You Learned the ASL Alphabet Wrong!
You Learned The ASL Alphabet Wrong is a comprehensive course designed for beginning ASL students. Learn correct hand positioning and improve your fingerspelling skills systematically. This course will give you a solid foundation in the ASL manual alphabet, allowing you to fingerspell and read with ease. Perfect for those new to ASL or looking to brush up their skills. Join now and start developing real fingerspelling skills beyond just the basic alphabet.
What you’ll learn
- In “You Learned The ASL Alphabet Wrong” you will learn correct hand positioning to fingerspell clearly.
- You will learn all of the ASL manual letters in groupings, not alphabetical order, but in handshape similarities.
- You will practice each grouping of letters systematically to improve your production and understanding of all the letters.
- The end goal of this course is to give you a solid foundation with the manual alphabet and get you to fingerspell and read fingerspelling with relative ease.
You probably learned the ASL alphabet WRONG!
Well, it’s not your fault and I’m here to make it right.
Most people learn the ASL alphabet as they did the English Alphabet. BUT… ASL is a different language and should be learned as such.
In part 1 we learned the right way to fingerspell starting with fist shape letters. These are the toughest to recognize and they are the most common. Fist shapes contain 4 of the 5 vowels, therefore, we start with these as they are essential.
In part 2 we learned the UP shapes. With fist shapes and up shapes, you can spell most words. These are very easy to identify because they stick straight up and have unique handshapes.
In part 3 we learned down and horizontal shapes. Similar to up letters, down and horizontal letters have a unique handshapes and are easy to identify. With only 2 letters left, your fingerspelling skills should be taking off!
In part 4 we learned the final 2 letters… the moving letters. Learning how to produce moving letters is the challenge here but once you get it, you got it!
This completes the entire alphabet. If you learned this step by step, not only do you know the entire alphabet but you are starting to develop real fingerspelling skills not just A, B, C, D…
In part 5… what else is there to learn? DOUBLE LETTERS!
We take it step by step to really learn to identify and perform each letter correctly before learning more letters.
Who this course is for:
- This course is for beginning ASL students. If you are new to ASL and/or fingerspelling or it has been a while and you want to brush up your skills, this course is for you. Also, if you can only fingerspell the alphabet or your name, this course will help you get better are fingerspelling and understanding a variety of words.
