Free eBooks A Basic Course In American Sign Language Available To Downloads
This book features nearly 1000 vocabulary items illustrations brief explanations and examples of some basic structures of American Sign Language. It includes exercises for the student to practice these structures.. Author - Tom Humphries Carol Padden Terrence J. ORourke. Year - 1994. 284 Pages. Soft cover. Spiral bound. ASL. Item Weight - 1 lbs.
Age Range: 8 and up
Spiral-bound: 288 pages
Publisher: T. J. Publishers; 2nd edition (June 1, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0932666426
ISBN-13: 978-0932666420
Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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After a semester of Siglish, I took 4 semesters of American Sign Language (ASL) in college as my foreign language requirement. The course was superby taught by a husband and wife team, both who worked at residential schools for the deaf for over 25 years. This book was the text for the first 2 semesters and I still have it on my shelf.Extremely detailed, lots of exlplainations and superb drawings. The text is spiral bound, which is awesome for laying a book flat while practicing signs. If you carry this book with you in a backpack, however, you should keep the book in a protective bag... the spiral binding makes the book very vulnerable to pages ripping away while being jostled in a backpack.This text should not replace classroom instruction. There is no text that can replace a real human being explaining how one sign looks exactly like another depending on context, facial expressions and body language. You can easily embarrass yourself by assuming you can figure out the drawings and go about conversing in ASL with someone w/o the benefit of real one-on-one practice with another human being. Signs like "prostitute" and "shy" are almost identical to the learner and if you're talking to someone and you say "I'm shy," you might end up getting a bunch of raised eyebrows if you don't do it just right. Signs for "lemon" and "lesbian" are also very closely similar... you can imagine the types of mis-understandings that can occur if you don't learn these signs properly.This warning is not meant as discouragement. If you have already learned the manual alphabet and find yourself to be quite adept, ASL will probably be a breeze to you... at least it was to me. Some people really take to it and others don't.
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