Short, Easy Dialogues

15 topics: 10 to 77 dialogues per topic, with audio

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Dec. 18, 2016. All 273 Dialogues below are error‐free. NOTE: The number following each title below (which is the same number that follows the corresponding dialogue) is the Flesch‐Kincaid Grade Level. See Flesch‐Kincaid or FREE Readability Formulas, or Readability‐Grader, or Readability‐Score. These grade levels are not "true" grade levels, because the dialogues are not in "true" paragraph form (because of the A: and B: format). However, the grade levels are true in the sense that they are truly relative to one another.


Signing Naturally Homework 911 -

If you are using a digital portal, slow the video to 0.5x or 0.75x speed. If you are using the old DVDs, watch the signer's face first, ignoring the hands. What is their emotion? Frustration? Politeness? That emotion tells you if they are making a request or a demand.

In the ASL student community, this cry for help is often referred to as It is the equivalent of an academic emergency—a unit that feels impossible, a deadline looming at midnight, and a brain that has shut down from glossing fatigue. signing naturally homework 911

Close the workbook. Walk away from the screen. Take three deep breaths. ASL is visual; anxiety ruins visual processing. If you are using a digital portal, slow the video to 0

If you are currently enrolled in an American Sign Language (ASL) course using the Signing Naturally curriculum, you have likely experienced that moment of panic. You are staring at a blank workbook page, the video is playing too fast, and you have no idea what the signer is trying to convey. You need help, and you need it immediately. Frustration

If you are currently in a 911 situation, here is the good news: If you fight through this unit without cheating, Unit 10 will feel easy. Unit 12 will feel fun. And by the time you reach Unit 15 (Talking about Occupations), you will be the one helping others on Reddit.

Pause the video on the signer's hands at the peak of the action. Write down only the verbs (BORROW, GIVE, ASK, TELL). Ignore nouns for a moment. Once you have the action, guess the direction (Who is doing it to whom?).



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