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- Sentence: The driving time from Washington, D.C. to Toronto, Canada is approximately eight and half hours.
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- Lesson: Practice using pronouns and possessives
- Feature: Double fingerspelling receptive skill practice
Sign Language dictionary
How do you sign "thank you" or "I love you" in ASL? Browse thousands of signed words in the ASL video dictionary or search a word. Browse ASL writing dictioanry.
ASL Word of the Day
Equivalent to English: spill
Learning ASL as a second language (L2)
Learning a signed language is fun and popular. Bilingualism is not the only benefit, but also bimodalism is another linguistic advantage for the cognitive and sensorial development. Plus many other benefits.
How long does it take to learn sign language fluently?
How to pick the right ASL class to fit your needs?
Learn about myths and facts about sign language.
ASL tutorials
Phrase tutorials
Fingerspelling
Manual alphabet charts
Signing ASL as a first language (L1)
Studies from neuroscience to linguistics show that language acquisition, developmental milestones, and linguistic activities in the brain are similiar in signed language as found in spoken language.
Should you learn sign language for your deaf child?
Raising a bilingual-bimodal child: Don't insist on English.
Language development L1
Family resources
Visual / Deaf culture
Signed language as the core of its culture is a distinct, cultural-linguistic identity of people of the eye. Learning sign language is inseparable from studying its visual Deaf culture.
Literature and Art
Quote of the Month
"I cannot understand how a language like sign language - the richest in expressions, the most energetic, the most advantageous in its universal intelligibility is still so neglected and that only the deaf speak it. This is, I confess, one of those irrationalities of the human mind that I cannot explain."
-- Pierre Desloges, 1779