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January 21st 2007 23:44
For some time my wife was learning sign language. In her case it was the Australasian version, which is different to the US version. (Sign language has dialects as well.)
She went to classes, and she bought an enormous book of signs, which was a bit of a trial to trawl through.
While doing a post for my other blog, I came across the lifeprint.com site, where a host of animated gifs are located. These are the American Sign Language ‘signs’ for a whole host of words. Check out earthquake, or 2397, or above average, or vampire (found under 'bat-vampire) or computer, or disgusted, just to name a few.
This animated site is a great way to learn sign language, being far superior to the books that are available, because the movement is much more easy to pick up. It might enthuse my wife again – although she tends to have times and seasons when it comes to interest, and sign language was ‘in’ several years ago now.
She went to classes, and she bought an enormous book of signs, which was a bit of a trial to trawl through.
While doing a post for my other blog, I came across the lifeprint.com site, where a host of animated gifs are located. These are the American Sign Language ‘signs’ for a whole host of words. Check out earthquake, or 2397, or above average, or vampire (found under 'bat-vampire) or computer, or disgusted, just to name a few.
This animated site is a great way to learn sign language, being far superior to the books that are available, because the movement is much more easy to pick up. It might enthuse my wife again – although she tends to have times and seasons when it comes to interest, and sign language was ‘in’ several years ago now.
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