The American Sign Language Phrase Book (19 page)

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Authors: Lou Fant,Barbara Bernstein Fant,Betty Miller

BOOK: The American Sign Language Phrase Book
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Happy New Year.
 

Note: For New Year's Eve, the word
Eve
is fingerspelled.

Happy birthday.
 

4
Signing and Deafness
 

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I'm learning sign language.
 

The sign LANGUAGE is usually not signed in this expression, so that it reads literally: "I am learning to sign."

Sign slowly, please.
 

Please repeat.
 

I can't fingerspell well.
 

I can fingerspell, but I can't read it well.
 

You sign fast.
 

I don't understand.
 

Would you write it, please?
 

How do you sign ________? What's the sign for _______?
 

Ask these questions by pointing to whatever it is you want to know the sign for or by fingerspelling the word.

There's no sign for that; you have to fingerspell it.
 

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