One of the fun and special traditions enjoyed and shared by the Deaf Community is signing stories using Number or Alphabet hand shapes. In these stories, various hand shapes do not stand for the numbers and letters themselves, but are used as signs or gestures to convey concepts. They are signed in alphabetical or numerical order, and used in amazing ways to sign or act out a story. Video excerpt from American Sign Language for Families video series by Color of Language. www.coloroflanguage.com.
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He has a thick accent! I don’t understand him!
Haha very funny
i feel proud of myself that i caught all the letters xD yay!
matthewandrew… how about using ASL “T” (for bathroom)?
Very very good.I’ve never seen such an ABC ASL story!!!
… why?
very cool.
was that a BSL “T”
tsk!
omg that was good .. u should put music in the background tho lol xx
aw, that was cute!
that’s not the sign for “t” though… unless that’s just a different variation on it
this is fantastic. thank you for posting!
i love abc stories and handshape stories i have to do one in my asl 2 class for a project
This story is great and I like abc stories.
I like this story I will like to learn abc stories in asl.
Cool, thank you for telling me about it…..
So cute I liked it a lot!
This is very good abc story and I learned it before but it was hard to learn make abc story.
hahaha that was incredibly entertaining 🙂
awesomeness!!!
Ohh lol, thank you for telling me about it. i don’t noticed it but he sign faster than i do. xD
G was correct and yes, t was stop and not the traditional t hand shape but the point is to be creative. U was actually used for stuck instead of the traditional V and V was used to look down when he realized he didn’t have his gun’s.
omg this is so good.
i had to do one of these in ASL,
and mine was horrible compared to this. lol.
Thank you!! 🙂 I understand..
That R-hand by the mouth is a sign for Cigar.
I don’t understand what you did for “R”?
I am deaf.. It’s great story ABC story!
aww it was cute! i was just wondering if T counts. lol