Summary SIGNING NATURALLY NOTES 2024 LATEST UPDATE

The Signing Naturally Units 1-6 StudentWorkbook and DVDs are designed to compliment course work in American Sign Language (ASL). These introductory materials, along with class instruction, give you basic vocabulary, grammar, and expressive practice to develop your everyday conversational skills in ASL. This introduction will cover information about what to expect in the classroom, provide brief information about ASL, Deaf Culture, and the Deaf community, review the materials, and tell you how to prepare for class. You’re Taking an ASL Class! Since you’ve enrolled in this course, you probably already have an interest in ASL. Maybe you’ve seen an interpreter at a performance or in a classroom. Or you’ve met a Deaf person, have a Deaf family member, friend or neighbor. Now that you’ve decided to learn ASL, be prepared to open your mind to a new language and culture. Human communication is really a set of symbols (this applies to signs, sounds and printed pictures or words) that users agree have the same meaning. For ASL, an obvious difference from spoken language is the modality, which for ASL is visual and gestural. Students of ASL can expect to acquire many insights, not only into the universal aspects common to all languages, but also specific information that is found in studying ASL and learning about its community of users.