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Importance of Learning Sign Language
Sign Language: What Is Your Name?
Sign Language: Nice to Meet You
Sign Language: How Are You?
Sign Language: I'm Good
Sign Language: Where Do You Live?
Sign Language: I Live At
Sign Language: Where Do You Work?
Sign Language: I Work At
Sign Language: How Old Are You?
Sign Language: See You Later
Sign Language: How Do You Sign?
Sign Language: Thank You
Sign Language: Hungry
Sign Language: Tired
Sign Language: Thirsty
Sign Language: Happy & Sad
Sign Language: What's Up?
Sign Language: Facial Expressions
Sign Language: Names
Sign Language: Numbers
Practicing Sign Language
Importance of Facial Expressions in Signing
Practicing Facial Expressions in Sign Language
Improving Sign Language Conversations
Summary: Thousands of Americans use sign language. To communicate effectively, it's important to learn the basics. Find out more about why to learn sign language with these signing practice tips from a sign language instructor in this free video about basic sign language.
John Atwood has been a student of the American Sign Language for many years. His deaf friends teach him their language and help him sharpen his skills. He also offers his assistance...read more
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 in their lives to have one more person connect with them by speaking their language. Most likely that will come naturally for people who know how to sign. In this free video series, learn some basic sign language phrases. John Atwood, an experienced signer, demonstrates the fundamental questions and provides answers for many general conversations. For instance, learn how to sign the questions "How old are you?" "What's your name?" and "Where do you work?"; and learn how to sign the answers to these questions as well. Find out how to express emotions in sign language, like tired, hungry, sad, happy or thirsty. Discover how to sign names and numbers as well. With this basic sign language tutorial, start having simple conversations. To master sign language, all it takes is practice, practice and practice! So, learn basic sign language today!
"And today we're going to go over twenty-five things we can say in American Sign Language. Now, American Sign Language it's a real language, just like English, or Japanese, or Spanish, that's what's used by most deaf people in America, in the United States of America and many other languages. Now, one reason why we should try to at least learn something because you will learn a deaf person either in your family or you met them through your friend or you know, through work, might as well learn something to be able to talk to them even if you don't understand it or you don't know their culture, or it's hard for you to understand, at least you learn something. So now we're going to go over twenty-five different things we can say to a deaf person."
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