I’m learning BSL in my spare time. I won’t go into detail but basically I’m having some difficulty finding good websites that provide a good range of signs to learn. I thought maybe an online course would be a better option but don’t want to pay too much. What do you think? Could anyone let me know of good websites that I can use?
Thankyou very much ‘Believe the Hype !!!’ for your very detailed message but I’m afraid I am English and am trying to learn british sign language (bsl) which happens to be quite different to american sign language (asl) sorry!
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Try looking into these:
http://www.british-sign.co.uk/
http://www.learnbsl.org/
http://www.royaldeaf.org.uk/page.php?id=100177
http://www.british-sign-online.co.uk/
Hopefully one or more of the above are helpful……..
if not……………….
I’m sure if you google it, you’ll come up with a hundred more results
To find some appropriate sites, we browsed our way to Yahoo!’s Sign Languages category (under Social Science > Linguistics). We could have also searched for the phrase “sign language” and gotten the same result.
Once there, we spotted several sites dedicated to teaching the positions and movements that comprise American Sign Language (the “standard” for those communicating by hand).
The first, listed as the Animated American Sign Language Dictionary, is especially nice in that the moves used to make up specific words and phrases are illustrated using animated GIFs (quick-loading mini-movies).
Next is SIGNhear, a well-organized site from Thinkquest, a yearly student design contest and source of educational web sites. You won’t find animations, but there are clear, simple illustrations for letters, numbers, and many elementary words.
Finally, not as wide-ranging as the previous sites, American Sign Language Fingerspelling is still worth noting. It photographically illustrates each of the 26 letters of the ASL alphabet and allows you to “convert” words from text to their fingerspelling equivalents. There is also a quiz, which is useful for serious students of the language.