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Good afternoon parent ASL class. Today, I would like to show you a couple of web sites
since more and more of you have been asking for some kind of handout or a book that I
would suggest for learning ASL outside of class. So the first one I would like to take
you to is www.aslpro.com and the reason I am wanting to show you this website as well
as the other one is because printed material is getting two dimensional and you're not
going to be able to have the motions seen as well as you can with a video. This is a
free website as you can see here, they are asking for donations, but that is not required
in order to use the site, so the first place I would like to take it down to the middle
of the screen where they have lots of other features here. They"ve got a religious dictionary,
conversational dictionary, ASL for babies dictionary they put together quizzes for you,
they have a finger spelling quiz, but the place I would like to take you first here
to actually look at is the main dictionary so we click on link here to main dictionary
starting with the A words, as you can see there is quite a list here so you click on
the B and the first word is baby so click on the word baby and when you look over here
to the middle of the screen you will see the lady here moving her hands in the motion to
sign baby so to see the signing of the word baby either click on the word over to the
left or you come over to this device here for clicking and you can click the forward
arrow just like on a VCR and again you can see the video play again. Some other words
I would like to show you and wanted to make sure I showed you from the letter R when the
letter R comes up we will scroll to the bottom of the list because we are looking for one
near the end the words we are looking for run. Of each of the words listed, you see
it listed until we see the word run. Then we have it listed a total of seven times.
The reason is because each one is for a different concept. this one is for a person running
this one is for a four legged animal to run. Here is the sign for a car engine running
down to the cold season and you have your nose run so there is all different kinds of
concepts you can have for the sign for run so you need to be sure you are using the correct
one. I can think of a couple of others that are not listed here but before we go onto
that we will move onto another website I wanted to show you which is signing savvy and it
came up already s i g n i n g s a v v y . c o m and right off the bat you see this search
sign language dictionary box here but that is for people that have subscribed to this
website and we will be using the free section so we will browse by letter we will go ahead
and browse. On this website they show the letters with finge rspelling A B C D all the
way through Z using your hand for finger spelling the words so lets go ahead and look up the
same two words we looked up on the other web site to compare to see if they are the same
so we will go to the B words scroll down and lets find baby there is the sign for baby
and it will pop up here and as you can see the man showing us the sign for baby just
like the other website one nice thing about this website is they say the English equivalent
rather than calling it the word they call it the English equivalent for baby they also
have available for members that pay for using the website they put it in a sentence a description
of the sign and how to do it an aid in how to sign it and then a lot of times they will
have an alternative versions this one says ASL 1 they have just the one sign or you can
finger spell it so on this one it is the same as the other they will have different alternates
for when they have more than one way on how to sign it so this is the signing savvy website
and this website shows more signs like we do here is southern california so I highly
suggest you look at this site as well