Learn basic South African Sign Language

Would you like to learn basic South African Sign Language? Learn to sign? You’re at the right place. Maryna Langenhoven, founder and Managing Member of Talking Hands cc, was the first director and then producer of television programmes for Deaf people in South Africa. In a resultant partnership with Professor Claudine Storbeck, founder of Deaf Education and the Director of The Centre for Deaf Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, a Sign Language video called “Signing to your child” was born.

Academically sound, the video was initially developed to assist hearing parents with deaf babies, but it soon proved to be the ideal “handbook” to learn basic Sign Language. Professor Storbeck is the host of the video and she makes use of a teaching technique called Transitional Bilingualism whereby the teaching of a visual language is accompanied by auditory guidance.