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Discussion on: Why I'm learning BSL. ✊

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Marcus

I am a native BSL user, it is my main language since birth and BSL has been the main language in our family for 5 generations continuously. I give praise to those who use it for their children to improve early cognitive communication and boose their receptions. Another positive thing is the ability to converse from 100 metres away, through the glass without any sounds and the ability of squashing multiple sentences into a simple quick burst of signs.

Kudos 🙌🏼

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Can I ask are there any code specific signs other than programmer or shall I work on my alphabet?

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Marcus

Nice to meet you too! There is a sign for programmer but we use alphabets for specific codes and languages so you're on the right track there. My advice is to keep practising the alphabets and go from there it will be much easier to pick up the signs and if there's no sign for a specific word we fingerspell it 🤗

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Nice to meet you marcus, I'm currently able to sign maybe 20 words and my son, 26, which I'm still working out, as I say he's got his books. I am excited to get faster and you are right, it's way more efficient, I actually can't keep up with myself yet. Long distance must be super useful!

My partner wears aids and is getting noticably worse so there is a duel purpose, but mostly I think it's a wonderful language. My son likes to say biscuit a lot. 🤣