00:07 This is a game to test your fingerspelling receptive skills.
00:12 Often nouns are spelt in Auslan such as names of places or people.
00:19 You will learn to recognise patterns in the way that words appear on the hand.
00:24 Just like with reading English you do not focus on each letter but the shape and pattern that the word creates.
00:32 The first time the word is spelt it will be at an average pace
00:37 and will then be repeated only slower.
00:42 See if you can catch the words at the average pace!
00:46 As the fingerspelling decreases in speed the patterns become less clear.
00:55 The pattern of some fingerspelt words end up becoming the sign itself.
01:01 These have been modified to be produced easily.
01:04 Wednesday is signed by running the W and D together, removing the E,
01:10 and Thursday uses the middle finger for the T of TH.
01:16 Some signs are even further from their original pattern
01:20 such as 'how' and 'for.'