American Sign Language for Beginners: Learn Signing Essentials in 30 Days (American Sign Language Guides) Paperback – July 28, 2020

I absolutely love this book. It was really helpful in learning. A few things confused me so I did have to look some stuff up but it was great for passing the time in OSUT

Great way to learn sign language. Easy steps to learn at your own pace

I have been practicing. Why? I don't know. There isn't a single person I know that does sign. Read Kelly Parker

Great book to help with asl.

Good

Great gift for my daughter who has a friend who is deaf. She learned to communicate with her. Very special.

Love how it includes ASL grammar. Super fun and easy to follow.

So, starting off this review I would like to just say that this book is pretty good. The way it constructs its lessons is comprehensible-- the thing that I value the most about it is that it gives you "memory tips" underneath certain words to help the signs stick with you easier. It also gives you small activities after the lessons which I find beneficial. The bad aspects of this book are very small and not that significant to the knowledge and information on ASL that you learn, but it's the amount of bad that piled up and made it noticable for me.For those who don't have the time to read my complaints with the book, here's the overall take away: get an ASL dictionary. I mean, you were going to have to anyways with your language learning journey. But the overall flippant disregard for explaining how to do some of the signs/incorrect image placement will make you start to tweak.Anyways here's the wall text:What I find a little disappointing is that the book feels a unpolished. For example, there are a lot of images that aren't where they're suppoused to be. For example in the number section, they show the signs for 18 and 19 with the same picture. This didn't bug me that much since I figured out the number pattern by this point. But it gets worse when the book does this for WORDS as well. Like for the word "why?" The picture goes completely against what the text is telling me to do and I had to search it up instead.A lesser issue I have is that some words that you'd assume would be together just aren't. There's a section of the book about "Asking Questions," and in the description it tells you the facial expression you're supposed to make with "WH-" questions-- specifically Who, What, When, Where, and Why. The book has What, When and Where introduced on pages 19-20, but it has Why introduced on page 50. And Who isn't even included in the book.An even lesser issue I have with the text is that it will describe how to sign the word as well as other additional meanings you could use that sign for. But it's randomized whether or not that additional meaning will be in the description of the text or in the memory tip box. It makes it hard when you try to catalogue which words/phrases you've learned.What upsets me more than this is when the author will say things like "finish [this phrase] with the movement for the sign LATER." This is a beginners book, I don't know the sign for "later," you have to teach it to me first. It doesn't matter if the sign is something as simple as changing the position of your fingers held in the same shape, I would still like to be told how to do it rather than just be shown an image and be told "figure it out." ESPECIALLY if the book has shown me that sometimes the the images can be incorrect.