"Auslan is our passion and our goal is to
provide everyone with the opportunity to learn Auslan"
Learn Auslan Online is proud to present this Auslan Level 1 Online course.
The course is comprised of 28 videos, 500+ signs across 19 categories, and over 80 set sentences to practice with. The course is 100% online and as the videos are all prerecorded you can work through the course at times that are convenient to you. Your enrolment also comes with a lifetime of access, meaning you will never be locked out of the course, even after you complete it. There are no restrictions on how many times you can replay a video nor is there a time limit on you having to complete the course.
The online course aims to be fun and to create opportunities for people to develop, renew or update their Auslan skills. You will learn basic information about Auslan grammar and the importance of facial expressions and body language in Auslan.
At the end of the course there is two part assessment for us assess your receptive (understanding what is being signed) and expressive (signing yourself) Auslan skills before we can provide you with your level 1 certificate.
There is a comment section after each lecture where you can ask myself or the school community questions about signs or information you are unsure about.
This course is not an accredited Auslan course. (Accredited courses are 2-3 nights a week or full time days at a TAFE or Uni.)
In each category there is a PDF that lists each sign and sentence used in the video to make it easy for you to practice without watching the video again. To download, please copy and paste to a new word document
I hope you enjoy learning Auslan in this online course and thank you for your interest in Auslan and the Deaf community.
Our Feedback:
"Darren, thank you so much for the way in which you presented Auslan Level 1. You brought humour into it, which I love and made it an enjoyable language to learn. Categorising and breaking it down the way you did was helpful to get through and refer back when needed" - Nada Cevizovic (level 1 student)
Please be aware that even though we are an Australian company, Learn Auslan Online is hosted by an American teaching platform. This means that, depending on your bank, paying by credit card may mean that you incur a foreign transaction fee of 2-4%.
**If you're having trouble with checkout please email: [email protected]**
Course Curriculum
- A message from the Auslan teacher (written message)
- Introduction to Auslan Level 1 online (1:48)
- North and South signs - What does this mean? (8:18)
- Auslan alphabet (3:49)
- Do's and Don'ts of fingerspelling (5:56)
- Fingerspelling Practice (13:41)
- Numbers (including dates, times, ages, years and money) (15:12)
- Depicting signs (DS) (3:58)
- Question signs (with information on grammar, facial expression, eye contact, and body language) (13:17)
- Pleasantries and small talk signing (6:31)
- Depicting Signs activity (5:41)
- Deaf and Disability signs and sentence practice (2:46)
- Money signs (1:23)
- Food and drink signs and money / food and drink sentence practice (4:59)
- Instruction signs and sentence practice (8:49)
- Baby and children signs (2:01)
- Family signs (6:48)
- Timeline signs (2:45)
- Timeline signs and baby / children signs (4:11)
- Timeline signs and family sentences (4:31)
- Emotion signs and sentence practice (6:55)
- Opposite signs and sentence practice (8:14)
- In the community signs and sentence practice (8:56)
- Social activity signs and sentence practice (8:00)
- Colour signs (4:15)
- Animal signs (2:22)
- Numbers, colour and animal signing activity (5:23)
- Transport signs (2:56)
- Auslan Level 1 test (and certificate) (8:26)
- What will you learn in Level 2? (2:39)
Hi, I'm Darren
I established Learn Auslan Online in May 2020 and as of 2021 I have been teaching Auslan professionally for 18 years. I am passionate about teaching Auslan and l hope you become passionate about learning Auslan as well
Since its launch Learn Auslan Online have received enrolments from a wide array of people including: emergency services staff, hospital staff, primary school teachers, childcare educators, university students, families with deaf children, workplaces with deaf colleagues or customers and people just wanting to learn Auslan for fun and to learn a new skill.
I hope you enjoy learning Auslan level 1 and later want to continue to the level 2 course. We also have an Auslan stories, songs and nursery rhymes course for you to develop your Auslan signing skills across different mediums.
Auslan is great fun to learn and l hope you share the language with your family and friends too.
'My Daddy is Deaf' book
My Daddy is Deaf is story from the perspective of a child of what it’s like to have a deaf Dad. His ears may not work and he uses flashing lights around the house to tell him things (like when he’s burning the food!) but he is the same caring, funny, and loveable Dad with hobbies and interests just like others.
This book is perfect for families, childcare centres and primary schools as an insight into being Deaf.
You can order a copy of the book by emailing Darren at:
It is $30 including postage.
