ASL, Week 1: Hot and Cold

So it’s the first week of me learning sign language. And though I have learned some various signs before, it was never with the expectation that I would retain any of the knowledge.

I figured the first thing to do would be to refresh my memory of the basic ASL alphabet.

Eventually, I’ll get a working web camera so I can post videos of myself doing these signs…

For the most part, I have them down, but there are a few that consistently give me trouble. In particular, I often mix up “D” and “F,” and for the longest time I couldn’t figure out what “H” was supposed to look like (this video shows the sign a bit better, but I started out with some cavemen-like sketches). Read More…

May 16, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Learn Sign Language  No Comments