I attended TAFE last year to study Business Administration Certificate II, and being part of a Virtual Enterprise (VE) (a business we students ran, learning how to run a business by working with other VEs), there was an event students could go to, called an Trade Fair. Basically, a big room(s) where different VEs set up stalls and their virtual products for others (VEs, public, schoolchildren) to buy. (I was at a friend’s b/day party. Would have loved to go.)
Because the Trade Fair was International, there was going to be a lot of cultures and also students from China there, so we were given a crash course on finger signing AUSLAN, as the deaf are also a culture.
I loved it, and now want to learn it and also communicate with people using AUSLAN (I am hearing.)
A good site is the Auslan Sign Bank, where you can view a finger spelling dictionary, and watch videos of words being signed while you try to guess what they are.
http://www.auslan.org.au/fingerspellingtwohanded.html
