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American Sign Language Demystified with DVD

American Sign Language Demystified with DVD
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Get your message across using your hands and your body language

Want to communicate with the Deaf community but are mystified how to start? With American Sign Language Demystified you'll learn this unique visual language, and a whole new world of communication will be opened to you.

At your own pace, you will learn basic grammar structures, discover the nuances of body positioning, master how to convey time, and build a useful vocabulary of signs and phrases. To help you on your way, the accompanying 100-minute DVD features in-depth demonstrations of how to make signs and create phrases and sentences as executed in American Sign Language.

This fast and easy guide offers:

A DVD that contains all the signs and phrases in the book as well as hundreds of additional vocabulary signs

Quizzes at the end of each chapter to monitor your progress

Etiquette you need to know when using ASL

A helpful history of ASL

Simple enough for a beginner but challenging enough for a more advanced student, American Sign Language Demystified will help you communicate in ASL confidently and comfortably.

Table of contents

Part I: Getting Started--Background

1. About ASL

2. Body Language and Facial Expressions

3. Grammar and Sentence Structure

4. Verbs

5. Variation in ASL

6. Deaf Etiquette Part II: Expanding on the Basics

7. Meeting and Greeting People

8. Asking Questions

9. Describing People and Things

10. Expressing Likes and Dislikes

11. Expressing Past, Present, and Future

12. The Manual Alphabet-- Fingerspelling

13. Numbers, Dates, and Time Part III: Building a Sign and Phrase Vocabulary

14. Family and Friends

15. Health

16. Travel

17. Food

18. Shopping

19. Technology

20. Additionarl Signs and Expressions

Final Exam

Answer Key to Chapter Quizzes

Product ID: 503504 ISBN-13: 9780071601375

Categories: Classroom/Schools, Classroom/Teaching Materials, Learn

Supporting languages: Sign Language, Sign Language (US)

Platforms/media types: Printed Matter, DVD

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