American Sign Language: Colors

Series Summary

Sign language, an often overlooked language, is incredibly beneficial to know and fun to learn. American sign language is very easy to learn for native English speakers and requires only a modicum of dedication, but the benefits of knowing sign language are immense. Imagine being able to communicate with someone who is often ignored because they cannot hear or speak the same language as those around them. Those who are hearing impaired deal with this on a daily basis. Imagine what an impact it could make their lives to have one more person connect with them by speaking their language. Most likely that would come naturally for you if you only knew how to sign. In this free video series an expert on sign language will teach you how to sign the words for different foods. Everyone loves talking about food so why not increase your vocabulary in sign language with the signs for favorite foods. You will learn the sign language signs for fruits, vegetables and restaurants. You will also learn the signs for breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as for drinks. If you are interested in learning more about sign language, let our expert show you the signs for food words in this free video series.

Video Transcript

"Now we have a new series. We'll be talking about food. So, first I'll teach you some colors. And the reason for that is because many foods have colors, and you might forget the name of a particular fruit or food. So, often you'll just describe it. So we'll start with the colors. You might describe that something is oblong and yellow to signify a banana. Here are the colors -- yellow with a "y", yellow; purple with a "p", purple; red, red; orange, orange; green, green; black, black; brown with a "b", brown. You want to review those colors -- red, yellow, orange, blue, purple, green, black. The colors typically start with the first letter. Like yellow and brown, you can see a "y", a "b", purple with a "p," etc. Good."