poynter Thanks so much! I'll definitely look into that :)
I see a lot of people SimCom at my college and on TV. Is it not accurate, or what makes it bad?
Thank you for these videos
Rikki Poynter that makes so much sense! Thanks!
wish you would have placed quotation marks around that question. I thought this was gonna be for the benefit of general public knowledge, rather than pertaining just to you.
This is a common experience amongst oral deafies and those of us who use both that the general public will learn from watching this video. 13.3k people now have this knowledge. Also, character limit.
@@rikkipoynter I see, well thank you. What I truly meant was not to undervalue this information. Rather I should have simply said, "I hoped this video was reasons non deaf persons should sign."
What is SimCom?
talking and signing at the same time.
@@rikkipoynter thank you for responding!!!
Is that a tattoo on your wrist?
I dislike speaking.