How long to learn bsl

From what I have read, you have learned a few words and possibly phrases from youtube? Have you been to your local Deaf club at all? You will learn far better by face to face interaction than youtube. Also may I ask if you are familiar with Deaf culture and Deaf awareness? From my own experiences of learning BSL, using online resources is more of a back-up and reminder.

Your enthusiasm for wanting to high-light an important minority is to be commended; but you need to interact with the Deaf community and see if there are any Deaf people who would like to be involved in your project, and also get feedback if they think it is a viable and good idea.

If there is just one sentence of advice I would give: take your cue and guidance from the Deaf community and not the hearing community on this. Best of luck. Pauline Roberts — Thank you for your really valuable comment. This article was another attempt on my half to try to find Deaf people and BSL signers who might be interested in joining the project or taking it over.

I have no intention of teaching BSL, I should make that pretty clear. I also know from experience! I would have liked to go on and fully qualified but I am retired and not allowed to earn any money signing. So had to stop. Kate, it is very commendable what you are trying to do. Iam bilingual in spoken English and BSL. I have lived virtually my whole life in the deaf community and Iam being honest when I say you may have great difficulty in finding deaf native BSL users for your project.

Hence the difficulty you say you have had searching on Facebook and Twitter for deaf people. This may puzzle you since one would expect to find enthusiastic deaf people to share and help others embrace their language. However, this is not the case in Britain today and I may have found the reasons why: when hearing people learn BSL some of them then go on to be interpreters earning thousands of pounds per year. What good reason is there to help? The Deaf Community is getting rather a raw deal in life.

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