I passed my first exam!

by eddie Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:19 pm

100% in my initial starter BSL (British Sign Language) course!

Who's buying me a well done pressie? Cool

by Guest Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:35 pm

by Eilzel Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:50 pm

Good job. My present is eternal friendship- cherish it Smile

by Eilzel Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:50 pm

Seriously though, well done!

by Ben Reilly Tue Jan 31, 2017 4:22 pm

Guess you'll need one of these for your celebration!

I passed my first exam! HudCRgj

by Guest Tue Jan 31, 2017 4:24 pm

eddie wrote:

100% in my initial starter BSL (British Sign Language) course!

Who's buying me a well done pressie?

I'm also learning BSL - well done eddie .
How are you finding it ?

by eddie Tue Jan 31, 2017 4:30 pm

And Vod, I'm finding it relatively okay so far? I have a pretty photographic memory and I tend to make each sign, make sense to what the word is.
Where are you up to?

by eddie Tue Jan 31, 2017 4:31 pm

Ben Reilly wrote:Guess you'll need one of these for your celebration!

A wrench and cup? scratch

by Guest Tue Jan 31, 2017 4:33 pm

eddie wrote:

And Vod, I'm finding it relatively okay so far? I have a pretty photographic memory and I tend to make each sign, make sense to what the word is.
Where are you up to?

Not on a course learning from youtube , i have enquired about courses but never get a reply . I love sign language and it is something i have always wanted to learn.

by Guest Tue Jan 31, 2017 4:35 pm

Learning from youtube isn't ideal as some of the signing you cannot see it properly that's why i need a course .

by eddie Tue Jan 31, 2017 4:37 pm

Trouble with learning on YouTube is there are so many people showing you different signs for different things.
I've learned that sign language is a bit like a personal dialect where each tutor will show you a sign slightly differently. There are about three or four signs for Post Office, for example and you have to know them all in case the deaf person you're communicating with knows only one for "Post office" (though they're all pretty self-explanatory signs anyway).

by eddie Tue Jan 31, 2017 4:39 pm

Also, some signs have nothing to do with the word you're trying to sign! The sign for "girl" is an index finger down and off your face - which I had to make into a picture of it being blusher applied (feminine) so I was able to remember it.

by Guest Tue Jan 31, 2017 4:39 pm

eddie wrote:Trouble with learning on YouTube is there are so many people showing you different signs for different things.
I've learned that sign language is a bit like a personal dialect where each tutor will show you a sign slightly differently. There are about three or four signs for Post Office, for example and you have to know them all in case the deaf person you're communicating with knows only one for "Post office" (though they're all pretty self-explanatory signs anyway).

Agree with that and not every word is signed either for example in a song .

by eddie Tue Jan 31, 2017 4:50 pm

You don't sign every word in a common sentence either.
For example;

"Where do you live?"
Becomes
"You live where?"

It's really like shortening each sentience with the question word, always going on the end.

by Guest Tue Jan 31, 2017 4:56 pm

eddie wrote:You don't sign every word in a common sentence either.
For example;

"Where do you live?"
Becomes
"You live where?"

It's really like shortening each sentience with the question word, always going on the end.

Yes , there is a woman at church who signs and she teaches me - we sign the songs together . I find it so easy signing songs .

by Syl Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:00 pm

eddie wrote:

100% in my initial starter BSL (British Sign Language) course!

Who's buying me a well done pressie?

Well done Eddie...you cant get better than 100%. Cool

Here's my pressie for you, a nice chilled glass of cyber wine....I got it up from my cellar specially. x
I passed my first exam! Smileycheersblank-vi

by Ben Reilly Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:17 pm

eddie wrote:
Ben Reilly wrote:Guess you'll need one of these for your celebration!

A wrench and cup?

The interwebz says that's a bottle-opener.

by Miffs2 Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:27 pm

eddie wrote:You don't sign every word in a common sentence either.
For example;

"Where do you live?"
Becomes
"You live where?"

It's really like shortening each sentience with the question word, always going on the end.

You shortening sentences?! Good luck with that I passed my first exam! 2385359624

seriously, well done Edds I passed my first exam! 2089010162

by eddie Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:43 pm

Syl wrote:
eddie wrote:

100% in my initial starter BSL (British Sign Language) course!

Who's buying me a well done pressie?

Well done Eddie...you cant get better than 100%.

Here's my pressie for you, a nice chilled glass of cyber wine....I got it up from my cellar specially. x

You're a kind old stick.

by eddie Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:44 pm

Ben Reilly wrote:
eddie wrote:
Ben Reilly wrote:Guess you'll need one of these for your celebration!

