7. Questions and Responses

This week, I decided to watch a video about sentence structures of questions and answers in ASL. I chose to learn about this because I was feeling like that was the next step before I could have a conversation with someone. Something that I found to be confusing was that the sentence structures switch around. For example, instead of “what is your name?” it is “your name what you.” This is something that I think will take a lot of practice for me to remember. I felt slightly overwhelmed by the amount of vocabulary from this week, but the more I practice, the more comfortable I’ll be.

Two main types of questions:

  1. Wh-
    • Eyebrows go down
    • Lean forward
  2. Yes/no
    • Eyebrows go up
    • Lean forward