Signing Everyday Phrases | 
 enlarge | Author: Mickey Flodin
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 274362
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0399522360
Dewey Decimal Number: 419
EAN: 9780399522369
ASIN: 0399522360
Publication Date: October 1, 1996
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Product Description
Organized by subject area and featuring easy-to-follow directions and illustrations, more than three thousand signs encompass familiar phrases for greetings, travel and direction, shopping, emergencies, health and medical conditions, and everyday expressions.
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 Not ASL! March 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is not ASL at all; it is Signed Exact English: english syntax, word order, articles and pronouns everywhere, prepositions, and auxiliary verbs ("am").
The introduction specifies that the contents are American Sign Language and says nothing about SEE. This claim is a falsehood that seems intentional; no one who knows this much about signs could not know the difference. I will buy nothing from this publisher (Perigee) in this topic again.
Not For Serious Signers August 31, 2003
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Like other reviews on this book, it's important for me to mention that the title is misleading. "Signing Everyday Phrases" leads potential ASL students to believe that this book shows you how to sign phrases in American Sign Language. In reality, it shows you Signed English, something that is NOT used by adult Deaf people. This is speaking as an adult Deaf person.Really the only thing good about this book would be if you are looking to communicate with a deaf child. Otherwise, please look the other way and you'll find many more suitable resources. (Note: Some of Mickey Flodin's books are highly recommended, but basically just the ones that shows signs alone). :o(
 I learned alot... September 3, 2000
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is a good book for learning Basic Sign Language phrases. I have all the asl books by Mickey Flodin, and I think he's really great at explaining the signs, as well as the clear pictures. I will continue to buy his asl books for teaching sign language.
NOT for ASL Students July 11, 2000
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
As a student of American Sign Language (ASL), I have successfully used Flodin's earlier book, "Signing Illustrated: The Complete Learning Guide," as a favorite reference through two semesters of the basics. I would, however, withhold any recommendation of "Signing Everyday Phrases" to a student of ASL. ASL is recognized as a true language and as such has its own specific syntax. "Signing Everyday Phrases" is an offering in Signed English which presents a different word order from ASL and uses many more signs to convey the same meaning. Since this book is about putting signed words together to form phrases and short sentences and appropriate syntax is a must in ASL, this book is definitely not for the student of ASL.
Title is misleading!It doesn't teach phrases as used by Deaf February 7, 1999
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
If you are expecting to sign phrases as the Deaf use (i.e. American Sign Language), this book is NOT for you. Some places in the book did not list the approiate sign for that context. This reviewer would recomend staying away from this book as it presents Pidgen Sign English but too often with the wrong sign.
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