| | |  | | Home » American Sign Language Everyday Words: Holidays & Events DVD-Video | | | | | | | Description: | | This new DVD, American Sign Language Everyday Words: Holidays & Events, is great for everyone. You will learn over 250 everyday vocabulary
words in ASL about 21 major holidays, events and more. Every vocabulary will be open-captioned for convenient learning.
Since holidays and events are important part of daily
functions among Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing students,
teachers, parents and professionals, it is common for one to encounter difficulties interpreting and/or
translating specific terms into ASL and English.
Our easy-to-follow teachings will help you add these words to form sentences with our other grammar and sentence structures in ASL DVDs in order to ultimately develop better communication skills. | | | Features: | |
• This new DVD, American Sign Language Everyday Words: Holidays & Events, is great for everyone
• You will learn over 250 everyday vocabulary words in ASL about 21 major holidays events and more
• Every vocabulary will be open-captioned for convenient learning.
• Since holidays and events are important part of daily functions among Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing students, teachers, parents and professionals, it is common for one to encounter difficulties interpreting and/or translating specific terms into ASL and English.
• Our easy-to-follow teachings will help you add these words to form sentences with our other grammar and sentence structures in ASL DVDs in order to ultimately develop better communication skills.
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Gilda Ganezer and Avery Posner | | Director:
| Gilda Ganezer and Avery Posner | | Format:
| NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Everyday ASL Productions, Ltd. | | Run Time:
| 35 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| July 17, 2008 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 4 reviews |
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Can take it or leave itAug 05, 2009
By melrose
I don't know what I expected, but it's okay. These are just some signs you could pick up in the dictionary, from instructors, or other Deaf people you chat with. That is if you are an ASL student or interpreter you would be exposed to this. But, it does give you a visual when you are not around other Deaf people or taking a class, and is better than a book I suppose.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Great learning experience for families and professionalsSep 26, 2008
By Interpreter Training Program (ASL)
Lots and lots of vocabulary words from many categories - really useful and resourceful. Words are categorized for easy learning and practice. I would recommend this to everyone!
ASL Everyday Words: Activities & Events DVD Complete ReviewFeb 13, 2012
By Avery Posner
This DVD is created for the following target audience/environment:
Students who strive to expand vocabulary skills for everyday conversations. Also designed for Beginner's to Intermediate and Advanced American Sign Language students, secondary school students, adult education students, colleges, universities, parents, teachers, professors, private tutors, secondary school programs, libraries, adult education programs, summer schools, Deaf Studies programs and all kinds of ASL classes/courses
Objectives of the DVD:
Teach every viewer how to communicate with expanded vocabulary skills about everyday life - particularly about important holidays, activities and events throughout the year. Simplified teaching of categorized words and short phrases will guide every viewer how to use all signs naturally along with fluency with successful integration of proper facial expressions and body movement.
Over 250 useful words and short phrases will be shown in English and then in American Sign Language throughout the DVD.
What's in the DVD - Chapters and Examples:
The DVD will contain over 250 words/short phrases in English and American Sign Language that will be broken down into twenty-one (21) categorized chapters.
- Christmas Day
- Columbus Day
- Easter
- Election Day
- Father's Day
- Graduation Day
- Halloween
- Hanukkah
- Independence Day
- Kwanzaa
- Labor Day
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Memorial Day
- Mother's Day
- New Year's Day
- Passover
- President's Day
- St. Patrick's Day
- Thanksgiving Day
- Valentine's Day
- Veterans Day
Examples of Words / Short Phrases:
- broadway show
- spring break
- promotion
- gathering
- ready for the real world
- community
- trick or treat
- relationship
- God
- Jesus
- lose a competition
- love
- peace
- Santa Claus
Notes about the DVD:
- The DVD was written, directed and acted entirely by a five-generation Deaf family who are also a team of Deaf filmmakers / ASL professors
- All translations and lessons are open-captioned to aid with learning process and development
- The DVD is now being used as teaching / ASL curriculum materials by teachers, instructors and professors
- The DVD will have bonus features such as bloopers for entertainment viewing and as reminders that even the Deaf actors/actresses and as ASL professors are human, too. Bloopers are shown also to encourage viewers not to be afraid to learn best from trial and errors
1 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 slow, fuzzy videoNov 08, 2009
By monkey
I found this video to be painfully slow. There was no sound (except on the long musical openings) and the quality was as if someone downloaded it onto a DVD from a VHS. Since the quality of the DVD was so poor you could barely make out the woman's hands while she was signing. I couldn't watch all of it, but what I did watch was useless. The woman doing the signs was standing in front of a wall singing; that's it (remember bad quality). No closeup of the hands, no repetition, no shots of the hands from different angles... Don't waste your money like I did.
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