Learn American Sign Language, Second Edition: Everything You Need to Start Signing - Complete Beginners Guide - 1000 Signs - Softcover

Guido, James W.

 
9781577155522: Learn American Sign Language, Second Edition: Everything You Need to Start Signing - Complete Beginners Guide - 1000 Signs
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1577155521 ISBN 13: 9781577155522
Publisher: Wellfleet Press, 2025

Synopsis

Master American Sign Language (ASL) with this updated edition of the best-selling guide featuring thousands of photographs of signing Deaf actors. 

ASL is a vibrant, easy-to-learn language that is used by approximately half a million people each day. With this updated edition of Learn American Sign Language, you can learn how to communicate existing, new, and updated signs in ASL. This new edition features:

  • Learn 1000 signs, including signs for school, the workplace, around the house, out and about, food and drink, nature, emotions, small talk, and more. Includes new signs from the past 10 years and slang that is more reflective of our current culture
  • Unlock the storytelling possibilities of ASL with classifiers, easy ways to modify signs that can turn “fishing” into “catching a big fish” and “walking” into “walking with a group.”
  • Find out how to make sentences with signs, use the proper facial expressions with your signs, and other vital tips


Organized by theme and with an index at the back, this easy-to-use and accessible reference boasts a layflat format that leaves your hands free for practice. Become an effective ASL communicator and storyteller with Learn American Sign Language the definitive guide to ASL.

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About the Author

James W. Guido returns for the updated version of Learn American Sign Language. James is an American Sign Language instructor and the artistic director of the New York Deaf Theatre (NYDT). Since joining as the Artistic Director in 2012, JW has focused on creating opportunities for Deaf artists. Originally from Buffalo, New York, he’s currently an instructor of ASL at the College of Staten Island, and he hopes to some day be
a Broadway actor while continuing to teach ASL through the use of theatre. With his Ed.D in theater education at NYU, he’s developing innovative ways to teach ASL.

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Publisher
Wellfleet Press
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1577155521
ISBN 13 
9781577155522
Binding
Spiral-bound
Number of pages
256