Greetings and Introductions

This is another great video by Rob. Unfortunately it won't play on the blog, but if you just click it then it will take you to youtube where you can watch it.

Asa still prefers to watch the video below and is learning the "nice" and "meet" sign!

Simple Practice Sentences

This video shows simple sentence structure. Often, when using proper ASL grammar, the sentence structure is much different than in English.

Numbers 1-20

Alright, no catchy tune with this video but this Rob Nielson guy makes it so clear exactly how to (and NOT to) sign numbers. As it turns out I've been signing some of mine wrong! I'm glad he has set me straight and with his help we'll all be able to sign 1-20 perfectly.

ABC Song

Okay so I hope this video clears up any questions we have on our alphabet letters and how they are formed. In this video the letter D is a little hard to tell the shape of, but between the two videos I'm sure you'll have your alphabet figured out quickly and some catchy tunes stuck in your head as well.

The Alphabet Song

This first post goes out to my little friend Miss M. 

Without her I wouldn't know that this fun alphabet song even existed. 

Learning the alphabet is fundamental to learning sign language because so many signs use an alphabet letter a part of the sign. For example, remembering that the sign for 'family' will be much easier if you recognize that the sign is made while the hands are making the letter 'F'.

My only criticism of this particular video is that a few of the signs are hard to see (J, O, P, Q and X) and I am pretty sure that they are signing the letter K wrong. Oh well, I'll post one more alphabet video and I am sure between the 2 we'll have some alphabet clarity!