Love in any Language-Tutorial by Signs of Fun

From Leningrad to Lexington

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

Most people would not know the sign for Leningrad or Lexington unless they have lived in those areas, so the point of the lyrics is explained. FROM FAR-AWAY (in one direction, then another to show distance). The tongue movements have a purpose (if the children are NOT singing and ONLY signing the song). The tongue wag changes the sign from FAR to VERY FAR.

we know the sting of pain

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

Pain: Twist your wrists opposite of each other. Experience: Your fingertips brush the cheekbone to the jaw line. WE-ALL PAIN EXPERIENCE

We love to laugh

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

Everyone laughs, but the song discusses how we LOVE to laugh, so we show a true laugh, a gut laugh.

Yet look how we're the same

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

SURPRISE! WE SAME.

We teach the young our differences

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

In ASL, the topic (who we teach) comes first. YOUNG WE TEACH DIFFERENT DIFFERENT.

fluently spoken here.

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

What I get from the song is that the singer is saying SHE speaks love, so that's what I signed. ASL HERE, ALL-of-ME.

all the world will hear

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

Again, with the "hearing." Instead of hearing with the ears, we typically sign HEAR at the eyes. But this song is not just about hearing about love but actually paying attention to it by hearing with the heart. I kept the word "WORLD" in there because I wanted to try and stay close to the song's words. WORLD ALL HEAR-HEART-EYES

And once we learn to speak it

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

Speaking love is not what we need to do; we need to understand and appreciate it with our heads and hearts (that whole concept of the show, not tell). PAH! WE UNDERSTAND-at-HEART, at-HEAD

never apart.

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

STILL....pull out your "shaka" hands and swoop them in, showing that love continues on. As stated before, if you can show it, do so. LOVE-TO-ALL, LET-GO (or DISCONNECT)? (shake head NO), STILL CONNECT.

pulls us all together

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

There's no "pulling on people." We connect with each other. That is how we show love, by connecting with one another (when you do it circularly, it connects everyone instead of just the one person across from you). If you take your ILY "butterflies" outward, then your hands will come together to connect (middle fingers to thumbs) CONNECT-ALL

Straight from the heart

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

Again, if you can show it, do so instead of tons of words. Imagine opening your chest to expose your heart full of love and ILYs flutter out like butterflies to everyone around you. OPEN-CHEST, ILY-to-audience

Love in any language

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

Love in any language in ASL translates to: LOVE LANGUAGE DIFFERENT DIFFERENT DIFFERENT (again, in rhythm).

Our (hearts are still the same)

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

For some reason, many people are confused on how to sign the word OUR. Picture the palm of your hand scooping everyone standing in front of you and pull them to your other shoulder. Now make it a lot smaller sign. Smiles.

And though the words are all unique

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

WORD (of course) is done with the rhythm of the song. TRUE-BIZ WORD WORD WORD SPECIAL

As the lands from which they came

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

ASL does not follow English order and if there is a visual way of explaining English words, we take it (Don't throw out a bunch of words if you can show the meaning visually). Here, the word location done three times can visually show we are discussing different lands (again, with the rhythm of the song). LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION, DIFFERENT DIFFERENT DIFFERENT.

The sounds are all as different

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

Since you are doing this in ASL, Deaf people do not hear sounds, so we point out the words instead of the sounds. Also, it shows the rhythm of the song by signing it with the beat. WORDS WORDS WORDS DIFFERENT DIFFERENT DIFFERENT.

I love you

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

The way most people know how to sign I love you...

Ani ohev otcha

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

This is long enough that it will help the children practice their fingerspelling, I l-o-v-e y-o-u.

Ya ti-bya lyu blyu

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

Russian, for I love you. In this instance, I showed another way to say I love you in ASL. IOLY stands for I ONLY love you. The pointer finger makes a circle (representing the sign for ONLY) whilst also showing the other letters.

Te'amo

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

Spanish word for I love you. In this song, I used I really love you. Similar to ILY, the pointer and middle finger shows the letter R, which stands for REALLY in this instance, so it would be IRLY (yes, this is the ASL way to say I really love you).

Je t'aime

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

Je t'aime is French for "I love you." American Sign Language stems from French Sign Language. In this song, we use the commonly known ILY, the pinky, which represents the letter I, the thumb and index finger, which represents the letter L, and the Y is represented by the pinky and the thumb.

A quick demo of the song....

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 03:28:53 UTC

The farmer loves his land

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 05:35:14 UTC

When someone signs LOVE, as at the beginning of the song, the word LOVE is similar to a hug. You can hug people but cannot hug land, candy, or things. So, instead, you show love by kissing your fist. Three clips put together: FARMER ALL KISS-FIST LAND

all get misty-eyed

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 05:40:05 UTC

Rhetorical questions are a Deaf thing. There are many ways to show people crying, so I gave you a few options. Why: your thumb and pinky are the digits that do not move. The rest of the fingers bend. Sometimes, only the middle finger moves. There is no difference between the signs. It's more of a sign with the rhythm thing. CRY WHY?

