Introduction to Sign Language

Sign language is a language which chiefly uses manual communication to convey meaning, as opposed to spoken language. This can involve simultaneously combining hand shapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to express a speaker’s thoughts. Sign languages share many similarities with spoken languages (sometimes called “oral languages”), which depend primarily on sound, and linguists consider both to be types of natural language. Although there are some significant differences between signed and spoken languages, such as how they use space grammatically, sign languages show the same linguistic properties and use the same language faculty as do spoken languages. They should not be confused with body language, which is a kind of non-linguistic communication.

Marwan will guidde through the first step of learning Sign Language.
The workshop will talk about a briefing about the history of the Lebanese Sign Language, and how the deaf people learn it.

By the end of the workshop, you will learn the basic Lebanese Sign Language including the following:
– Weekdays
– Months of the year
– Name of some countries
– Emotions
– Seasons
– Colors
– Basic sentences

Cost
$20

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