A wrench and cup?

The interwebz says that's a bottle-opener.

It's American sign filth.

by eddie Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:44 pm

Miffs2 wrote:
eddie wrote:You don't sign every word in a common sentence either.
For example;

"Where do you live?"
Becomes
"You live where?"

It's really like shortening each sentience with the question word, always going on the end.

You shortening sentences?! Good luck with that

seriously, well done Edds

Yeah it means I'll have less to say to the deaf miffs. Pffffff.

by Syl Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:45 pm

eddie wrote:
Syl wrote:

Well done Eddie...you cant get better than 100%.

Here's my pressie for you, a nice chilled glass of cyber wine....I got it up from my cellar specially. x

You're a kind old stick.

Less of the 'old'. I passed my first exam! 3201073460

by Ben Reilly Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:46 pm

eddie wrote:
Ben Reilly wrote:
eddie wrote:
Ben Reilly wrote:Guess you'll need one of these for your celebration!

A wrench and cup?

The interwebz says that's a bottle-opener.

It's American sign filth.

The interwebz says that's BSL.

by Raggamuffin Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:47 pm

Well done eddie! cheers

by Syl Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:49 pm

Ben Reilly wrote:
eddie wrote:

It's American sign filth.

The interwebz says that's BSL.

I guessed what he meant, and I'm not even deaf. Laughing

by eddie Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:50 pm

That's not what I learned on my course and I got 100 so whatevs.
And I knew it was a bottle opener but I like to make Ben work hard at typing replies I passed my first exam! 3489511464

by Ben Reilly Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:51 pm

eddie wrote:That's not what I learned on my course and I got 100 so whatevs.
And I knew it was a bottle opener but I like to make Ben work hard at typing replies

Banned for trolling the forum big-daddy

by Ben Reilly Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:52 pm

That's just wrong. I have a serious spasm in my right middle finger.

But I bet I could still stick it up at you Twisted Evil

by eddie Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:56 pm

Ben Reilly wrote:That's just wrong. I have a serious spasm in my right middle finger.

But I bet I could still stick it up at you

I isn't know the sign for that I'm a highly educated people fam. Cool

by Original Quill Tue Jan 31, 2017 7:36 pm

Good job.

Do the British sign in British, or English?

by Tommy Monk Tue Jan 31, 2017 7:48 pm

Good on you eddie baby!!!

Laughing

by Victorismyhero Tue Jan 31, 2017 9:20 pm

Well done U

by eddie Wed Feb 01, 2017 7:25 am

Thank you to everyone and Quill, we sign in English.

Sign language isn't universal and American, Australian and English signing is all different! Which I think is crazy. I do believe Americans sign using mainly one hand wheras we use two.

by Fred Moletrousers Wed Feb 01, 2017 11:31 am

Vicar of Dibley (vod) wrote:
eddie wrote:

And Vod, I'm finding it relatively okay so far? I have a pretty photographic memory and I tend to make each sign, make sense to what the word is.
Where are you up to?

Not on a course learning from youtube , i have enquired about courses but never get a reply . I love sign language and it is something i have always wanted to learn.

We British Land Rover freaks have our own special sign language which we direct exclusively at the drivers of American Jeeps. Very racist of us, I shamefully admit......

by nicko Wed Feb 01, 2017 12:08 pm

Edmund, in my Range Rover my son does the exact thing to drivers of Toyota Land Cruisers !

by Fred Moletrousers Wed Feb 01, 2017 12:42 pm

nicko wrote:Edmund, in my Range Rover my son does the exact thing to drivers of Toyota Land Cruisers !

In my local Land Rover Club anyone even mentioning the word "Jeep" has to put a quid in the club swear box!

by HoratioTarr Wed Feb 01, 2017 8:46 pm

eddie wrote:

100% in my initial starter BSL (British Sign Language) course!

Who's buying me a well done pressie?

Well done you.

by eddie Wed Feb 01, 2017 9:27 pm

HoratioTarr wrote:
eddie wrote:

100% in my initial starter BSL (British Sign Language) course!

Who's buying me a well done pressie?

Well done you.

Thanks Horatio.
Just waiting for a voluntary placement at a school for special needs which has a large deaf unit for the whole area. Waiting for the DBS check.

by eddie Wed Feb 01, 2017 10:38 pm

Vod, this may or may not help

http://www.batod.org.uk/content/resources/materials/sign-resources/Sign_linguistics_in_a_nutshell.pdf

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