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Title: Learning American Sign Language by Tom Humphries, Carol Padden, Rob Hills, Daniel W. Renner, Peggy Swartzel-Lott ISBN: 0-13-529801-6 Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Spiral-bound Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $90.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Have For Serious ASL Students!
Comment: I'll admit that when I purchased this book, I was doing it more for an addition to my library than for actual use. Being a Deaf American Sign Language teacher, I'd often used several other basic ASL books and thought them sufficient, to a point. However, when I got my hands on this book, I was thrilled with the extra mile the writers and illustrators went when producing it.
This book is similar to "A Basic Course in ASL," and some may find it hard to dicern between the two. However, this book has many more practice sentences and conversation. Many more opportunities to use your new-found skills. Many more illustrations. There is use of slang and idiomatic language that isn't found often in other resources.
You can purchase a videotape to accompany this book. If you are learning on your own, that really is a must-have. Otherwise, this book offers a full course in beginning your trip to understanding true American Sign Language (versus Signed English or Contact Sign). Highly recommended by this deafie! :v)
Rating: 3
Summary: Lots of Vocab...too bad most of it is localized
Comment: This was a text I used in Beginning ASL II. There is a supplemental video that goes along with the book as well.
While there is tons of vocabulary used in this text, most of it is used the the Pacific Northwest area. This is not a great book if you're taking classes in the midwest or even the south. I was really glad that I had a professor that could show me local signs in my State/City/neighborhood.
There is some examples of ASL grammar included, but nothing hard and fast. As I've learned, the grammar has been easier to pick up.
The video I mentioned is very helpful since most of the exercises revolve around certain scenes that are acted out. There are some werid camera angles during a few black and white "intermissions".
Rating: 3
Summary: Good book.... Not recomended for self-study.
Comment: Good textbook for an ASL course.
Written by experts teaching the ASL.
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Title: American Sign Language Concise Dictionary : Revised Edition by Martin L. Sternberg ISBN: 0062740105 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 28 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Random House Webster's American Sign Language Dictionary by Ph.D. Elaine Costello ISBN: 0679780114 Publisher: Random House Reference & Pub. Date: 02 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: American Sign Language Dictionary-Flexi by Martin L. Sternberg ISBN: 0062736345 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The American Sign Language Phrase Book by Lou Fant ISBN: 0809235005 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Learning American Sign Language: Levels I & II--Beginning & Intermediate, Second Edition by Tom L. Humphries, Carol A. Padden, Rob Hills, Peggy Lott, Daniel W. Renner ISBN: 0205275532 Publisher: Pearson Allyn & Bacon Pub. Date: 18 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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