That is so cool. It is crazy to think what something can do to someone. I am crying. That inspires me to continue my own sign language.

Agree!

Because she labeled it as ASL... By saying she is signing a song in ASL (when clearly it’s not) it’s disrespectful to the Deaf community. I would encourage this young lady to spend some time within the Deaf community to better understand the language and culture.

Thank you so much for your comment, Cheyanne😭 You are actually the sweetest human being! I am praying for the entirety of the DCP right now, and am getting SO excited to spread light while I'm there! This is going to be such a great journey and I can't wait to take it! 💕

Also I’m doing DCP Fall 18! Let’s sign together!! ❤️

This is so awesome!! I love that you're learning ASL too! We should DEFINITELY sign together! I'm currently working on some Disney songs😄 When is your arrival date?!

boogeronmyfinger I’m arriving 8/13!

If you want to learn ASL this isn't it. This is SEE which is Sign Exact English. It's not the same or proper. Most people that use SEE are Deaf learning speech. Like Choclear Implant people. It's a transition from ASL.

@@cristinademoya8218 agreed. but, it's a start!:)

It's not an interpretation and it's not PSE, or ASL. It's some sort of botched SEE.

You also signed makeout instead of make. Not trying to be picky, but just trying to help you on your ASL journey loved the video though you did a great job.

Sarah B really I was taught that was how you sign make. How do you sign make then. I know ASL is different in every state and even county

Julie Mac it is sign language with ASL signs. She’s doing her best in look forward to your videos.

An Aspie's POV This is such a great story!!! I'm SO excited to get to Disney and be able to create magic in a new way I'd never thought of before through ASL. This comment has made my day, thank you so much for sharing! Have you made any progress toward your dream?!😁💕

not right now unfortunately. i'm in a tiny town in west texas with no interpreting program. looking into online courses with Gallaudet but for the time being, just trying to keep my ASL from getting rusty by interpreting as much as possible for the Deaf population at work. if i hadn't come to this tiny town though, i would never have had my surgery because we'd been pushing for a face mri for years and all the doctors back home said it was nuts. the doctor here took one look at the mri and said that he didn't know if the surgery would help my hearing but it needed to be done. when i woke up from surgery, the first thing i said was that he talked funny (texas accent, lol). he laughed and said, i guess it worked. my brother actually just had the same surgery last week. hoping his worked as well (it should have considering his hearing loss was only about half of mine).

Michele Kasmore I was about to say the same thing. LoL

I was wondering.

This isn't even "Exact English". Many of the motions are just gestures, not signs.

@@tiffdodge5233 point is it's not ASL. Sadly many of us who are Deaf looking for good videos of signing to songs is hard. So often the list of songs is full of people not using ASL but usually using SEE or PSE.

Same I just showed my ASL teacher today

Carol ASL what’s the difference between ASL and PSE?

Hi! PSE stands for "pidgin signed english" and is a combination of ASL vocabulary and english grammar. While ASL has its own grammatical structure like SOV (Subject-object-verb, ex BOY BALL THROW = the boy threw the ball), PSE follows english word order . If I said anything incorrect please let me know!

ASL is also concepts not words. Like when she's signing "I don't care" she's signing the physical activity of taking care of something, that's how you sign things like "I raised a rabbit" or "I take care of children/ I babysit"

@MrDancemonster I meant you're taking the concept of the English. Like you're not taking the actual English word and doing the sign for that you're taking the concept behind the word. That's how I was taught at least

It annoyed me when she signed babysit instead of I don’t care but I love the video

No she was not. This isn't even ASL. She has no idea what she is doing and it's very, VERY disrespectful to the Deaf Community.

Brian Hett she signed “bitch” as “be” in that sentence.

It's not PSE, either.

I LOVE WU!!! (see what I did there?! 😏 I'm lame, I know)

boogeronmyfinger oh goodness hahahah 😂😂

I agree.... ASL signs in English order is NOT true ASL

I can definitely do this! I"ll put it on my list!! 🤗

Thank you for the request!!

YAY! 🤗Thank you so much!!

yeah no problem =)

MrDancemonster yes! I was about to say the same thing. Still lots to learn especially about being conceptually accurate. Please don’t teach people this.

No she is not awesome. This isn't ASL.

​@Kyrah Young I AM A NATIONALLY CERTIFIED ASL INTERPRETER! AND THIS IS NOT ASL!! LABELING THIS ASL IS EXTREMELY DISRESPECTFUL AND OFFENSIVE TO THE DEAF COMMUNITY! THIS IS THEIR LANGUAGE AND THEY DO NOT LIKE IT WHEN SOMEONE LABELS THE THINGS AS ASL BECAUSE THEY ARE BUTCHERING THEIR LANGUAGE IN A WORLD THEY ALREADY HAVE TROUBLE COMMUNICATING IN. AND YES, I SHOULD DISH OUT MY OPINION, BECAUSE I KNOW FIRST HAND HOW THE DEAF COMMUNITY FEELS ABOUT THIS VERY THING, ALONG WITH INTERPRETERS. SHE HAS NOT HAD ANY FORMAL TRAINING, AS IT IS EASY TO SPOT AND AS AN INTERPRETER , POART OF MY OATH IS TO PROTECT THE LANGUAGE AT ALL COSTS. SO YOU NEED TO STEP BACK BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. FURTHERMORE, SHE WAS MOUTHING THE LYRICS, WHICH IS... NUMBER 1 -- CONSIDERED IMPROPER NUMBER 2 --- SHE IS MOUTHING ENGLISH LYRICS NUMBER 3 --- THE OUTFIT THAT SHE WORE IS INCREDIBLY DISTRACTING. NUMBER 4 --- AND IF SHE HAD ANY FORMAL TRAINING SHE WOULD KNOW ALL OF. THIS WAS "GREAT" PLEASE. SHE BUTCHERED THEIR LANGUAGE AND CALLED IT ASL. VERY OFFENSIVE.

