Brooke Leidholt

I don't know about anyone else, but it seems like everything is super busy this time of year. With that being said Maci and I chose to refresh our sign language skills this week. We reviewed most of what we have learned thus far. I found this to be much need because I'm having a hard time keeping all of the signs straight. This week we collaborated with Brianna and what she has learned. We found that we were signing some things differently, but it mostly was just the difference in sources. The three of us also came to  the conclusion that when signing you don't need most of the little words like "to" and "is". This made life a little difficult because we haven't figured out when they are used or not. We have defaulted to leaving them out most of the time. I'll clarify about the shortening of phrases a little. In English we would normally say "my name is Brooke". However, when signing you sign my, name, and then spell out your name. ...

Well to be quite frank, Maci and I did not get to accomplish as much as we had hoped. This week has been super chaotic for us both and unfortunately sign language was drown out by homework. We managed to work in class today to figure out so greetings. We learned things like hello, goodbye, my name is Brooke, and what are you doing. One thing I thought was pretty interesting is how there are multiple ways to sign the same thing. For instance, when you sign a double letter when you spell out a word (like the two "o"s in Brooke) there are two ways. You can make the sign two times, or you can make the sign and slide it horizontally away from you. Another thing Maci and I encountered was different ways to say a phrase. Brianna was showing us how she learned to say "hello, my name is"  but it was a little different than what we had been doing. The video we watched did not incorporate the "is" into the phrase, but hers did. We will now be looking into which ver...

This week has been fairly hectic, and I didn't get to practice as much as I would have liked to. Maci and I did get to spend some time together learning adjectives though. We picked up colors, and other adjectives like short, tall, beautiful, expensive, old, young, etc. We are beginning to pick it up faster, but remembering everything we have learned up to this point is a little difficult. Because there are only so many hand signals you can make, a lot of the signs are very similar. I am having a little difficulty remembering the movements, and am a little worried I am all wrong. An example of similar signs are cute and sweet. The only difference is that one has a longer motion. When we start using sentences I am very worried Maci and I will say something totally wrong. Next week Maci and I want to continue on with this topic. So far, we have been learning the individual sections in sign language. I think it may be helpful to learn how to put a sentence together. It may also be...