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British Deaf Association

This is a really cool website, and I have two questions about it.

One, do organizations like the NAD in America have anything like this?

Do the deaf people who watch this and know ASL understand this? I have an American deaf friend who knows almost no BSL and she claimed to be able to understand this website 100%, all signed. I don't know how true this is, considering that she is a pathological liar, but I do know that many deaf people understand each other's languages fairly easily, and learn foreign sign languages very quickly.

I'm very interested in learning foreign sign languages, I've started with BSL, which is how I came across this website. Hope you enjoy and comment
 
I know some BSL, but not enough to understand it all at full speed.
 
deaf ppl could understand body language how i met many here i didnt know ASL before but i could understand them some similar with my native language :)
i think only BSL has both hands alphabet :dunno:
 
FreeWoman77 said:
deaf ppl could understand body language how i met many here i didnt know ASL before but i could understand them some similar with my native language :)
i think only BSL has both hands alphabet :dunno:
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I've seen BSL fingerspelling before.. it is almost like cued speech, and the cued speech use BSL vowels.
 
I never seen BSL, but understood some of signs that I usually see in ASL.


the word sign for community, action, event, and central are way different from ASL.

Action sign is like bother and progress signs combined :confused:
 
I don't know any BSL but I know ASL and JSL. I've been trying to teach myself MSL but it's going slow.
 
FreeWoman77 said:
i think only BSL has both hands alphabet :dunno:
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That is correct BSL is both hands alphabet. Although there are a couple of letters of the alphabet that can be signed using one hand. The letter C comes to mind.
Matt
 
I know some BSL, have learned it from British deaf friends.
But the a-b-c fingerspell with 2 hands is still too fast for me...
I must tell my friends to spell slow.... too fast fingerspell! :D

Here is another webpage for learning BSL: http://www.britishsignlanguage.com/
and http://www.learntosign.org.uk/.

If you are interesting in Swedish Sign Language, here is a webpage to see how we sign: http://www.teckenwebben.se

And another with different European sign languages: http://www.eudeaf2003.org/
 
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