Signing Illustrated: The Complete Learning Guide

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Summary: The PERFECT Beginning Book For Vocabulary!
Review: Being a Deaf American Sign Language instructor, I spend much of my time searching for resources regarding ASL vocabulary, syntax, and non-manual communications. "Signing Illustrated" is the perfect book to start you out.

This book includes 1500 signs, very clearly illustrated with memory aids, as well as help tp practice fingerspelling. Like any ASL book you'll come across, there are some regional differences in the signs, but they're few and far between.
The vocabulary is listed in categories instead of alphabetical order. This means that you can learn all of your feeling words or all of your action words without having to sift through the book and find each one. I love that about this!

Along with this book, you can purchase a board game called, "Sign It!" which uses this text as its reference. There are also a couple of books that are the exact same pictures and descriptions, exact same author, but different format.

No matter what your reason is to learn ASL, this is a wonderful book to get you started. HIGHLY recommended from a deafie! :v)

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Summary: A great help !
Review: I am a beginning student of ASL, and I found this book to be of great help. I have a deaf friend, and wanted to communicate better with him, and I feel this book will really help me do that.
It would be best as an add-on to a course or to practical one-on-one conversation, but it is great on it's own too.
I loved the quizzes to keep checking myself.

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Summary: Great illustrations!!!
Review: This book is wonderful! The illustrations and the descriptions are very clear and easy to understand. I have not found a book so far that is more clear and easier to use. This book is great because is it so user friendly and packet with signs.