Feelings and Emotions - Sign Language Tutorials (BSL)

How to say various feelings and emotions in British Sign Language (BSL):

Happy
Excited
Sly
Proud
Confused
Sad
Depressed
Lonely
Hate
Love
Need
Nervous
Awkward
Shy
Sorry
Hungry
Tired
Surprised
Shocked
Jaw-Dropping
Eye-Popping
Jumping For Joy

British Sign Language, like any other language, is regional and differs from place to place. These are the signs I use but all versions are valid.

Watch my other videos to learn more signs:

Tell me in the comments what else you would like to see!

[stefrost]

Tomorrow's the last day of my basic BSL course and your videos have been so helpful for me to practice and remind myself between lessons. Especially as I'm in Brighton and you use most of the same signs my teacher uses. Videos like the hearing aid one etc. are really interesting too. Thank you for doing these.

[eloisedelvat]

I got super excited seeing that you had one of these videos and then promptly got sad when I realized this is BSL and I'm trying to learn ASL. You're still amazing tho! Very interesting to see the differences, mainly Excited and love (as those are the ones I know)

[hannah-mayteeson]

i love this channel. I've only been watching your videos for a couple week now and i have learn't so much.
my best friend is death and she's not very good at lip reading so now i can learn to sign i have a better chance to start speaking to her more so thank you so much xoxoxo

[Hdtjdjbszh]

i've been watching a lot of these sign videos recently and one thing I've wondered is; how do you convey sarcasm in sign?

[-Pridebycreatons-]

Do more video! This is so good. It's humorous too!

[thunderstrike-rwhn]

some very good signs Jessica very well done.... and enjoyable to watch ;.)

[michaelggriffiths]

Why is it every bsl video has different signs for the same words?? The only constant word seems to be (ironically) 'confused'

[lewish_]

facial expressions you make really helps. Thank you

[EdaliaDayCreative]

Awesome. Love your vids. Was looking for awkward and my app only had it in the sense of a person being difficult.

Hope this one fits what I need. I guess I’ll see if not because the situation will be...

[chelseamaymaguire]

Teaching myself how to sign through the use of your videos. They're wonderful!! x

[samiko]

Thanks :) time stamps in the description may help

[Ramiiii]

How would you say I am proud of you? Would you just point to self (me) Proud, point to the other person?

[limengchen]

Hey, Jessica, I wonder if you do music sign tutorial. I have a song that meant a lot to my friend, I would love to learn and sign. Do you think it's doable?

[danel]

Hi can you help me..? i cannot find what heirarcial space refers to in BSL, yes I know topograhy and syntactic but not heirarchy??? please help!1 also affirmation and negation language.. does this refer to yes ans no quite simply or is there something more to the language. Thank you sooo much

[noonesperfect]

I really thought the sign we make up with the hand for heart, will be used for love sign. yikes

[eyxzm]

Feelings
Happy
Exited
Sly
Proud
Confused
Sad
Depressed
Lonely
Hate
Love
Need
Nervous
Awkward
Shy
Sorry
Hungry
Tired
Surprised
Shocked
Jaw dropping
Eye popping
Jumping for joy

[cybremystica]

As a female, I wouldn’t like signing “excited” in BSL. It would draw too much attention to my body