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The importance of time coding your question about the contents of a YouTube video:


It is common for ASL students to have questions about the content they see in ASL videos on YouTube. This is particularly true of ASLU-related videos because most of the instructional videos (at the "billvicars" channel) are designed to use slides rather than full captioning (since I want your eyeballs on the signing rather than the captioning -- plus the ability to "figure signs out from context-based guessing" is an important skill to develop during the language learning process).

If you have questions about specific signs or phrases you see in a YouTube video and decide to pose your question in the comments section of the video it is best to include the time code of the point in the video at which you have a question.

For example: ##:## (fill in the numbers and include the colon.)  YouTube automatically turns time codes into links to the specified location in the video. That way people can click on the link and jump to the exact place in the video to which you are referring.

I am happy to answer a few questions about ] video content from time to time depending on my teaching and project schedules -- but it really helps me to help you better if you'll include a time code so that I don't have to throw away  time looking through a video to try to answer a question such as, "What did he sign after the word 'desk'?" 

Want to increase your chances of a timely reply?  Include a specific time-code link when asking content creators about video content.
 

 

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