BSL Alphabet

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[SunflowersRays]

I'm an American Sign Language interpreting major, and I trying to learn this. I think it's interesting how the ASL sign for "nice" is the same as the BSL sign for "H"

[Born_Again_Viking]

I'll stick to ASL lol. Much less complicated. I have huge respect for those learning BSL

[megallardoc]

This looks more complicated than ASL, having to use both hands for each letter. But it's quite interesting to see.

[mazasvlogs]

This video is really helpful to learn the alphabet in bsl sign language

[RealCheeseOnly]

So crazy how different asl and bsl are. ASL uses just one hand for all letters, but BSL uses two. Must be annoying to sign while holding something. 😅 I assume there are shortcuts for one hand in bsl.

[REAL_MPSS]

I remember some of that from school in England, late 70s. That was texting.

[GoddessNeith]

Wow that's very different from American Sign Language. I'm slow, but learning it.

[avatroop]

A.S.L is more wildly used. 75% more people use it. If learning sign language is not your thing, don’t panic written English communication and speech to text apps are common place in the 21st century 🎉🇬🇧

[gonfreecss]

I have a question if you see this does it matter which hand (as in left or right) you sign with will the meaning still be the same?
Sorry I’m new to thsi

[angelsohana]

Does it matter which hand you use for the action or are both understood?

[scarlet..]

Does it matter which hand i sign the letters with? For example, Y - does it need to be my right hand spread out?

[Weirdisjustabrownandyellowword]

I'm autistic with selective mutism and considering sign language to help me when I'm non-verbal, but I have a lot of hand stims so I'm worried I'd have to hold them in if there was a risk of them being misinterpreted as sign language. How can I use sign language and still stim freely without people thinking I'm signing?

[matthewjohnson]

"Looks tougher to learn, what is a person who is death supposed to do if he or she only has 1 arm when it comes to BLS?

[renegadeforlife]

Taking a second language and my college offered ASL, so I just started with ASL 101 and man if you seen this shit, what is this? H is nice, half their alphabet requires your non dominant hand, w doesn’t make sense (it doesn’t look like it could be a w). I’m preparing to transfer next year after I graduate to Northern Ireland and was going to try my hand (pun intended) at BSL, but not after seeing how different it is. I thought there would be a some minor differences, but not this. Guess I’ll settle for Gaelic.

[alexblue]

I'm Scottish i have been watching YouTube videos about sign language asl much easier especially the alphabet you can do one handed BSL you need two hands not very practical if you have to carry a shopping bag

[mandyrandomsurname]

Should be from a topdown view, love. This isn't clear at all.

[realhojo]

This is why the Americans won the Revolutionary War.

[Blackstock]

I gave this a thumbs down because the hand orientation isn't correct, sorry. It would be useful to have a deaf person posting BSL videos for you.