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Sign language: should hearing children learn BSL?

Would you like to learn sign language?  If there’s no opportunity at school or in the family, most people don’t get an opportunity to learn it.   The reason to learn to sign is of course to communicate with D/deaf people.  But as a bonus, signing  can also help hearing people to express themselves more…

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Fingerspelling: how to sign the alphabet onto your hand

Finger spelling does look difficult.  You might have seen a sign interpreter on TV fingerspelling a place name, and been amazed at the speed of it and daunted at the thought of trying to learn it.  But it’s easier than you think.  Here are some “stills” of finger spelling, seen from the speller’s point of…

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Sign Language: why did the chicken cross the road?

With this post I’m carrying on from my post Sign Language and how to learn it, where I wrote about British Sign Language and other sign languages, and showed photos of some random signs. This time I’m showing a joke in BSL.  It’s the sort of joke that makes everyone groan, but it shows something…

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Sign Language and how to learn it

On my travels on trains and on station platforms I sometimes see deaf people signing to each other.  I’ve been a teacher of deaf children and used to sign all day every day, so although I’m a bit rusty I try to understand what the people are saying to each other.  I find it fascinating…

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Hello, I'm Jane, freelance writer, translator and Mum. I'm writing this blog to share our family's multilingual adventures with you. Read More…

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