Talking hands 1. Parts 5-6 (Captioned) | ACMI collection | ACMI: Your museum of screen culture

Viewers are introduced to signed English by teaching signs for 300 words most commonly used. Includes practice with short sentences. The vocabulary of the original Talking Hands is extended by 400 signs in Talking Hands 2.

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Credits

Production places

Australia

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

300759

Language

English

Subject categories

Closed captioning

Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Communication

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Deafness

Sound/audio

Captioned

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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