Here's an on-line ASL dictionary:
http://www.42explore.com/signlang.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/pa3/ecarpenter/links.htm
This one is nifty (pulled from above site) where you can practice fingerspelling too
http://www.aslinfo.com/links.cfm?linkcat=Deaf+Culture
As you can tell, some sites are more Deaf Culture related, and others are geared towards ASL... I have not had the chance to click every link because there were soooo many, but I did enjoy what I found...
Happy surfing!
Having looked at a number of the web sites listed, I was wondering if anyone has come across, or has links to sites that deal with things like slang, or regional (dialectal) differences. Or is this way too big an area to cover on one web site?
Forgive me if there's already a couple of sites listed, but I'm working my way through them all and it looks like, if I don't stop getting distracted by the sites, it will take me some time to get through them all.
It is a lot of material to sift thru, that is true... I haven't made my way thru the whole list yet either... DOH!
I AM ON MY WAY ... WOW! This list ... whew ... huge library here ... is just what I need. I will work now in THREE of the seven sites that I bookmarked, and weigh in later, as to what I have found out to be most useful to me ... in this time.
My problem is THIS: I AM NOT DEAF ... anything but. I am not, as so many people, a very good LISTENER, but I work on all of that on a Daily Basis ... consciously! Not only am I not Deaf, but I have been blessed or cursed [not entirely sure which might be best] with so-called "Perfect Pitch," and even at the advancing age of 68, can here much HIGHER and LOWER pitches than most. I am a trained composer and did Computer-Generated Music and Acoustic Research [still do] at Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Project. One of my musician friends back in Seattle, where I lived for 18-years, before moving to the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, was not deaf, but became a specialist in working with the Deaf Community and became a very special Signer, etc. And that always impressed, very much intrigued me, and so forth. But THEN ... in 2000, at the University of British Columbia, I met ... well ... the Love of My Life. And she, a member here [Gee whiz, I discovered this Care2 group on my own, and then went to invite her to this group, only to find out that she is a member here already ... and now I really get to surprise her, when I start to "TALK" better.] has been "stoned deaf" since birth, and turns out, in my experience, to be one of the very best ... THE BEST ... COMMUNICATORS on the Planet. She was trained from babyhood to lip read and made her Mum "angry" when she was about 17 and learned to SIGN! So there is THAT in the Deaf Politics and Traditions and Communities. BUT ... I-I-I am so very, very, very, very LAZY around this beautiful person. She can lip me from the side, even with a full beard, which hides a bunch of the CUES to clear "reading." She is from Australia, where I have now been twice, and taught me to do AusLan Sign Langauge for SPELLING, which is much simpler, for SPELLING than ASL. She lives in OZ. I live in Lyons, Colorado. She is learning ASL and coming to North America to study in the future. I must learn ASL ... without a very good opportunity to practice. I am terrible and resistant to languages. As a Tibetan Buddhist Monk, etc., I have had a very tough time with Tibetan [at tough language anyway] and usually give up about 5-10 times per year ... oh, okay, it is down to pretty much just having given up. I really don't IMPROVE much. But now I shall learn SIGN ... maybe, like Beethoven, preparing for my future deafness, if that should ever occur, and prepare for my Future with the LOML! E Ma Ho! How wonderful! Sarva Mangalam!! All is auspicious!! THANKS!
Sapan Rinpoche -- Lone Hawk Watcher
Martin S., I'm not so sure if anyone ever responded to your question about regional sign variations. But, at any rate, I was not able to find a website, however, there is a book out there, you can buy. It's called "What's Your Sign For PIZZA?" The authors you can look for are Ceil Lucas and Robert Bayley. I found it on Amazon.com
So, good luck....and, let us know what you find, please.
I saw this guy live when I was living out in IL, still at college. It was halarious!!!! So, he's the child of Deaf parents, and he has a website. It's.....
Enjoy!
http://deafness.about.com/cs/interpretgeneral/a/edinterpreters.htm
this one website is pretty cool becuase you can sign up to be on their mailing list, and get a plethora of various newsletters concerning deafness. Enjoy!!!!
for the week of March 31st to April 8th only, if you go to www.postsecret.com I know you will see two Deaf related "secrets." Quick, do it now.....Before they change them!
has up some interesting songs that have been interpreted into ASL. Enjoy, then let me know what you think about them. I'd love to have a discussion with you.
Well, at the website, www.d-pan.com, they have a new song up! I hope you like it. Check on it!
