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#17
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My girlfriend has such a knack for languages in general (fluent French, muddles along in Spanish & German, and blows me out of the water with ASL) that I'm going to try and pick up a BSL and a French sign language book in the next two weeks while I'm abroad. Thought it might be fun to at least know the very basics, especially fingerspelling, in more than one language.
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LSF (French) is closer to ASL than BSL. ASL and BSL are very different. Australian (Auslan) is very similar to BSL and they can converse with each other easily.
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Ok. I'm learning ASL through my local community college so I'm aware of the origins of ASL with LSF as well as what the names Gallaudet, Clerc and Epee mean. Good to know that Auslan and BSL are similar.
I seem to recall seeing an Irish sign language book last spring in Galway which had ASL style one-handed alphabet. I would have thought this would be more closely aligned with BSL. Then again,there's that hate-hate relationship with the British so perhaps not?
I seem to recall seeing an Irish sign language book last spring in Galway which had ASL style one-handed alphabet. I would have thought this would be more closely aligned with BSL. Then again,there's that hate-hate relationship with the British so perhaps not?
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I have encountered Scots who used one-handed fingerspelling and they came from a very small school in Glasgow. It's not consistent throughout the UK. The Irish "H" is different from ours, but the Scots had the same "H" as ASL. I will never understand the UK.
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Easy. He knows ASL. I don't know NZ signs but I have been under the impression it is similar to Australian Sign Languge, which is simiilar to BSL. I'm sure Kiwisurfer can confirm or not. I know Danish Sign Language plus many international signs though. I love international conferences with multiple signed languages used.
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Easy. He knows ASL. I don't know NZ signs but I have been under the impression it is similar to Australian Sign Languge, which is simiilar to BSL. I'm sure Kiwisurfer can confirm or not. I know Danish Sign Language plus many international signs though. I love international conferences with multiple signed languages used.
I went to the WFD Conference in Spain in July -- did any of you go there?
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James
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Can anyone suggest some good sites or message forums pertaining to the international Deaf community? At least a handful of you are clearly well versed as well as well traveled when it comes to this topic. I'm fascinated by it all.
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Yeah, I did go to WFD in Spain. Probably the only deaf who flew in "F" on LH with another friend. I felt bad because some were like, "You're in First?!"
I used points for that trip to WFD - stayed at the Westin Palace and got a huge suite. It's all on video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KABgnmwutaw
Sorry I used ASL... I hardly know BSL or NZSL or Auslan.
In regards to Scotland, it was only two people I came across at the deaf Birmingham Film Festival a couple years ago who were using one hand alphabet. Both said they came from Scotland and they were able to use two hands, but preferred one hand. I even slowed down whilst signing with one hand alphabet, but they both said they had been using one hand at a school in Scotland so were accustomed to it and told me to speed up.
I've never met an Irish using two hand alphabet, all I've met used one. Maybe it's North Ireland you're thinking of? I have seen some use one, some use two.
I used points for that trip to WFD - stayed at the Westin Palace and got a huge suite. It's all on video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KABgnmwutaw
Sorry I used ASL... I hardly know BSL or NZSL or Auslan.
In regards to Scotland, it was only two people I came across at the deaf Birmingham Film Festival a couple years ago who were using one hand alphabet. Both said they came from Scotland and they were able to use two hands, but preferred one hand. I even slowed down whilst signing with one hand alphabet, but they both said they had been using one hand at a school in Scotland so were accustomed to it and told me to speed up.
I've never met an Irish using two hand alphabet, all I've met used one. Maybe it's North Ireland you're thinking of? I have seen some use one, some use two.
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And I understand there's a "Deaf History International" that has long taken place in Europe. For 2009, it is now taking place in RSA. I will absolutely not step foot in RSA until they stop the slaughter of white farmers. It's nauseating.
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Me, too. I am normally deaf & hard of hearing. I am learning more English skills instead ASL. I can hear good from my left ear but, isn't right ear is terribly. I can speak very well myself but, I am not aware that I can't sign very often. That's why I learned more communication skills but, it is improvable more English skills during the tutoring from my teacher. It's importance that I am learned more English skills than ASL.
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Ok. I'm learning ASL through my local community college so I'm aware of the origins of ASL with LSF as well as what the names Gallaudet, Clerc and Epee mean. Good to know that Auslan and BSL are similar.
I seem to recall seeing an Irish sign language book last spring in Galway which had ASL style one-handed alphabet. I would have thought this would be more closely aligned with BSL. Then again,there's that hate-hate relationship with the British so perhaps not?
I seem to recall seeing an Irish sign language book last spring in Galway which had ASL style one-handed alphabet. I would have thought this would be more closely aligned with BSL. Then again,there's that hate-hate relationship with the British so perhaps not?
For an exam in our sign-language class, we had to attend a group lunch and conduct ourselves as if we were deaf. We could use only sign language and had to pretend we could not hear. We were so persuasive that our two waitresses fell for the charade and began talking freely. Discussing the attractiveness of a certain young man in our class, one waitress suggested the other should ask him for a date. "Don't worry," she pressed. "You can overcome the 'language barrier.'" "Oh, I'm not bothered by that," the other young woman replied. "It's those quick hands that worry me."