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-Hello, my name is Victoria, and I teach American sign language at TakeLessons. Do you want to learn some of the best sign language phrases for beginners? After this lesson, you'll be able to make conversation more easily with few greetings, icebreakers, and common questions to ask so keep watching and don't forget to check out our free online ASL classes. [music] Here are some common greetings that we can sign in ASL. There's a few that we can go through. Number one is hello. Our second one is going to be one that we use, mainly just to get someone's attention. Perhaps they're across the room from us and they're not looking directly at us. This word is, hey. All it is is basically waving your hand. Our third greeting is, what's up Let's talk about some introduction phrases that you can use when you meet someone who uses sign language. First, my name is, so we don't have a sign for the word, is, so it's just going to be, my name, my name. You're taking the handshape of the letter H, one is going directly on top of the other and tapped twice. Name. My name and then you fingerspell your name. For example- Another introductory phrase that you can use is, nice to meet you. The way we're going to learn this is, nice, nice, your dominant hand is on the top, sliding across. Nice and then meet you is going to be one entire sign. One finger, your dominant index finger is going to go close to you, one directly in front of you. This is representing you and the individual you're talking to. You is going to move forward like you are meeting the person. That's nice to meet you. Our third phrase is going to be I am learning sign. This is a great phrase to use in your introduction so that whoever you're speaking to is aware that you're not deaf yourself and that you are still learning so they'll slow down and be patient with you and you're signing. This is, I am learning sign. I, pointing to yourself, learn, It's like you're taking information from a book and putting it into your head and then, sign. I'm learning sign. Now we're going to talk about some questions you can ask when you're meeting someone. First, what's your name? It's important to know that since these are questions, our question words are going to go at the end of our sentence. Instead of what's your name, we're going to say, "Your name what?" It'll look like this. Your, Flat palm towards the person you're talking to. Name. What, Remember, that if you're asking a question, you want to lean forward, your eyebrows should come down since you are expecting an actual response. Now we're going to talk about, where are you from, how to sign that. You're going to point, you, from, remember the moving finger is always going to be...