BSL, British Sign Language, The Alphabet and Fingerspelling, Lesson 1

1. Introduction: Hello everybody. My name is Molly and welcome to British Sign Language, also known as BSL. Throw each lesson you will gain new signs as well as confidence while communicating and British Sign Language. And today's lesson, lesson one, we're going to learn all about the alphabet and had to do something called finger spelling. 2. Primary Hand: But first we have to decide on our primary hand. This is the hand that will do most of the movement while we're signing. You can use whatever you like, but most people use the hand that they choose to write with. For me, I'm right handed, so I'll be using my right hand. You can use whatever hand you feel more comfortable and confident with. Just choose a hand that feels right for you. If you've chosen your right hand, like me, you can say along with me with the same hand. If your chosen your left hand, simply swap the signs over. As I said, I'm right handed, so my right hand will be more prominent hand to use for same. However, if you're left-handed, you don't need to worry. Just simply swap the signs over. For instance, a becomes m, becomes m. E becomes. Now on to the alphabet. 3. Vowels: Now onto the alphabet. One thing to know about BSL, which is different to ASL, which is American Sign Language or iris. And language is that the alphabet actually uses both hands are secondary hand. Signs are volts. Each finger represents a different vowel. Starting with our thumb, a, E, I, O, U. That was quite quick. So let's go through that again to sign it. We put our secondary hand and we take our pointer finger of our primary hand and simply point to the vowel. We wish to use. A, E, I, O, U. Let's try that again. A E I, O, U. Now you try. Now we know our vowels. I'm going to take you through the whole alphabet. Don't worry if you don't pick up. I'm just going to run through all so you can kind of get an idea of what it's like. Starting off with a, B, C, D E, F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T, U, V, W, X, Y and Z. To worry if you didn't pick that up, I just wanted to take you through the entire alphabet so you can get an idea of what it's like. Now we're gonna go back to the beginning of the alphabet and break each letter down and show you how to sign it. 4. ABCD: With a which we know from our vows, we use our pointer finger and point to her thumb. This is a design B. We want to use two hands, make circles and put them together. The letter b, for the letter c, We want to make a C-shape with our right hand. C. For the letter d. We want to take that C-shape and add our pointer finger from our secondary hand. Dy 5. EFGH: Our letter E is another vote, which we know. E. For F. We want to take two fingers on our right hand and two fingers on our left hand. We want to pop are prominent hand on top. Try that again. For the letter G, we want to make two fists and we want to pop our again, our right hand on top, g. Let's try that again. G. For the lessor h, We want to take our secondary hands and pop it flat. Our primary hand slides along or secondary hand. Hitch. 6. IJKL: I is another vowel which we know. For the letter J, we want to start at the top of our letter I and sign a, G. G. For our electric K, we want to take our pointer finger over primary hand and bend it like this. I'm place it like so. And again, for our letter L, we want to place one finger on the palm of our secondary hand. 7. MNOP: Lesser n, we want to take three fingers and place it on our secondary Holland. And again, for our letter n, We take two fingers from our primary hand and place them on the palm of her second. N. N, R letter O. We know again from vowels, o, our letter p, We want to make an O shape with our thumb and our pointer finger. And place it on our pointer finger over secondary hand, P, which forms a letter P. 8. QRST: For our electric q, we want to take our pointer finger and make a lighter kid. Again. A fun way to remember this one as a field like a pirate, our letter S, We want to take our two pen keys and interlock them. For the letter T. We won't stick our pointer finger and place it at bottom over pump just like this. D Try that again. 9. UVWX: Are you, we know as our last vote. For the lesser V, we want to make electric v-shape with two fingers and place them on the palm of our secondary hand. B. For letter w, We want to interlock Oliver fingers like so. W. W. For electric x, we want to take both pointer fingers of both hands and simply cross them over x. X. 10. YZ : For our letter, why we want to take our secondary hand. And this shape here kind of looks like a y and we want to add the two, but going down with our primary hand, why? Let's try that again. Why? Our last letter? You want to take our secondary hand flat and our primary hand at almost a right angle and placed them together. Now let's try altogether. If you're unsure, I can't remember any of the signs. Go back, watch the videos, then come back here and we'll try again. A, B, C, D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U, V, W, X, Y, and Z. 11. Fingerspelling: The alphabet is really important because you'll use the alphabet whenever you fingerspell. Fingerspell is when you spell it, the word you want to make. This is the same for fingerspell. Try it with me. Fingerspell. Example or finger spelling would be your name. For instance, my name is M, O, L, L, Y. Molly. Take a few moments and spell your name. For instance. S, E, R, H, Sarah, or H, O, L, Y, Holly. 12. Game: To get you more comfortable and confident using BSL, I've devised again. I'm going to say the word using the alphabet. Give you a few seconds and then reveal what the word was. If you want and you find it helpful. You could grab a paper and a pencil and write down the individual letters you see misspelling. Number one. And again one more time. Did you guess it? The word was smart? Number two. And again, one more time. Did you guess it? The word was pen. Number three. And again, once more. Did you get the word was stars? Number four. And the end. Once more. Did you get it? The word was dog. Number five. And again, one more time. Did you guess it? The word was piano. Number six, our final one. And again, once more. Did you guess it? The word was back. 13. Outro: Thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this lesson. Keep practicing your finger spelling to get more confident with the alphabet. And I'll see you next time for numbers and colors. By.