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Type anything and see how it is signed. Words the language has its own sign for are shown as that sign; everything else is fingerspelled, which is exactly what a signer would do with a name.

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american sign language

1 signed · 3 fingerspelled

myFingerspelled

  1. M
  2. Y

nameHas its own sign

  1. name

isFingerspelled

  1. I
  2. S

KenishaFingerspelled

  1. K
  2. E
  3. N
  4. I
  5. S
  6. H
  7. A

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Step through all 12 signs with your camera checking each one.

this is spelling, not translation

ASL has its own grammar, word order and use of space, and none of that survives a word-by-word mapping from English. What you see above is closer to signed English than to ASL as it is actually used. It is a genuinely useful way to learn handshapes and to spell a name — and a genuinely bad way to build a sentence. For that, learn from Deaf teachers.

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