Sign Language Made Simple: A Complete Introduction to American Sign Language (Made Simple) | 
 enlarge | Author: Karen Lewis
Publisher: Made Simple
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 308206
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0385488572
Dewey Decimal Number: 419
EAN: 9780385488570
ASIN: 0385488572
Publication Date: August 18, 1997
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Product Description
Sign Language Made Simple will include five Parts:
Part One: an introduction, how to use this book, a brief history of signing and an explanation of how signing is different from other languages, including its use of non-manual markers (the use of brow, mouth, etc in signing.)
Part Two: Fingerspelling: the signing alphabet illustrated, the relationship between signing alphabet and ASL signs
Part Three: Dictionary of ASL signs: concrete nouns, abstractions, verbs, describers, other parts of speech-approx. 1,000 illustrations. Will also include instructions for non-manual markers, where appropriate.
Part Four: Putting it all together: sentences and transitions, includes rudimentary sentences and lines from poems, bible verses, famous quotes-all illustrated. Also, grammatical aspects, word endings, tenses.
Part Five: The Humor of Signing: puns, word plays and jokes.
Sign Language Made Simple will have over 1,200 illustrations, be easy to use, fun to read and more competitively priced than the competition. It's a knockout addition to the Made Simple list.
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easy to use October 6, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Got this book for a class. It's easy to use, includes different variations of signs that might be used. As with any sign book though, you have to try to figure out what the sign will look like in action from a drawing.
 comprehensive start to ASL February 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have taken ASL classes and was using this book as a review. It's pretty comprehensive and contains substantive amounts of nouns (both concrete and abstract), verbs, adjectives, etc. The pictures and the descriptions are very helpful too.
Good introduction for self-teaching of the basics of ASL May 17, 2002
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Good book for getting started... after reading and using it you may want to get a more complete education in Sign Language.
Excellent Resource May 18, 2001
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is very helpful for those wishing to learn some basic sign language.
Great for beginners October 24, 1998
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book is great for beginners. It shows you alot of signs that would get you started and on your way. However, our class has learned that because all of the signs are not 'universal', we needed an ASL dictionary to go along with it. The discriptions of the signing actions need to be read a couple of times in some instances to understand what you are susposed to do. But is is good for a beginner to get the basics.
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