try typing in asl and see if that site has what you could use….good luck…
No. Sign language is a universal language.
There are several different sign languages. I could say each country has its own, but that’s not exactly accurate; some countries may share a sign language, while in some other countries there may be more than one. According to Wikipedia, “generally, each spoken language has a sign language counterpart”, but even that is not always true. For example, while “american” is not a real language, “american sign language” is, and it’s different from “british sign language”.
The thing is, sign language, despite what one of the other answerers wrote, isn’t universal. There is an international sign language, but it’s used mainly in international events, it’s not the main communication language for everyday life. If you learn a sign language, you’re going to be learning only one of a big variety of sign languages, just like if you were learning a spoken language.
i know that sign language does have dialects, for example, people up north (uk) who have different accents, and use different words also use different signs to people dwn south,
so i expect that u can learn sign language in a different language, ie spanish
also as, the signs we use are in accordance to the words and meaning we use, i expect it would be like trying to talk english to a spanish person!
Wikipedia has a really good article on sign language. It has more than you might ever want to know about different sign languages.
under “See Also” there is a link to a list of sign-languages.
Great question. Isn’t it ironic that sign language is different in every country? I’ve always thought that there should be a universal sign language, but there’s not. My sister learned sign language in a Latin American country (where they speak Spanish) and she learned that every country in Latin America has its own sign language, and this among countries that speak Spanish!
try typing in asl and see if that site has what you could use….good luck…
No. Sign language is a universal language.
There are several different sign languages. I could say each country has its own, but that’s not exactly accurate; some countries may share a sign language, while in some other countries there may be more than one. According to Wikipedia, “generally, each spoken language has a sign language counterpart”, but even that is not always true. For example, while “american” is not a real language, “american sign language” is, and it’s different from “british sign language”.
The thing is, sign language, despite what one of the other answerers wrote, isn’t universal. There is an international sign language, but it’s used mainly in international events, it’s not the main communication language for everyday life. If you learn a sign language, you’re going to be learning only one of a big variety of sign languages, just like if you were learning a spoken language.
i know that sign language does have dialects, for example, people up north (uk) who have different accents, and use different words also use different signs to people dwn south,
so i expect that u can learn sign language in a different language, ie spanish
also as, the signs we use are in accordance to the words and meaning we use, i expect it would be like trying to talk english to a spanish person!
Wikipedia has a really good article on sign language. It has more than you might ever want to know about different sign languages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_language
under “See Also” there is a link to a list of sign-languages.
Great question. Isn’t it ironic that sign language is different in every country? I’ve always thought that there should be a universal sign language, but there’s not. My sister learned sign language in a Latin American country (where they speak Spanish) and she learned that every country in Latin America has its own sign language, and this among countries that speak Spanish!