Open Hands Social

a resource for new ASL learners, but everyone is welcome to visit here.

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8 Dec by admin in Beginner, lessons

Funbrain: Sign the Alphabet

I thought it would be fun lesson for new learners and beginners.  Funbrain has two levels of learning Alphabets and Numbers signs.  Try it. Click the image, and it will take you to that site. Enjoy it.

8 Dec by admin in Beginner, lessons

Learn ASL Manual Alphabet

There are two videos on ASL ABC.  One is still-motion display. Second is live.

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YouTube DirektABC song/ASL Alphabet - American Version

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YouTube DirektASL sign language Alphabet

Enjoy learning.

24 Nov by admin in Interedimate, lessons, videos

English v.s. ASL

We would like to share this video with you all. We thought it would be a good lesson for you to watch and learn.  It will show you how to translate from English to ASL.  That guy’s name is Toby.  He teaches ASL. He said that it is very hard to teach how to translate from English to ASL sometimes.  We agree with him.

After you watch both video, we can discuss about it in our next social gathering if you would like to.

Enjoy it.

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YouTube Direkt101 Lesson: English into ASL

11 Nov by admin in Open Hands Social, lessons

Polls: Open Hands Social and Bar Location

You should see the two polls on the right somewhere on the sidebar. Please do them whenever you can .  I will include the links below where you can go directly to the poll itself. More importantly, we need you to poll the bar location right away. Thank you.

You can just rate it what do you think of our social name.

http://openhandsocial.questionform.com/public/Open-Hands-Social

We will need to know where we will be going for our social on December 4th. Please take your pick and we will announce where we will be gonig right here and on anyvite as well.

http://openhandsocial.questionform.com/public/OHS-Bar-Location inactive

Thank you for your time polling.  Keep eye for new polls in the future.

-Dean and David

5 Nov by admin in Interedimate, humor, lessons, videos

CODA Brothers

I have read CODA Brothers’ blog from time to time. They are vloggers. Their names are Ben and Andy Olson. They are hilarious. They can be a clown at times. They would make you laugh, learn and sign. You should check their site out some time. Their blog is codabrothers.wordpress.com. Their blog title is “Laugh. Learn. Sign.” It is a really cool blog. They would tell jokes, stories, and experiences of their lives. They won three awards in 2007 that fell in three categories: Best Hearing Ally, Most Funny Blog, and Best Storyteller from Deafread.com.

Let me say something a bit about it. Maybe many of you may not know what CODA is. CODA stands for Children of Deaf Adults. So those brothers are hearing but sign fluently. They have deaf parents. I believe they are currently interpreters.

I just found a good vlog about ASL Lesson 1. I thought you would want to check it out here. May it be overwhelming to you, but you will learn to understand eventually.

Enjoy their Video below:

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YouTube DirektCODA Brother! ASL Lesson 1

Oh one more thing, when you see them spell “Laurent, SD,” I will tell you about it some time in the near future while I need to collect more information about that town.

Later,
Dean