@Kyrah Young the proper attire to sign ASL is a solid background, no jewelry, preferred long sleeves of a solid dark color. Again, you know nothing about this.

@Kyrah Young Ever heard of typos or are you perfect all the time? Sounds like you're a hypocrite.

If you like it then you should put a ring on it 😉

Åmëťhÿśt Łòvēr ฅ'ω'ฅ when you sign asl the order you say things is very different. Like the way you form sentences is different. It’s kind of like if someone was speaking English but they said, “Park I’m going to” instead of “I’m going to the park.” That’s why she is saying it’s “English based” because the way she is forming her sentences is based off the exact wording of the sound.

@Alekzandra Stewart ASL is it's own distinct language which has preserved through QUITE a lot of oppression and forced influence from spoken language, but it is *not* just English in a visual form. Facial expressions are half of the grammar, ASL matches *concepts* instead of words, and there is a HEAVY use of what are called classifiers (which show the relation of one word to another, and are used because of the visual, non-linear nature of sign.) In this video, for example, she says I DARK (close eyes) TO SEE, where TO here is used for direction in SEE (signed exact English). In ASL, this sentence could be interpreted a number of ways. One of my favourite conceptual matches is along the lines of CLOSE-EYES (move up to forehead) OPEN-MIND UNDERSTAND. That's an example of more conceptual signing. Another example would be... ,,Through where no-one has been before." Here, it's referencing experience. Something nobody has experienced before. Or... ,,I think of what the world could be." She signs BE, which doesn't really exist in ASL (to be verbs are not used in ASL, only in SEE or for verbatim English translation). One way to interpret that line is THINK WORLD TRANSITION DREAM dream-SAME-world... Meaning, thinking of how the real would could become like that which the singer dreams of. ,,A million dreams are keeping me awake-" DREAM++ THINK OBSESS CL:CC(awake-all-night). They're not keeping (preserving) someone awake, so... That! Plus... A world we can design. DESIGN as signed in this video is more to design on paper or such. MAKE-UP/IMAGINE would probably fit better, as the world being designed is really being thought up (dreamt about) rather than being drawn up. Are you getting (conceptually: understanding) that? ASL is a rich, beautiful language independent of English. If you're curious to see a more conceptually accurate (and more ASL) interpretation of A Million Dreams, you should check out some other interpretations. One I like is from MB Interpreting here on KZfaq. You'll see a huge difference.

@@freyja9468 thank you for saying that--- some people don't use their heads.

@@freyja9468 I came looking for just this comment, so thanks. It really isn't ASL, and it's conceptually confusing just because the signs she's using to match the words don't work that way. These are idioms that need to be represented in a physical, visual way, not directly translated. What she's doing is like translating "running nose" to literally a nose running. And especially thank you for a recommendation of a true ASL translation!

PSE and SEE are not interchangeable terms. It is not PSE or ASL and it's some sort of botched gibberish of SEE. It's horrible and so disrespectful to the Deaf Community.

Alisha Hill I can see if I can put something together for you!! It may not be exactly perfect for kids, but maybe for use by an instructor who then can learn themselves and helps the kids! I'll see what I can come up with😊

TheDailySign does asl covers and videos that breakdown what she is signing too :)

Not a great plan it is not ASL it is closer to SEE, and she is signing B*tch for the word "be" in the song, ASL does not have "b" verbs, I do not think you want your 3rd graders signing the bad word. She also uses no facial expressions. I would look for a different resource.

Time + Topic + Comment + Referent! I'm learning! :)

Mathew Grey what does that mean

I don’t mean to be offensive but why is it that people who are LEARNING ASL are constantly being told ‘good attempt’ or ‘That’s proper English’? Can we stop telling folks they’re wrong because technically its not. Just because it’s too English-y. I’m gonna try to be as gentle in saying this only because I am strongly agitated by this. I am a non-Spanish speaking American but I took Spanish in school. I retained the largely relevant phrases and utilize them for work. I’m a CNA. Now I just know the generalized phases taught in a Spanish book that uses the proper formation of the language not casual and of course my clients get a kick out of it and correct me to a more casual way of saying it. But with ASL I see such negative comments about the people sharing their interpretations of ASL they learned ( again they probably have been taught the formal way not casual. Which is TOO ENGLISHY). Though people may say keep trying you can’t say ‘good attempt but keep trying’ and not make someone feel less discouraged. That’s like telling someone you’re not ugly but you’re almost pretty. I started learning asl from a person who was fluent with it because they had a deaf child. It’s a hard time to remember all the signs and stuff. So I was quite impressed with the video.