This book is a great learning tool and reference book into the world of Sign
Language. The other thing that I really liked was the cost of the book from
Amazon vs. my college book store it was amazing!

Some of my complaints include the problematic fact that there are many signs that appear in the dialogues and are not in the vocabulary section, nor illustrated anywhere else, and many of the signs are outdated - one must have a teacher or deaf/hoh person around to help sort it out.

Most of the dialogues are pretty boring and inspired me to write a new one which was a very fruitful and a much better learning experience than the book. Also, one of the teachers at Palomar College created a vocabulary video which should be on the dvd that comes with the book.

But, on the plus side, the expressions are very good and the signs are clear. The dvd is good and the characters well done tho as I said above, it is missing the vocab signs.

Enjoy Dancing Hand Talk! LI

I'm finding this book accompany's A Basic Course in American Sign Language well. It has lots of good guided language practice and examples in it, and gets more advanced than the ABC/ASL book. I still chose the other book for a beginning ASL class, but if I taught an intermediate class I might add this book as a required text because it shows the culture of the language better.

Why do I have to write something here, I gave it 5 stars.