Ive always wanted to learn but have never been able to find reliable/easy to understand resources and lessons. I have trouble processing audio (especially recently, the older i get the harder and more frequent it is for some reason) sometimes and do a lot better with the big expressions/gestures that go along with sign language. Ive heard its best to learn from someone irl who already knows it but i dont have that available to me that i know of. Help? Additional notes, i am ridiculously bad at learning new languages and can barely wrap my head around english sometimes, so simple and repetitive is better than fast and in depth i think.
I don't know ASL myself but I've recently come across two sites that might be helpful for you: https://giphy.com/signwithrobert and https://www.spreadthesign.com/ Obviously I can't vouch for the quality but they look like an okay starting point to me and maybe someone who knows more about ASL than me can take a look and see if they're any good :)
Oh man I used to have a website on my old laptop for free asl lessons. I'll share if so can find it again.
lifeprint.com is an online ASL course made by a Deaf person, so I think that's pretty cool :) I never got very far, but /shrugs
I'm currently minoring in ASL, the textbooks we use are really great, they're called 'Signing Naturally' and come with homework videos that help a lot. Could be a bit expensive though. Signingsavvy is also a good straight up dictionary type site for when you want specific words.
this isn't really a resource, and it's only a tip for a really specific part of ASL, but when I was taking ASL classes, I was given a way of practicing fingerspelling quicker when I rode passenger in a car, I would practice fingerspelling roadsigns before they passed by I did that for most of a six hour roadtrip one time, and I improved a whole lot!
this is genius! I have an 18 hour road trip coming up and will definitely do this. Fingerspelling is my biggest weakness
I was doing the car thing yesterday for like 30 minutes and i can already tell its gonna help a lot! What an excellent practice game
back to school means back to ASL class. This year the professor is signing way faster, which is alright for regular words, but once again, fingerspelling is a weakness. Anyone know anywhere I can get better at /reading/ fingerspelling? I have trouble getting anything but the first two letters, cant seem to map watching someone else's hand to what my hand would do fast enough to understand names
http://asl.ms/ That has a thing where it will flash some fingerspelling at you and you have to write the word. I think you can control the speed and everything, so you can start our slow and get faster Fingerspelling will be the death of me when I finally sit down to learn ASL... I have so many problems spelling in english. Spelling outloud? forget it. spelling with my fingers? Oh god.
