The words for 'easy' in most spoken languages and signed languages are kind of easy like "easy" in English, "facile" in French, "einfach" in German, "lehko" in Ukrainian, "laykht" in Yiddish, and and this one in ASL.
How easy is it to learn sign language? Answer soon.
What is the sign for 'easy' in American Sign Language?
Definition: Achieved without great effort; presenting few difficulties.
Pronunciation (sign description): Dominant bent-flat hand (handshape), half behind non-dominant bent-flat hand (location), palms facing in (orientation), tips of dominant hand flicks twice on back of fingers of non-dominant hand.
Deaf signers do inflect this base of word to convey synonyms such as "too easy", "easy!", "so easy", and so on.
Synonyms: easy as pie/peasy, EFFORTLESS, FACILE, PAINLESS, SIMPLE, STRAIGHTFORWARD, SMOOTH,UNCOMPLICATED, no sweat, USER-FRIENDLY.
How is it easy to learn sign language? See the comics below for a short answer or the article for a long version.
Again and again, a hearing person thinks that learning a signed language is easy. Sure, for the first few signs or several signs (no different for any spoken languages) up to the beginner level.
And, not to mention grammar.
Hey, where are you going? Learning grammar is inevitable.
Then after that, you sweat all the way to the interpreting level after several years. This fluent level is about halfway away from the native level. It's still difficult to interpret for a native-level, fast-talking, culturally Deaf who was born into and grew up in a Deaf family, Deaf community, and Deaf schools which is a minority of a minority. :)
Contrary to the assumption, signed languages are not easier to learn than spoken languages.
First 100 words.
As you feel more comfortable with the first few hundreds of ASL signs, progress further with your vocabulary and learn signing more.