Arranged in a straightforward, easy-to-use format, readers learn to improve their sign language skills with the sample sentences provided. More than 1,350 signs are arranged alphabetically with directions on how to form each sign and detailed illustrations showing precise hand positions and exact movements.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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Fabulous resource for any signer...novice to sage!!,
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This review is from: The Perigee Visual Dictionary of Signing (Paperback)
As a professional sign language interpreter, I am often asked by non-signers to recommend a book for them to begin learning this beautiful, expressive language...this is always the first one I mention!
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The best sign language book I've seen.,
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Unlike a lot of the other ASL books, this one has clear and precise diagrams as well as written descriptions of each sign. This book was such a relief to find after trying to make sense out of the badly drawn signs shown in most other ASL dictionaries and workbooks.
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A Great Starting Point,
This review is from: The Perigee Visual Dictionary of Signing (Paperback)
As a Deaf ASL teacher, I often search out new (and not so new) resources to supplement my teaching. I've found many of Flodin's books to be bad news to the ASL teacher, for they are strictly English-based. However, this being a dictionary, sentence structure is not an issue. Therefore, this book is a definite asset to anyone's repertoire."The Perigee Dictionary" has very clear illustrations and descriptions of over 1500 signs. It also includes memory aids to help you retain what you are learning. It is in basic, A - Z, format and serves as a wonderful starting point for people interested in learning signs. One must be careful to remember a few things, however: There are regional dialects and what is signed one way in Michigan is signed differently in California, this by no means exhausts ASL vocabulary; and, finally, American Sign Language is a foreign language, completely different than English (as different from English as Russian). If you keep those ideas in mind, you should have no trouble utilizing this fabulous resource while understanding how much more there is to know. Highly recommended as an initial dictionary. That's just this deafie's opinion. :v)
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With the palms facing each other, point both flat hands to the left (or to the right); then pivot both hands downward from the wrists. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
initial indicates the word, right flat hand, left flat hand, initial suggests the word, left flat palm, add the sign for person, initials indicate the word, right curved open hand, right curved hand, personalizing word, front with palm facing right, palms facing self, left upturned palm, palm facing self, right bent hand, curved open hands, front with palms, left curved hand, open curved hand, respective index fingers, right open hand, curved right hand, move the right index finger, right with palm, point the right index finger Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jesus Christ, The Bible New!
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With the palms facing each other, point both flat hands to the left (or to the right); then pivot both hands downward from the wrists. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
initial indicates the word, right flat hand, left flat hand, initial suggests the word, left flat palm, add the sign for person, initials indicate the word, right curved open hand, right curved hand, personalizing word, front with palm facing right, palms facing self, left upturned palm, palm facing self, right bent hand, curved open hands, front with palms, left curved hand, open curved hand, respective index fingers, right open hand, curved right hand, move the right index finger, right with palm, point the right index finger Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jesus Christ, The Bible New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Signing Illustrated (Revised Edition): The Complete Learning Guide by Mickey Flodin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Signing Illustrated: The Complete Learning Guide by Mickey Flodin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Signing Made Easy (A Complete Program for Learning Sign Language. Includes Sentence Drills and Exercises for Increased Comprehension and Signing Skill) by Rod R. Butterworth in Back Matter
- Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology) by Stéphane Chatty on page 14
- I Am Not a Machine-Book II: Thinking with Words by Jack Lynch in Back Matter
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