Signing Savvy, Your Sign Language Resource

This is our last sale of the year! 

Save 25% on 1-year and 3-year individual membership and gift memberships.

Use the promo code: THANKYOU2022

It's a great time to try Signing Savvy for the first time, add membership time to your existing membership, or purchase a gift membership for a friend or family member.

Get Signing Savvy Membership for as little as $2.71 per month!

• With the sale, a 3-year membership averages out to only $2.71 per month and a 1-year membership averages out to only $3.12 per month.
• Our regular 1-month membership pricing is $9.95 per month. The current sale saves you 73% over the regular 1-month price when you purchase a 3-year membership and 69% when you purchase a 1-year membership.

With Signing Savvy Membership you get access to all Signing Savvy content and features, with no ads.

Signing Savvy Membership gives you:

• NO ADS! Unlimited access to all of Signing Savvy’s content with no ads!
• THE MEMBER APP FOR ON-THE-GO ACCESS TO SIGNS.
• ACCESS HUNDREDS OF SIGNED SENTENCES. Learning and understanding ASL syntax is always a challenge for new learners and an area of practice needed for more experienced signers as well. You can see hundreds of video examples of full sentences in our library.
• ACCESS TO HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES - FROM SIGNING TIPS TO DEAF CULTURE TOPICS.
• PREMIUM FEATURES - QUIZZING, FLASH CARDS, WORD LISTS AND MORE. The ability to create your own word lists and then use our quizzing and digital flash card tools to practice that vocabulary makes Signing Savvy a fully customizable learning tool to meet your individual needs.
• PRE-BUILT WORD LISTS ON DIFFERENT TOPICS - from more beginner topics like animals and food to more advanced topics like idioms and lexicalized signs.
• DISCOUNT ON OUR ASL ONE-ON-ONE SESSIONS.

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This Thanksgiving, we are thankful for your support!

Thank you for being part of the Signing Savvy community of users. Thank you for using Signing Savvy, giving us your praise, and recommending Signing Savvy to others. We especially want to thank those with full membership!

Love Signing Savvy?

Please consider becoming a member today or purchasing a gift of membership for friends and family this holiday season to gain all the benefits of full membership and to support our continued effort to improve Signing Savvy and make it a sign language learning resource you can trust.

Sale valid Monday, November 21, 2022 through Tuesday, November 29, 2022 11:59 PM. Use promo code: THANKYOU2022 for individual or gift memberships for 1-year and 3-year terms (if you currently have a membership, the new membership time will be added to your account in addition to any membership time you already have).

In the past, we have shared holiday-themed signs around Thanksgiving (See our article: 10 signs to know for Thanksgiving), but we feel strongly that what’s more important than learning to sign a few signs like turkey and pie, is conversational signs.

If you check out the Sign of the Day each day, you will notice the Sign of the Day for Sunday, November 20 is CONVERSATION (as in "talk to someone in sign language”) because this week is recognized as “Better Conversation Week.” Better Conversation Week is always the week of Thanksgiving and it is the perfect time of year for all of us to focus on having better conversations. 

Sometimes our deaf family and friends feel excluded when they come home for the holidays. If everyone isn’t signing, they may feel excluded and feel like they don’t have a place at the table. In honor of Better Conversation Week, in honor of Thanksgiving, and, most of all, in honor of our deaf family and friends, let’s try to sign. Signing is hard and it can be intimidating to sign with a fluent signer when you are feeling insecure about your signing skills, but the number one thing you can do is simply just TRY to sign.

To encourage and support everyone to sign this week, we have unlocked all of our member full example sentences for this week only. This is a member feature, but will be unlocked and freely accessible to everyone this week. 

Click on the “Sentences” tab on the Signing Savvy website to get started. We suggest looking at the section on “Conversational Sentences.” There are lots of great examples of how to sign full sentences. We hope that before you know it, you are feeling comfortable signing "How have you been?” and "It’s good to see you.” 

Signing Savvy Advisory Board member Mary Klein (age 65) passed away Sunday November 6, 2022. Mary (MK to most) was a gifted artist, beloved teacher and loyal friend to those who were fortunate enough to know her well.

Drawing of Mary Klein, gifted to her by a previous student and alumni of LCC’s ITP Program, Mandy Mann.

Signing Savvy will profoundly miss Mary Klein for her expert knowledge, intuitive advice, incredible artistic talent, and dependability. She was also a personal friend that will be greatly missed. 

I met MK on August 14, 1987 when I was Director of Lansing Community College's Interpreter Training Program and she stopped by my office to introduce herself. For years she would recount our initial meeting in incredible detail from what I said (I’m from Indiana and my parents were deaf) to what I was wearing (a yellow Izod sweater, a plaid skirt and penny loafers). I was struck by her impromptu visit but what I vividly remember was her clear signing style. At that time MK was working as an ASL tutor for our Program but it wasn’t long before I was able to convince her to make the transition to adjunct faculty member. MK taught a wide variety of classes (ASL 1-3, Deaf Culture and History, Linguistics, Fingerspelling) and the students loved her. As the years went by MK became our most senior adjunct faculty member and willingly mentored everyone who joined our faculty.  I considered MK to be the backbone of LCC’s ITP Program. She was fiercely loyal not only to me but to our Program’s goal of being the best we could be in our little corner of the world. MK contributed numerous illustrations/artwork for our Program, our textbooks and for Signing Savvy.

Our friendship (inside and outside of work) spanned over 35 years. I like to think I’m the one who got her hooked on cycling. I built her two custom Klein bicycles.

On Left: Brenda Cartwright and Mary Klein;
On Right: Drawing by Mary Klein of Brenda Cartwright that she gifted to her on her birthday.

Her laugh was as distinctive as her huge smile. Note: She never had one cavity in her entire life! MK leaves behind many close family members who loved her and cared for her until the very end. She may be gone but her legacy in Michigan and in our hearts lives on forever.