Genius Hour Project

  Welcome back to my Blog! This is week four of my Genius Hour project and this week I finally started learning gestures in sign language. I can say that I feel confident about some of the signs I have learned this week and I can finally start to sign some short sentences (albeit rather slowly). However, I still have difficulty understanding signing when its being down in normal speed, I definitely need the other person to sign slowly, so I can recognize the gestures and have time to process what is being signed. Learning process This week I have been watching Bill Vicars Lessons to learning sign language and not going to lie I kind of wish I had learned the alphabet first. He uses the alphabet a lot in his videos and I am just sitting there lost as to what he is signing with the alphabet. On the positive side I have learned some of the letters. I know the letters, a, b, s, l and o. B and O I mainly know because when he would ask for his student to sign out a name, I would sign "

Welcome Back!! This week my goal was to do some research to gain some background knowledge on what exactly sign language is, as well as find some great resources and tools that would help me in learning sign language.   After doing some research and looking through and reviewing many websites and apps, I finally found some resources that will best help me to learn sign language.  But first I'll start with what I learned and what strategy is best suited for me. Sign Language Sign language , is a natural language that has the same linguistic properties like any spoken language. I will specifically be learning American Sign Language (ASL) as it is more commonly used in North America, and since Canada is located in North America this would be more beneficial to me :) ASL is a completely separate language from English, it has it's own pronunciations, word orders and word formations. ASL is expressed by both the movements of the hands and the face. This was very interesting to me as

  Hello everyone and welcome to my Blog! My name is Jasman Nagra and I am currently in the Concurrent Education Program at Brock University. My teachables are biology and chemistry. I don't think I have ever written a blog before so this is pretty new to me, but it seems interesting and fun so I am excited to see where this blog will go! The topic I have chosen for my Genius Project is to learn sign language. I remember trying (where I would try for a day and give up) to learn it in elementary and middle school. I was interested in learning sign language when I was younger  because I remember that in the agenda's that we were given, there would be a page dedicated to showing the alphabet in sign language. I always thought it would be cool to learn it, but it was difficult as some of the signs looked the same. My interest was peaked again when I watched  A Quiet Place  and  The Silence . It would be a very useful skill to know in case we have aliens that are sensitive to sound o