Thanks to you, I'm really getting the hang of it! I'm just hoping to be able to read fingerspelling (and signs in general) a bit quicker. Getting there, though!

@fay-amieaspen6046

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Good luck 👍

Im completely new to learning bsl and this video has helped me so much so i just wanted to say thank you!!

Thank you for these refreshing reminders !!

this is a great video, most tutorials on how to sign the alphabet do it from the pov of the person signing it, which doesn't really help at all.

Thank you for doing these videos. Let me tell you a little story: I grew up near a very prestigious private school for hearing-impaired children in the UK. When I was a teenager I decided I wanted to be a BSL interpreter and my Dad, relenting from wanting me to be a doctor/lawyer/etc, decided that despite it not paying well as a career it was a worthwhile thing to do with my life, so he agreed to pay for me to have lessons (this involved quite a bit of soul-searching for him, it was a bit of a climbdown!). He set me up an informal chat with one of the senior teachers from the private school, just to find out the best way for me to learn BSL, career potential etc etc. Instead, the teacher told me that they no longer wished the kids to use BSL, and "hopefully" within 20yrs it would be a "dead language" because "all deaf children need to learn to communicate in the REAL world". This, I remind you, was a teacher from a very prestigious fee-paying school specifically for deaf children. She "HOPED" their language would be gone, and she considered only the hearing community to be living in the "REAL" world. I was angry with her attitude then, and I still feel angry 25yrs later. But I thought she knew best so I never pursued it. It's always been my biggest regret and I'm trying to make up for lost time now. [I've just looked up the school, it is still their policy not to use BSL. I understand the reasoning, but the wording that particular teacher used with me was NOT acceptable]

@CommandingHands

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Thank you for sharing this story. It's a shame about the approach from that teacher and the school. Hopefully, if enough people learn BSL and about Deaf culture, opinions like this can be changed. It's great that you are now learning. Thanks for watching and commenting 🤟

Thank you 🙏🏾

I am curious why BSL never adopted the ASL alphabet (since it is one-handed and therefore simpler and more efficient in that way)? I still like that BSL does not rely as much on facial expressions - those made learning ASL too complicated. I am in Europe so learning BSL makes more sense.

One thing I would find helpful personally is a First Person look at these since mirrors flip things and I would like to know by looking at my own hands if I’m making a mistake more easily

I really love your videos, I'm trying to learn BSL at the moment. I'm a software developer but the only video I've seen on how to say software developer wasn't clear to me, is there any chance you could demonstrate it? I find your videos very useful in the way you show the signs exactly as they are and slow enough to really grasp. Thanks!

WAAAH the sign for 'language' is different than i'm use to, threw me off completely 😆 Thanks for the alphabet refresher.