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You Can Learn Sign Language!: More Than 300 Words in Pictures

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An excellent book for children to learn the basics plus many more. One of the few books with more than the alphabet I've seen. This book includes many words used in everyday conversation and also teaches simple phrases such as "nice to meet you" and "where do you live." The photographs that show how to form letters and words are of actual children of multicultral backgrounds. It's a great resource - - and fun for children and adults alike.

My ten year old loves this book. She and her friends have learned how to communicate with a deaf neighbor. It is lively and colorful with pictures of real children of different backgrounds instead of dull illustrations. I would recommend it for adults as well, because it has basic phrases and words that anyone interested in sign would need to know. An excellent resource for parents, kids, and teachers.

I home school my children and picked this book up at the library. My 8yo picked it up as soon as we got home and hasn't stopped learning new words. It's a great book that any child could learn from as well as adults. It's so good I've decided to buy it to add to our collection.

I love this book! I have a friend who is deaf and I talk to her in sign language every day. This book has pictures instead of drawings. But I like the drawings on my sign language books that I have. My favorite siner is the girl with black hair and wears a dark purple shirt. Sign language is easy and fun to learn!

If you know anyone who is deaf you can talk to them in ASL. Sign language is not hard and it's a lot of fun!

Good luck!

This book is is a good starting piont if you want to learn Sign language. It shows you in picture as well as tells you in words how to use your hands. And remember it takes time to learn sign language! But it's a alot fun.

I've never ever learned sign language and this book REALLY helped me. My friends love it, I love it, and I would recommend to anyone else.

This is not a comprehensive textbook on sign language, but then again, it doesn't purport to be. What more can a person expect in 48 pages?

The subject matter is conveniently araged in categories, such as colors, sports, faily relatives, and emotions. When a sign bears some relation with the item being signed, the author makes certain that the reader notices the relationship.

The book is replete with colorful cartoons and color photographs of children performing signs. However, I wish that the layout artist had read the Dartnell Advertising Handbook, which states that no more than 5 elements should be included on a page. The titles, text blocks, photographs, and cartoons are superimposed on each other and scattered helter-skelter. I agree with the anonymous reviewer of July 5, 2003.

One more concern: many of the signs involve signing the initial letter. The book purports to deal with ASL, but this factor makes it look suspiciously like Signed English.

For both adults and toddlers, this is a very user-friendly "keep it simple, keep it fun" introduction to American Sign Language. When my four-year-old grandson's speaking ability was damaged after an accident over two years ago, all members of my nuclear family acquired from Amazon several copies of this book in order to become familiar with basic statements and with the sign alphabet.

Thanks to a lot of therapy and special education, his speaking ability is very much improved now and will probably be close to fully restored by the time he enters Kindergarten. Nevertheless, we always know where our copies are in the event we need to ready ourselves to communicate to hearing impaired persons.

I love this book! I've gotten many sign language books but this one is the best one! The pictures really help me when I'm confused by a definition. I would recommend this book to ANYONE! THIS IS AN AMAZING BOOK!!! :)

As soon as it left the department it was at my door within 1 day. And it was in FLAWLESS condition!!!!