Oh, maybe when we realize how much there is to share

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 05:50:25 UTC

(Remember what I said about PAH!? It's here again. Kids must also mouth the word PAH! if they aren't singing the song). MAYBE, PAH! (look above for ALL UNDERSTAND-HEART-HEAD) SHARE SHARE CAN

We'll find too much in common to pretend it isn't there

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 06:04:23 UTC

This may not make sense to a hearing person, but it is full-on ASL. ALL THINK SAME can be found above in the padlet. RECOGNIZE ILY ILY (back and forth) ILY-to-audience

Tho' the rhetoric of government

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 06:14:20 UTC

We all know how the government tries to persuade us to believe what THEY want us to believe. They tell us THEIR narrative, their message of what they hold true, and then use flowery words to convince us they are right.

There's no misinterpreting the language of the heart

SignsofFun — 2025-02-21 06:23:52 UTC

HEART TRUE, SEE, UNDERSTAND-HEART-HEAD PAH!

True-biz

SignsofFun — 2025-02-23 09:08:26 UTC

"True-biz" is a Deaf phrase, similar to "seriously" or "actually," and is used quite often in the community. It looks almost like you are signing a combination of TRUE and WORK, but the WORK slides across instead of tapping the back of the hand.

No matter (doesn't matter)

SignsofFun — 2025-02-23 09:18:48 UTC

The point being made? No matter that we are all different, our hearts are the same, so that's what we sign. NO-MATTER, OUR HEARTS SAME-AS-EVERYONE'S.

same

SignsofFun — 2025-02-23 09:27:35 UTC

The pinky is pointing to you and the thumb is pointing to me. We both are just alike. This can be used for almost anything. We both are girls-SAME. We both like chocolate-SAME, etc.

heart

SignsofFun — 2025-02-23 09:28:46 UTC

One way to sign heart.

may keep us (group us together)

SignsofFun — 2025-02-23 18:17:51 UTC

GROUP GROUP GROUP (set up three different sets of groups with the rhythm of the song) because soon you are going to keep them apart (separate them)

worlds apart (separate us)

SignsofFun — 2025-02-23 18:20:30 UTC

self explanatory

flatter-you

SignsofFun — 2025-02-23 18:30:07 UTC

LATTER: Think of your pointer finger (CL:1) as you, the individual (standing tall) and then use your other hand to "paint" the government's words on you (to convince you they are right). GOVERNMENT MESSAGE CL:1 FLATTER

Recognize ILY

SignsofFun — 2025-02-23 18:57:47 UTC

We will recognize that we all have love in our hearts to share with everyone.

same

SignsofFun — 2025-02-23 19:10:22 UTC

The pinky is pointing to you and the thumb is pointing to me. We both are just alike. This can be used for almost anything. We both are girls-SAME. We both like chocolate-SAME, etc.

Pah!

SignsofFun — 2025-02-24 02:26:09 UTC

PAH! is another one of those Deaf words used often. It's kind of like saying, "Finally!"

All of us/we all

SignsofFun — 2025-02-24 03:32:20 UTC

Self-explanatory

fluent/fluently

SignsofFun — 2025-02-24 04:33:48 UTC

There are signers; then there are fluent signers. This shows you, the signer, are fluently speaking love.

Young

SignsofFun — 2025-02-24 05:10:30 UTC

As in the video, remember to go up with your fingertips.

All of us/we all

SignsofFun — 2025-02-24 05:13:00 UTC

Self-explanatory

teach

SignsofFun — 2025-02-24 05:20:08 UTC

Think of taking the knowledge that is in your brain and grasp it in your fingertips to try and give that information to the "young" referenced in the song. Meaning, if you are teaching adults, you would take that information to someone your height.

to dream our dreams

SignsofFun — 2025-02-24 05:44:46 UTC

"To dream our dreams" means that we love to dream and imagine wonderful things in our lives (dream our dreams). WE GUT-LAUGH, DREAM, IMAGINE

Daddy

SignsofFun — 2025-02-24 07:04:48 UTC

One daddy is this sign. If you want to make it all daddies, you would add the "all of us" sign.

to give their daughter's hand.

SignsofFun — 2025-02-24 07:08:51 UTC

Daddies don't give away their daughters' hands. They give their daughter away at a wedding and then the daughter moves away. DADDY ALL CRY WHY? DAUGHTER MARRY, MOVE-AWAY.

how much there is to share

SignsofFun — 2025-02-24 07:47:26 UTC

Share is a fun, visual sign. The bottom hand...picture a bunch of M&Ms on the nondominant hand. Your dominant hand sweeps half of the M&Ms to you and the other half to your friend, showing how to share. Then add the word CAN at the end, thus modifying the sentence to help the person realize the ability to share.