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Summary: Interested in learning sign language signs for foods like mushrooms, tomatoes, broccoli or peas? Learn more about how to sign vegetable words in American Sign Language with tips from a deaf signing expert in this free sign language video.
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Rachel Berman Rachel is a deaf graduate student at Gallaudet University studying audiology. Besides audiology, she is very interested in researching different ways people ... read more
Now I'll teach you signs for vegetables. We're going to be healthy here. Carrots, carrot; avocado, there's no sign for avocado. I usually see people finger spell that one. Mushrooms, mushroom; salad, salad; lettuce, lettuce; tomato, tomato. That's a hard one; I'll show you that one again, tomato. Beans or peas, they both use the same sign; peas, beans. Broccoli is another one that doesn't have a sign; you might describe what it looks like. You might say that it's green and that it's shaped a certain way, and you might say that it's healthy or you don't like the taste of it. Anything that'll help you describe a particular vegetable. Practice those vegetable signs.