Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Learning ASL

I am learning ASL (american sign language). I've been carrying around my old, battered ASL dictionary and looking up random words in it, signing sentences with it. But I want to use multiple methods of learning. One thing I decided to do is look for YouTube videos in ASL that have subtitles, so I can watch them and try to recognize the words as they are signing. (I recently watched a video in Hindi with subtitles and ended up learning that 'ha' means yes, so hopefully I can do something similar with ASL.) Once I know more, I'll
I'm also trying to sign up for an ASL class.
So, here are some subtitled ASL videos:

http://subtitle.in/w/xZTbvvLWziM/E_U1fgUYfBf
A guy talking about having had shoulder surgery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTzgFPiXz-8
A 2-year old girl demonstrating signs she learnt to help communicate with her autistic sister.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvul3DC4l4E
A comedy video about a guy translating signs into speech.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj-U2w0sIfE
A guy signing a song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h-wEBxekF0
Another guy signing a song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivVr4ogQ5mI
A 6 year old girl singing along with a song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2VW6ry5Ykg
A guy signing and speaking who has intermittent speech problems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkq610qeOAY
An evangelical signing video, talking in excruciating detail about dying on the cross.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ua4hqGHf2o
Some guy signing 'Hotel California'.

Here are some online ASL dictionaries that have videos of the signs:

http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html

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