Just a couple of videos for you today from the You Tube channel of me attempting (pretty poorly) to sign.
Whilst I'm fairly certain that I'm butchering these signs a tad and wouldn't exactly recommend my videos to anyone as a learning tool, recording them has been a great way to push myself to practise, and learn what I'm doing wrong - as amateurish as these may look, they are not even first takes!!
It seems that signing with the hands and expressing ideas facially simultaneously is a lot more difficult that one would imagine!
I've also been discovering, via the Sign BSL app and the BSL - British Sign Language facebook page, the extent to which BSL is a living language, not one concocted in a lab by hearing people to offer a chic method of communication for the Deaf Community.
Just like with any spoken language there are different sign variations for some ideas. I've recorded a couple that I've come across to demonstrate how different these variations can be.
Just like with any spoken language there are different sign variations for some ideas. I've recorded a couple that I've come across to demonstrate how different these variations can be.
This is a bit scary to a beginner, but I guess there weren't likely to be any shortcuts to learning this language just because it's visual, rather than spoken/written.
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