Customer Review:Multiple Meanings in American Sign Language

By Kellie Ruggles

Date: April 03, 2017

This book is a must have when learning sign and trying to produce ASL as a second language learner. It helps break down and go through the variations in signs for similar English words. It has a lot of good tips, tricks and tools in it to help set you up for success.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By A Customer

Date: April 02, 2017

Excellent resource to increase ones grasp of the language and how to appropriately use it. Lesson from a wide range of aspects of ASL, helpful with idioms and tricky English multiple meanings.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By Satisfied Customer

Date: March 29, 2017

This book is a must have! The English language is a struggle even for people who grew up with it as their native language. To be able to understand and explain what someone means by their word choice can be a struggle. This book is designed for you to succeed in your word and register choices. This book has helped me expand my vocabulary from normal dictionary usage to a broader, more varied useage. I have found that my own word choices has expanded and that my ability to truly understand a word and what its meaning is has also grown. A must have for all interpreters.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By A Customer

Date: March 27, 2017

This book is so great for use in an ASL classroom! I love all the examples for practice understanding the english side of words with multiple meanings in their usage and how applicable it is to the field of Interpreting. Truly a beneficial classroom tool for developing signers who want to further explore the intrigue and complexity that American Sign Language is, as a language. Highly recommended as part of this author's collection of yellow books for studying ASL.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By Eric

Date: March 26, 2017

This book is especially helpful if you're someone like me who struggles a bit with multiple meanings. It breaks the meanings down for you so you can really understand what they mean in English, and are then able to put them back out onto your hands in ASL. It provides great perspective as to how complex and confusing the English language can be. For someone who's first language is ASL and not English, such words and phrases can be confusing. It's important to fully understand them in English before converting them to ASL. Great for interpreting students just starting out.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By A Customer

Date: March 24, 2017

This book is incredibly helpful in terms of learning ASL as a whole, separate language, as opposed to just learning all the signs and matching them with English words. This book helps the reader to really think about the meaning of what they're saying and convey it in the most accurate way possible. ASL students should get this book as early on in their learning as possible.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By A Customer

Date: March 23, 2017

This book is great! It gives you many many examples and gets you thinking about how you would explain some things we say in English that everyone knows what means, in sign language where if you sign it the way it is said in English, wouldn't make a lot of sense! It allows you to think of the ways you would sign it yourself and I found that extremely helpful. I would highly recommend this book.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By A Customer

Date: March 22, 2017

This book has been very helpful in working with my interpreting skills. Love it!

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By Ariel Brown

Date: March 22, 2017

This book is great for making you think deeper about the true meaning of English phrases and converting them into ASL. I will say you should know some ASL before you purchase because the book is more a type of workbook to write in. This book has helped me understand many complex English concepts and I would recommend to any ASL student.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By A Customer

Date: February 15, 2017

2.5 stars. As far as the examples used, I would give this book 5+ stars. However, if you buy it for self-study, I would give it 0 starts. It's essentially worthless for self-study because it has no glossing to show you how the phrases are signed using ASL. You'd be guessing with no way or knowing if what you're doing is correct. I actually gave it to my teacher for classroom use.

Rating: [3 of 5 Stars!]

By Kristen Pfaendtner

Date: May 06, 2016

I love idioms! Figuring out the meaning behind a word or phrase is super fun, until you have only a split second to do it! This book really warms up your brain and gets you thinking about what a word really means. Are you RUNNING for office? RUNNING a race? RUNNING a business? Plus more! Get ready to be challenged with this book.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By Alexa Crossley

Date: May 03, 2016

This book is a total eye-opener to the true complexity of interpreting from English to American Sign Language, and vice versa. This is a thought provoking book to help you consider the multiple meanings of the English language and ASL for a more accurate interpretation. If i ever have a question about which register choice or ASL sign to use for a specific context, this is my go-to book. This is brilliantly written.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By A Customer

Date: May 01, 2016

This book is great even after I was done with the class we used it in I still use it. It is a great way for you to practice not only interpreting English to ASL but it makes you think about which sign would best match for each different use of the same word. It also may help you expand your knowledge of idioms and how to interpret them. There are many many different topics and activities, highly recommended.<br />-Samantha H.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By Erika

Date: April 27, 2016

This book is a must if Idioms are something you need to work on. Interpreting idioms is something I struggle with, this book has helped me be able to deliver the full message of idioms. I love this book, I completely recommend the purchase of this book.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By Zack Enz

Date: April 16, 2016

This is a great learning tool for those struggling with English idioms and the various meanings of one word.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By Heather Melkonian

Date: April 14, 2016

In the English Language: "A word can have a thousand meanings." However, in American Sign Language, one Sign could have a multitude of English descriptive words or phrases. Knowing how to take the context of how a sign is used in an ASL sentence is vital to the translation process from ASL Signing to English Voice Interpreting. This textbook does exactly that. It gives lessons and activities that aid in teaching the basic understanding of how to expand on the many possible meanings of ASL Signs and apply them in a classroom situation. It is a wonderful example of practical knowledge as well as something to hold onto for future reference. I have used this book from cover to cover and I highly recommend this book for first year ASL Students.<br /><br />- Heather Melkonian

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By Brittnie Denhof

Date: April 11, 2016

This book has been a book I referenced many times in my journey of learning. Also while explaining the complexities of interpreting I will reference this book. This book allows for an eye opening experience that allows people to take a step back and think about all the different ways to sign one word depending on the meanings. It provides great practice and I find myself sitting down with friends and discussing how we would sign a word in each context. It is a great learning tool that has significantly helped me be able to think about contextual accuracy. Great book overall and highly recommended.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By Kayla topping

Date: April 10, 2016

I absolutely love this book. In the begining of my sign language journey, I didn't realize the importance of the Multiple Meanings book. This book applies to how important it is to interpret a concept correctly, and not always word for word. It helps make you understand ASL better and deaf culture. I cannot express enough how important it is to to know the real meaning of a word, idiom, or concept! This book has helped tremendously and is a keeper.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By A Customer

Date: April 09, 2016

This book has been a wonderful tool in learning American Sign Language. Most of the book contains lists of sentences. It will list a word like "run" and following that word will be several sentences using the word run in different ways. This is wonderful for practicing different ways of signing things. You are forced to think about what each sentence means, not just what the words are. I got a lot of use out of this both in class and out.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]

By A Rey

Date: February 22, 2016

I love it.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]