Basic Greetings, Manners and Phrases in BSL for Beginners

Learn how to sign some useful greetings, manners and phrases in BSL for use in everyday conversations. Aimed at beginners and those wanting to expand their vocabulary.

Contents:
0:08 Hello
0:16 Good morning
0:30 Good afternoon
0:42 Good evening
0:57 Good night
1:11 Bye
1:20 See you later
1:35 See you soon
1:49 See you tomorrow
2:06 Welcome
2:19 Hello, welcome
2:32 Nice to see you
2:48 Haven't seen you in ages!
3:02 I'm surprised to see you
3:18 How are you?
3:29 Are you feeling better?
3:46 My name is Dan
4:06 What's your name?
4:26 How can I help you?
4:47 Can you help me?
5:07 Please
5:18 Thank you
5:30 Sorry
5:43 Apology
6:00 Excuse me
6:13 Bless you
6:24 Stay safe
6:41 Be careful please
7:00 Wait
7:12 Wait there please
7:32 Again please
7:48 Slow please
8:04 I know a little sign language
8:43 Quiz

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[ロビン-le]

Thank you. I am autistic and have severe anxiety, and I find it very hard to communicate verbally sometimes. This is very useful to me because a few of my friends and my physics teacher know BSL- so now if I know it and I have a non-verbal episode, I can communicate without writing everything out.

[ColegGwentvideos]

As a teenager who is hard of hearing, might go deaf in the future and doesn't get special BSL classes, these videos really help me out, so thank you Dan plus team.

[madscally]

I was Santa last year for the local community. I used your videos to learn just a little signing incase it was needed. I actually signed to a child ( not brilliantly) to ask what he wanted for xmas, and his face lit up. im refreshing now for this year...just trying to find a course to go on.

[birdii]

1. Hello, welcome! How can I help you?
2. Stay safe, be careful please.
Hope I got these right, thanks for this video! :D

[Lissyknowles]

Hello 0:15
Good morning 0:19
Good afternoon 0:30
Good evening 0:45
Good night 0:59
Bye 1:14
See you later 1:27
See you soon 1:40
See you tomorrow 1:51
Welcome 2:10
Hello, welcome 2:21
Nice to see you 2:35
Haven’t seen you in ages! 2:50
I’m surprised to see you 3:07
How are you? 3:21
Are you feeling better? 3:32
My name is Dan (Name me Dan) 3:48
What’s your name? (Name you what?) 4:08
How can I help you? (Help me-to-you how?) 4:29
Can you help me (Help you-to-me can?) 4:50
Please 5:09
Thank you 5:20
Sorry 5:31
Apology 5:53
Excuse me 6:02
Bless you 6:15
Stay safe 6:26
Be careful please 6:43
Wait 7:01
Wait there please 7:18
Again please 7:33
Slow please 7:54
I know a little sign language (Sign language I know little) 8:06

[karolina]

I was in doing my food shopping yesterday and was in a corner part of the shop next to an employee and another male. All of sudden, the fire alarm went off. I left my basket and did the step to leave but overheard male saying to the lady still working: "come, come". When I turned around, I was him pulling her by her arm (bless him, he was just trying to help) and very confused lady touching/pointing to her ear. I step back and asked her in BSL if she was ok. She showed me again that she was deaf. I showed her that "fire". God, this was my very first time. She said "thank you" and her smile touched me.
Thank you for those clips. I promise to learn more x

[garywade]

I'm here because we have a lad at my works who is the only deaf person he's a proper grafter, we are all ruff & tuff men in what we do . None of us know any BSL but some how we get by in our own way with him with some hand movements & text messages, recently I have wanted to say good morning to him in his own way . Thanks for showing me the basics .

[audiocitizen]

Just starting to learn for a friend and love the videos mate.

[Just]

I don't think I'm ever going to need to use sign language, but it's so interesting and fun to learn!

[kathleenspeller]

Starting to learn sign language as I want to become a teacher and want to ensure I can communicate to students including those with hearing difficulties. So far your videos have been super helpful for breaking down movements so they're easy to see and follow. Thank you

[sreddy]

I love your videos. I work in retail & I think BSL should be on the National Curriculum along with First Aid. Thank you so much. Today at work, the alarms went off & thanks to an amazing mum and your videos! We were both able to reassure her son that everything was ok. I didn't realise how essential BSL is till today. I don't know why it isn't taught in schools.

[_lgl_]

im learning bsl incase i meet any one deaf or a family member goes deaf and these videos have helped me so much i usually struggle learning things but your videos have made it so much easier thanking for making these videos and thanks for existing

[eleven]

When I became interested in sign language many years ago, the classes then were based on SSE (Sign Supported English), following English language syntax.The basic signs as shown here are still relevant - it is how they are used in the context of BSL with its own grammatical structure and means to express something, quite different to SSE. I remain fascinated since the day so long ago passing by three people who were signing to each other in the street and felt a thrill of wonderment. Robert, UK.

[SideSun]

I've been wanting to learn sign language for a while now due to my autism (Sadly, most of the time that I go non-verbal, I either force myself to speak or just write notes because I didnt know it) but it stopped me from processing the information due to most videos not breaking it down enough, but! your videos do just that. They break it down in a way that's easy for me to understand, and easy for me to pick up on words like please and good which are the same no matter what you're signing. It makes this so much easier for me. Thank you, Dan!!

[kassard]

I have wanted to learn BSL ever since I was a little kid but never really found a place to learn and even though the internet has been around for a while now it never occurred to me youtube might have had some videos.
Now having been told that my ear condition means I will eventually become deaf one day I finally thought to search for teaching videos as in person courses cost a bucket load as do some learn online courses. Thank you so much for making these.

[ieatrocks]

I've just found this channel and have been wanting to learn BSL for a while now, as I have autism and so do many of my friends, and so it would be useful for me to know BSL to communicate when I or a friend goes nonverbal. This channel is a goldmine, thank you!!

[yi]

Hi Dan, I really appreciate your videos! My parents in law is deaf but I’m Japanese and currently living in Japan so a chance to learn BSL was very limited until I found your channel. I watched all the videos and wrote down all signs in my note! It’s only a week to go to finally see my parents in law face to face for the first time in almost 4 years so I’m really excited to use signs—- it’s a surprise that I’m learning BSL :) One thing in my mind is there are Scottish so some of sings might be different which is fun to discover! BSL is so interesting!

[shelleydavies]

I work in retail and a lot of our customers are hard of hearing. These phrases are really useful. Thanks for this video.

[bonitaworalert]

Thanks for all the good videos, keep it up!

I've been learning BSL in VR for a few months now. There is a large Deaf community in VRChat, and I've made a lot of friends that I want to get better at communicating with. The signs can be a bit different due to the hand gesture limitations, but your content is still really helpful.

[heyitsjustme]

My friend has autism and bad anxiety and when she is upset or overwhelmed she only talks a little or not at all. She has taught herself sign language and I'm trying to to make it easier to communicate with her and to reassure her when she is stressed. Thank you :)