Learn American Sign Language, Second Edition (eBook)

Everything You Need to Start Signing - Complete Beginners Guide - 1000 Signs

James W. Guido (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
256 Seiten
Wellfleet Press (Verlag)
978-0-7603-9869-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Master American Sign Language (ASL) with this updated edition of the best-selling guide featuring thousands of photographs of signing Deaf actors.ASL is a vibrant, easy-to-learn language that is used by approximately half a million people each day. With this updated edition of Learn American Sign Language, you can learn how to communicate existing, new, and updated signs in ASL. With this new edition you will be able to:View videosdemonstrating multi-step signsLearn more than 800 signs, including signs for school, the workplace, around the house, out and about, food and drink, nature, emotions, small talk, and more. Includes new signs from the past 10 years and slang that is more reflective of our current cultureUnlock the storytelling possibilities of ASL with classifiers, easy ways to modify signs that can turn ';fishing' into ';catching a big fish' and ';walking' into ';walking with a group.'Find out how to make sentences with signs, use the proper facial expressions with your signs, and other vital tipsOrganized by theme and with an index at the back, this easy-to-use and accessible reference boasts a layflat format that leaves your hands free for practice. Become an effective ASL communicator and storyteller with Learn American Sign Language, Updated Edition, the definitive guide to ASL.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.11.2025
• Zusatzinfo: color photography
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 101 • 2024 • Activities • Alphabet • american school for the deaf • american sign language • asl dictionary • Autism • Baby • Basics • Body • book for beginners • Classifiers • clear • clear photos • common mistakes • Communities • Comprehensive • days • deaf actors • Deaf Culture • descriptors • Drink • easy to follow • Education • Emotions • Everyday Phrases • Facial Expressions • Family • Fast • finger spelling • fingerspelling • Flashcards • Food • form sentences • Friends • Glossary • grammar • Guide • handshape • head movements • Health • History • Home • Homeschooling • how to • images • Index • introduction to • layflat • learn • lessons • Letters • lingua franca • Linguistics • Location • made easy • Movement • Nature • Negation • non-manual • Nonverbal • NOVICE • Numbers • online video practice • palm orientation • Paperback • Phonology • Photographs • photo illustrated • phrase book • Pictures • real people • Reference • resource • Rules • school • Sentence structure • signing essentials • signs • Social • Speech • Structure • Student • Symbols • Syntax • Textbook • the easy way • Times • TIPS • Tutorial • Variants • Verbs • Village • Visual • vocabulary • what's the sign for • with pictures • Words • Work
• ISBN-10: 0-7603-9869-0 / 0760398690
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-9869-2 / 9780760398692