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From Quick Guide: Sign Language 101

Summary: Learn how to sign above, below, on, off, in, and out in sign language with American Sign Language (ASL) tips in this free online sign language video tutorial clip.

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benshushan said

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on 10/30/2008 Does Melissa Schenk have a complete DVD of ASL for sale ?

I am done with the first 15 lessons in just one day.

I need impute.

Thanks, Joe B.

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"Hello, my name is Melissa and on behalf of Expert Village, today we are going to be learning some basic signs; words and phrases in sign language. Now, what I've done in each of the clips is picked about 5 or 6 different words. It's very important when you first start learning sign language; one, to know your alphabet, a lot of phrases or words come from the alphabet so it's important to know your ABCs. We have that in previous clips available on Expert Village. So, know your ABCs and know your letters and numbers, your numbers, your 1-2-3s. So, I thought I'd start off with some opposites here. It's also important to keep in mind when you are learning sign language to learn between maybe 5-10 words a day. Anything more than that will be difficult to retain. Five is a good number. If you really want to push yourself though, you are going to have to push yourself every day before we get into phrases or you will begin to forget. Think back to when you were a kid when you were first learning how to spell and how to write. You could only learn a couple of words a day. So let's start off with some opposites here. We have 'above' and 'below'. So if we take our hand 'above'. So you want to take your right hand, if you are right-handed and you basically circle the hand to show that something is above. Same as, then again, 'below'. You can either circle your hand underneath here or you can take your hand and single 'below' like there is something beneath an object here. So 'above' and 'below' or 'below'. Again, 'on' and 'off' now, keep your hand out here and we'll take this hand and we'll put it on, 'on'. 'Off' I'm sure you can figure out, 'off', the opposite, 'off'. Let's try in and out then. 'In' you want to cup your hand into a circle here and you're going to take these four fingers and put them in, 'in'. And 'out' of course is the opposite of 'in'. So you are going to take those four fingers and take them out, 'out'. So if we review these six opposites, basically; 'above', 'below', 'on', 'off', 'in' and 'out'."

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