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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

2 signed · 1 fingerspelled · 1 omitted

myHas its own sign

  1. my

nameHas its own sign

  1. name

isOmitted in ASL

Usually omitted in ASL rather than fingerspelled

KenishaFingerspelled

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

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Step through all 9 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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