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Welcome again to LearnSigns.com. This is lesson number 7.
Lesson number 7: Fingerspelling Practice
When you practice your fingerspelling you will find
there are certain letter combinations that go together. And you will see them often.
Over and over again.
In this lesson I'm going to fingerspell some words for you
and I'm going to have you fingerspell some words for me for practice.
You will see these letter combinations come up regularly.
Now this is a small sample of the many thousands of words that you can spell.
And there are lots of different consonant blends and tri-letter combinations.
Four-letter combinations.
So these are just a small sample of that. But we are going to practice some of these.
I will sign, I will fingerspell a couple of them and then you figure out
what the word is and I will tell you afterwards.
Now remember when you fingerspell you want to keep your palm facing
the person to whom you are speaking. So you keep your palm out--for the most part.
There are a couple of letters where your palm will turn in.
But for the most part your palm's going to be out. You want to keep your hand still.
You don't want to bounce. Keep your hand still.
Now there are some letter combinations that will slide,
or there will be a slight bounce with the fingers.
But it is not going to be a bouncing of the hand either in and out
or up and down or to the side.
Then you want to spell with a smooth rhythm.
You don't want to pause in the middle of a word.
Now remember to help with your thinking you want to spell words as whole words.
So try to spell the word as a word and not just as individual letters. Alright?
Here's the first word.
Again.
Blab. Blab.
Did you get that? Blab.
The next one. Another BL combination.
Whoops! I misspelled that.
There you go. Black.
Black.
Ok. Another one.
This is a BR combination.
Brad. Brad.
Another BR combination.
There it is again.
Brave. Brave.
Many words end with the letter E. You will get used to seeing that.
Another one. A CH combination.
Chain. Chain.
Remember to try to read it as a whole word as well.
Another CH combination.
Chair. Now, I know these may look fast to you,
but the more you practice the easier this will become.
And these really are not that fast. You will see much faster spelling as you go along.
Now I will give you a word and you will spell for me.
Obviously I can't see you, so I will have to trust you on this one.
I think I can do that.
Clam. Clam.
Now, think Clam the word not C L A M. Clam.
Alright? It is Clam.
Another one. Class. Class. The children go to class.
Now we have a double letter here. We can slide that S, the double S.
Or you can do it like this. Class and do a little finger wiggle there.
Again, not a bounce with your hand, or up and down.
It is a slight little bounce with your fingers. If you want to think of it as a bounce.
Or you can slide it across. Some letters slide better than they do opening the hand.
You will have to get a feel for that.
Flag. Flag. You are spelling this for me. Flag.
Alright. Flag.
Flag.
Place.
Place. Put the book in its place.
Place.
Notice how the palm stays out as much as possible.
The hand doesn't bounce and you spell smoothly. Place.
Ok. Here is another word for you. The word is this...
Plate. Plate.
Another word.
There's a double letter there.
I think I spelled Glass the second time and it was supposed to be Grass. Grass.
Another GR combination.
Grid. These words come from a list I found online that has a bunch of consonant blends.
I will have a link to that and the show notes of www.LearnSigns.com/7 and
that will show you where these words came from.
It is a big long list of words you can practice.
Good practice words because there are a lot of common letter combinations
and that will help you.
Alright.
That was a little bit faster.
It was a three letter combination that you will see commonly. Shrank.
SHR. Shrank.
Another one with that combination.
Shrill. Shrill.
And then another common S combination is SPR.
Spray. Spray.
And then another one.
Spring. Spring.
Now you also will have four-letter combination. You will see combinations a lot.
The more words you practice, the more you try to spell different words,
you will start to see those combinations and they will get to where
they are easier to do. Don't let fingerspelling scare you.
Here is another combination. A four-letter combination TION.
Did you get that? Sound it out as you go along.
ed - u - cat - i - on. Education. Education.
One of my favorite words to spell:
Did you get it?
Dictionary. Dictionary.
Another one.
Having trouble doing these without moving my lips.
I want to move my lips to do it because I say the word as I do it.
But that tells you what the word is...oops. I got messed up.
Absolution.
Alright? So practice your fingerspelling.
This is LearnSigns.com/7. LearnSigns.com/7 will get you to this lesson.
It will have a list of these words on there.
Plus there is a link to a larger list where these words came from.
So you can practice through that list of words.
www.LearnSigns.com/7
Thank you for watching.
Keep practicing your fingerspelling and we will get back to more
vocabulary words in the next lesson.