Sign language

ASL video dictionary and inflection guide

May 22nd, 2008 | By Steve | Category: Sign language

The ASL Video Dictionary and Inflection Guide shows thousands of signs in crisp color video and links them to sentences that demonstrate how they change to convey different meanings. This is critical because unlike English words, ASL signs change - inflect - from sentence to sentence to show different meanings. The sign for help, for [...]



Lean BSL online with SignpostBSL

Feb 16th, 2008 | By Steve | Category: Sign language

The Signpost website is a great resource for anyone who wants to learn BSL.
They have a fingerspelling video tutorial that goes through the alphabet - you can zoom the video in and out, you can view it in slow-motion and you can also view left of right-handed spelling. More impressively there is another option that [...]



Learning sign language (BSL and ASL)

Jan 2nd, 2008 | By Steve | Category: Sign language

One of my new year resolutions is to begin learning sign language. It is something I have been thinking about for many years but have never got around to doing. I guess, similar to a spoken language, sign is not something your are going to learn in a short period of time - I think [...]