A must for all Erstgebärdenden ;-))

For anyone who wants to deal with the German sign language, this DVD is a real gem and I do not want to miss. Drawings can reflect only relatively insufficient, the proper execution of a gesture and their movement flow, a video is here to lengths clearer and more useful.

(To get a visual impression of the program, you can top left below the photo on Kundenbilder Click. Furthermore you will have four screenshots from me, if you hover your cursor over the individual menu areas, you gain additional notes.

Handling of the program:

The software is very user-friendly, clear and uncomplicated. It's fun with this program to work and after a few minutes you have the basics figured. By clicking on a sentence or word automatically starts the corresponding video, either as a continuous loop or only once. The icon with the worm activates immensely useful slow motion, the speed is in the field system "adjustable. If necessary you can hack using the frame function in small portions the video in both directions.

Learn sign:

With the help of the program can be own word lists Create, selected words are simply transferred by double. In this way you can very quickly put together a very personal vocabulary. By defining user names several people can simultaneously use the program without having to get in the way with their lists.

About the quiz feature can be used to query even. A random video appear (of course without the written word), by clicking on the supposedly correct word or input via keyboard (goes especially with long lists more quickly) the response is submitted and evaluated by the software to be correct "or wrong". Desperately you completely in a term, you can display the solution also.

Structure of the DVD:

1. The vocabulary is divided into nearly 60 topics (headings), it can be also a complete list of all the words to call:

DVD 1: Exclamation, clothing, properties, family, question words, household and housing, physique, body care, food and kitchen, pronoun and other parts of speech, religion, school, activities, animals, environment, traffic, weather, numbers and dimensions, time and calendar

DVD 2: work and education, medical and medicine, car, disability, Jobs, Computer, color, finger spelling, feelings and more, money, countries, modal verbs, politics and authority, sexuality, language, entertainment, Urlauf, Human Interest

DVD 3: banking, counseling and therapy, marriage, Research, Photography, Leisure, and Hobby, history, resources, kindergarten, hospital, hospital admission, food, sea, police and court, restaurant, pregnancy and childbirth, sports, accident, lessons, Rental, choice, tools and materials.

2. Rates: The sample sets are taken from the fields of calls, statements, questions and times. On the DVD 1, there are slight Sample sentences, on DVD 2 moderate and on DVD 3 heavy Sample sentences. Only in one sentence you can begin to recognize the structure of sign language and their completely different type grammar.

3. Grammar: This area is kept relatively scarce, but are a very good introduction to the topic. The following topics are covered: Comments on the glosses, explanations, grammar, dates, questions, gesture OWNERSHIP, idioms, matching verbs direction verbs orientation verbs, facial expressions, INDEX, negation, declarative sentence, the sign space, classification by hand shape, prompt gesture ON, further reading.

4. Learning List: Here you can create (see above) personal vocabulary lists.

5. Statistics: Who can be queried via the Quiz function, receives an evaluation here. Number of answers Percentage correct answers and average time per response.

6. System: Here you can modify some basic settings, such as the speed of the slow motion.

Conclusion: At first glance, the total price seems a bit daunting, but the price-performance ratio in my eyes is absolutely fine. For all Erstgebärdenden highly recommended! ;-))