A brief lesson in the basics of Auslan; numbers and alphabet. Visit www.auslan.org.au for further info and videos. I’m not a professional, just trying to spread the knowledge that I know, and am open to comments, suggestions, and corrections..
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@alphanipple hes not. go to his channel, it says australian.
why is there an american teaching auslan? oh well haha. guess im not complaining.
with the letter Z the hand thats vertical should hav all fingers curved towards the horizontal hand
@Futurista85 are you doing it left handed for the viewers to copy easier or are you naturally left handed??
@MissBec1994 just do it twise
@kathryn0angle One big difference is that Auslan is two handed when finger spelling with American you use one hand. Auslan looks to be derived from British which comes from Scotland. American from France and so on. The numbers are different as well his first 11 and 12 would be 20 and 30 in ASL the only numbers that were the same were1, 2, 4 and 5. “Me” and My/mine” are the same and the sign for “name” was different.
Cool. Thank you for this !
Cheers James, good stuff.
hi I was just wondering what you do if you want to say the same letter twice? thanks!
@kathryn0angle i agree. sign language should really be as universal as possible.
whats the difference between american and australian sign language?
Good work James. I look forward to video number2
I liked the comments about the differances between the languages… I see that bsl and auslan use the same manual alphabet. My personal preferance is ASL manual but… then again I do also live here!
Good work 🙂
Note 2 thing
“P” u need close 3 fingers index, ring, pinky need close not open but still understand.
“K” Your bit awkard for K lol Just go K point. at front not at rear finger lol but still understand
9.8 / 10 🙂
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So how to deaf people from different English-speaking countries communicate? Is there a “universal” English sign?
@Marcuskristicus ASL (American Sign Language) is incredibly different from Australian Sign Language.
I’m guessing that people who sign with British Sign Language could understand Auslan, but ASL is based on French Sign Language (LSF) and there are very few signs that are similar with Auslan.
How different are the various sign languages? Would an American (say) be able to understand Auslan easily? Or would the Australian have to use a different sign language?
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Although different they were refered to by Ted Johnson a few years ago in research he did. At no point did he intend to create a collective language between the 3, but used the acronym BANZSL as a reference only.
I read it years ago when I studied Auslan.
Most Deaf wont know nor understand what BANZSL means, let alone most of us Auslan Interpreters unless they also read the paper.
But I like how you mentioned it Kiwi539.
loved it, keep up the good work
thanks that was great
I just learnt the whole thing and then realised I was doing it back to front.
That makes sense taking into consideration the history or these three countries and their relations with Britain. Thank you for saying something, I learned something new today.