I love my mom. She knows about my research to make Nightingale, and how I’m trying to study Braille and Sign Language to make the story as authentic as possible. So she went and got me two books on learning Sign Language! <3 It’s actually a lot easier than I thought. I’m naturally a kinetic learner (I learn best through physical motions and activities) so I’m really having fun teaching myself the basics.
My new blind friend who I met at ASIANIM told me one could learn Braille in half an hour. I think he’s overestimating my abilities, but I do think it’s not that much harder than learning Hiragana or Katakana, which both took me less than a week. He also showed me some cool things when we took the train and subway back to Brussels, like how to feel for the raised lines in the station that tell a blind person where to find points of interest, such as maps, stairs, platforms, and information booths. And I always thought those stripes were for decoration… Ah, you learn new things every day.
Also, while in NYC, my parents saw Carrie Fisher do a live comedy show. I thought the Playbill poster image was very amusing:
Really cool done! never had thought sign language was that much fun to watch,(let alone understand) but then again, never had use for it altrough i might be maybe an idea to use it for the Polish workers on my work, since like only 1 guy speaks dutch and polish(couse he’s married to one) most of the time its making gestures or using the little dutch they understand. also have a good time there!
Hey! Love the comic! Loyal reader here. Just wanted to comment on your sign language. Was that ASL? If so, the sign you used for N actually is H or so my professor told me. I’m taking ASL here at Western Michigan and learning a bit so this post caught my eye. Also, no reason to use is. The appropriate structure would be “my name ELENA.” A good reference we have been using is http://www.aslpro.com. This is all assuming you’re using ASL. Sorry to be a sign-nazi but I was watching you and saw that as “my name is ELEHA” and was severely confused
. Keep up the amazing work!
As a hard of hearing person, I totally admire that you’re learning sign language to be as authentic to your future comic! I’m looking forward to seeing the process unfold. If you have any questions about how a deaf person would sign a line, I’d be more than happy to help!
It’s cool that you’re learning sign language. I’m taking my second semester of Sign Language at the local community college (ASL 2!). One thing you may want to check is your “N” which looks like an “H” to me, but then I am used to American Sign Language and I know there’s differences between that and those of foreign countries. In ASL as far as I know an “N” is signed with your index and middle finger over your thumb, and an “H” has those two fingers extended– “G” has only your index finger pointing out.
Currently we’re watching these videos about a deaf family (“Meet the Bravos”– it’s *hilarious* how overacted it is) in my class and moving away from direct signing, which means that one signs everything as a speaking person would say it. But ASL tends to put adjectives after nouns like in Spanish, leave words out entirely, and put negatives at the end of sentences.
A good website to visit is ASLPro.com, which has a lot of videos and thousands of words! There are several dictionaries: normal every day dictionary, religious dictionary, conversational sign language dictionary, and ASL for BABIES, believe it or not.
That also happens to be the cover of her autobiography
I just wanted to let you know that I adore this comic. I was also very amused to see the Sign Language post. I agree with agnespterry about the n usually its’ a palm out sign in American Sign Language so it looked more like an h to me, also you don’t have to add in the word is! When you use propositions like that it’s something called see sign which is a little different than official sign language.
I’m glad to see that my class wasn’t the only one to use “Meet the Bravos’ I could never help but laugh at them, they’re so silly! ASL-Pro is amazing it has almost every word you’d ever need.
Can’t wait for the next update! Hope you have Fun with ASL ^^
Ahh, I remmber sign language….. some anyways. Had a teach in …… 2 or 3rd grade who taught some. I only remember how do to my name.
Also, I stll wondered why X and R were what they were. If anything, thse two should have been switched.
angestperry is right, in american sign language.
i had to learn how to spell words in sign language 4 yrs ago, but it was american. hurmmm.
otherwise i love your art andddd i haven’t gotten to say that yet.
As a deaf person, I’m intrigued. And, yeah, ASL has pretty different grammar from English. I don’t see actual deaf people using “is” that much. Also, your N’s actually a H. Pretty good otherwise.
I’ve been signing for about two and a half years (ASL). Do they use FSL over in Amsterdam? I know there is a separate dutch sign language (NGT), that hasn’t been officially regocnized yet (although more and more people are using it lately). I know that french and american sign language are very similar (since ASL was actually developed from FSL, which is why the sentence structure follows that of latin languages). Two sites that I used a lot for learning ASL were aslpro.com, and http://www.lifeprint.com. signingsavvy.com is also good (as you can look up signs by hand shape, not just words), but the navigation is confusing.
Yeah, I was wonder if you were using ASL or another version of Sign Language. Either way i believe its awesome going cuz i’m also learning this semester in school and this class is the one that makes still being in school worth it for me. ^^ Keep up the good work
O: Isn’t N thumb under index&middle ?
Oh well, I wish I knew more sign language ! ; 0;