ASL: ABC’S

May 16, 2022 4 By Jasmin Boha

For the beginning of my journey toward learning American Sign Language (ASL), I decided to fully learn the alphabet! I thought that it would have been a bit more complicated, however, this beginner ASL Alphabet Youtube video that I found created by Laura Berg Life made it super simple and easy to learn the whole alphabet in less than 20 minutes!

StartASL.com

I also downloaded a picture of the alphabet in ASL onto my phone to help me if I ever forget or feel the need to look back quickly! I am going to continue to practice over and over the alphabet so it will be forever stuck in my brain and easily done by my fingers! I am going to continue to search for more simple, but effective videos and other resources to help me learn as a beginner, but for now, I am very thrilled with the progress I have made and feel very confident in the direction I am going!

I have created a short video showing myself signing the alphabet with the video in the background that I learned from! I’m super excited to be learning this new language and it encourages me to want to learn more due to the fact that I know by myself learning ASL, I can potentially help and connect with others in the future!

I have also been researching on Pinterest, as well as other websites online for different options rather than just youtube to learn from! Feel free to let me know if you as a reader know of any great sites or resources I should look into! The input is appreciated greatly!

My goal for next week :

  • learn numbers 1-10 using free videos from Youtube
  • understand simple greetings such as “hello” and “good-bye”