
<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>February 14, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>Matjaž Juhart from Slovenia wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="610011708-14022006"><FONT color="#0000ff"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: -khtml-left; ">of course we will come to learn in any workshop there will be organized. and we are interested to buy manual on how to start.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hello Matjaz!</DIV><DIV>Wonderful to hear from you again. I am sorry I am late with sending you materials and information through the postal mail, and I hope to get to that soon, however, even when you receive those materials, it is best to learn with me here on the SignWriting List...Consider this a workshop, right here, on the List! And it is free...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ask me questions, and I will answer...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Everyone is at different levels of skill here on the List, so you need to ask me questions directly. It is great that you are beginning. Your questions are welcome.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B>QUESTION</B></DIV><DIV><B>How do I start learning SignWriting?</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B>ANSWER</B></DIV><DIV>There are TWO important ways to start...and both should be done together</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></DIV><DIV><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></DIV><DIV><B>1. Read the official textbook :</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B>Download it for free:</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Lessons in SignWriting Textbook</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs2/sw0116-Lessons-SignWriting.pdf">http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs2/sw0116-Lessons-SignWriting.pdf</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></DIV><DIV><B>Read it directly on the web for free:</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Lessons in SignWriting Textbook on the Web</DIV><DIV><A href="http://signwriting.org/lessons/lessonsw/lessonsweb.html">http://signwriting.org/lessons/lessonsw/lessonsweb.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B>2. Write your first Slovenian sign in SignPuddle</B></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>What is the number 1 in Slovenian Sign Language? Show us a diagram of your numbers 1-10, and I can help you write those...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Try to write it in SignPuddle. How?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Go to:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B>Slovenian SignPuddle</B></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle/sgn-SI">http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle/sgn-SI</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>See the icons to the left. Scroll down the page and click on SignMaker Icon. Try!...drag symbols over to a SignBox...add your sign to the dictionary...write again when you need help...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I look forward to teaching you SignWriting, step by step, right here on the SignWriting List...</DIV></DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:BFEC4E37-368C-4D16-AA31-70FB0CFDE1CC@local"></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>