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Sign Language Lesson 3 – An Introduction to Deaf Culture

I hope you have been enjoying the lessons so far. We’re going to do something a little different for this lesson.

A lot of people think that all Sign Languages are the same or that there is a universal sign language.
This couldn’t be any more further from the truth.

To view todays lesson, you need Adobe Acrobat reader to read PDF files. If you don’t have one, run a google search for acrobat reader and download it now.

If you already have it, click the link below to download Lesson 3: Communicating and Thriving in Deaf Culture.

Sign Language Lesson 3 – Communicating and Thriving In Deaf Culture

It’s a very in-depth review of Sign Language and explains a lot of the common questions and comments people have when they’re just getting started.

Sign Language Lesson 2 – The American Sign Language Alphabet

Now you can get started learning the American Sign Language alphabet, since we’ve covered the history. Using the diagram below and the tips that have been posted for you, you can pick up the ASL alphabet incredibly fast.

Remember the best way to learn the alphabet fast is to practice, practice practice….

A great way to learn how to fingerspell and do the American Sign Language alphabet is to have a handy little card or page you printed out as a reference guide. Just reach into your pocket, pull out your reference guide, and you know exactly how to sign the letter ‘b’ for example.

It is suggested to download and print the following Sign Language diagram. All 26 letters of our alphabet and their American Sign Language counter-part are shown which makes it easy to know which letter is what actual english letter.

The American Sign Language Alphabet

Theres not a lot of ways to learn the alphabet really super fast, but the following tips and advice were helpful to me while learning sign.

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Sign Language Lesson 1 – The History of American Sign Language
A long long time ago, in the 1600’s, Geronimo Cardano, a Northern Italian Physician declared that deaf people could be taught to understand written combinations of pictures by associating those pictures with the thing they represented. This led to the first book ever published that contained and explained the Manual Alphabet ( Fancy Word For Fingerspelling or ASL Alphabet ). This book was published in 1620 by a Juan Pablo de Bonet.

Over 100 years later … Read the rest of this entry »