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Summary: Always start with the pinky touching your thumb for ASL numbers. Learn the basics of American Sign Language in this free education video.
Rachel Berman is a deaf graduate student at Gallaudet University studying audiology. Besides audiology, she is very interested in researching different ways people develop language...read more
"Our next lesson is to learn the numbers. Are you all ready? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty. You might get a little confused with the numbers six and on. We always start with the pinkie touching your thumb and then you move towards the index finger. Seven, eight and nine and then on to ten. Signals for the number sixteen through nineteen, you'll start with your pinkie touching your thumb and then you'll move on to seventeen, eighteen and nineteen. And then you'll end with twenty. Good job."