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I feel like when you communicate through your hands, you use more of your heart than your brain. -- an aspiring interpreter.
Sign language online since 1997
Handspeak® is a sign-language website, consisting of American Sign Language (ASL) online dictionary, ASL grammar, sign language art + literature, manual alphabet (fingerspelling) + numeral, and other parts: Baby Talk, International Sign Language, gesture, ASL storytelling and art.
Benefits of learning a sign language
Visual-manual (sign) language, in its richly multi-sensory, spatial-visual-temporal nature, is one of the most fascinating languages to learn and explore.
Sign Language
Sign language has been highly developed by fluent Deaf/Signers over the past centuries; ASL is the 3rd most used language in the U.S.
Baby Sign
Baby Talk, one of the hottest trends in child development, boosts lingual and intellectual developments. Infants can manually communicate needs long before they can first vocally talk.
Travel + Gesture
Foreigners and travelers can cross a barrier of language, using gestures for learners, International Sign for fluent signers, and other visual cues.
Sign Language Art
A sign language in its simultaneous, cinematic nature adds a dynamic spice to the visual-spatial arts, daycare + bedtime storytelling, and performing arts.
Animal Talk
Human interest in communicating with animals (and possibly vice versa!) has been around for a long time, via speaking, signing and/or painting.
Professions + Others
There is more to a sign language than thought what it can do. Eg. scuba diving, stock trader, people with physical disabilities.