i want to learn how to sign but……..
is it more useful for me to learn american or british SIGN LANGUAGE???
also, how long do will it take me?
i have been learning spanish for about three years and french for four years and i can communicate really well in them but will it take longer or shorter to make the same progress in sign language?
thanks guys x
it seems complicated, is it easy once you get started just like foriegn languages?
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SOME OF THE SIGNS ARE THE SAME BUY A BOOK AND TEACH YOURSELF SIGN LANGUAGE GOOD LUCK
Sounds like you’re pretty good at learning languages – I wouldn’t fret about difficulty if I were you. As far as which one you should learn goes; where will you be using it? Go with your home language, I’d say.
Before I learned American SIgn Language (ASL), I had already learned Spanish for 3 years and was raised speaking Korean and English. ASL, in my opinion, is much easier. Seeing as it’s its own langauge, it has more possibilities than BSL. From what I understand, English sign is just putting a sign to a word, so it doesn’t consititue as it’s own langauge. ASL, on the other hand, has it’s own sentence structure and has much more room for creativity.
One doesn’t have to know the vocabulary (signs) and follow the sentence structure like a rulebook to communicate. Sign langauge, on the most part, is conceptual. Using some basic handshapes, body langauge, and facial expression, a point can easily be conveyed. People who find spoken langauges difficult sometimes find sign langauge simple, but beware, it can go the other way too.
Since sign language is conceptual, it’s much easier for an ASL signer to pick up French Sign Language as it would be for a hearing/speaking American to pick up the French language.
I think having sign language under one’s belt is EXTREMELY useful. As for the the choice between choice sign language to use, it depends on where you live. BSL and ASL are very different; ASL is actually more closely related to French Sign Langauge.
My guess would be to learn ASL. I know that people in other countries use it.