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Hi I work as a phlebotomist in a hospital and excited to be able to communicate with deaf patients.

Hello! My name is Francine, and I work as a clerical officer in a care home in the Highlands, Scotland. I recently completed the Introduction to British Sign Language (Healthcare) course, which I enjoyed. It made me want to learn more, so I am now starting to learn basic conversational BSL. I am looking forward to improving my skills and being able to communicate better with people who use sign language.

Hi, I've just started my BSL level one course online. I've started learning as I'm losing the hearing in one of my ears - and it's a great language to learn! Hopefully I'll meet some other learners and we can practice.

Hello everyone My name is Tara, I am a registered nurse I have recently started a BSL course and I am hoping to start my level one in a few months I am glad to have found this website and hope I can find it helpful on my BSL journey

My name is Pia, I am 36 from Scotland. I have been profoundly deaf in my left ear since birth and have partial (deteriorating slowly) hearing in my right ear. I was brought up in the hearing world and speak English as my primary language. I did some sign language lessons when i was in school so I'm not a total stranger to sign but i also haven't had any signing practice since then!

Hi, I'm mothcat. I've wanted to learn BSL for a long time, and have been considering it more seriously for the past year. I finally decided to do a course! When I worked in a coffeeshop, one customer came in who signed their order. I couldn't understand what they were saying vocally, and I knew no sign language, so they ended up having to write down their order. It felt really wrong and horrible at the time, and now I know that the word for it is audism. Since then, I've started a job where one of my coworkers is Deaf and lipreads, and while she doesn't strictly require BSL, it gave me the final push to learn it anyway. As a disabled person myself, I know how frustrating it is that abled people demand everyone to conform to their way of doing things, and as a society we should strive to embrace the diverse ways folk navigate this world. As a side note, I am autistic and have really been enjoying the structure of BSL as a language. Its structure and clarity are really accessible.

My name is Andrew and I am looking at learning BSL as a way to better myself and increase my understanding. Not finding it easy but I am finding it rewarding and I guess that is more important. Stay safe.

Hello everyone, I'd like to introduce myself, my name is Jacob. I've been profoundly deaf since birth, however NHS has failed me because they didn't find out I was deaf until I was 15 years of age! They did multiple hearing tests, however they were conducted in a headmasters office in primary school, and they just thought i was being ignorant or distracted by other things for example, children playing on the playground. So when I was 15 years old, my mum still thought they were something not quite right with me so this time, my hearing test was conducted in a soundproof room, with headphones and the button to press when I hear the beeps, when I started this test the lady that was in charge of the test kept saying you need to press the button when you hear a noise, and I wasn't pressing the button for a lot of the test, and when the test was over she then said she was in awe why nobody caught it when I was a toddler because I've gone through 15 years of my life not being able to hear, I've missed out on so many things, and development socially growing up. I wanted to do BSL because I still struggle to hear when I have my hearing aids in, especially in loud environments so I joined myself and my partner to do this course so I can communicate with my family and my partner better when I'm struggling to hear. I'm very excited to learn BSL and to use it in everyday life

Hi , Iv always wanted to learn bsl , would be ideal for my job

My name is Sarah, I have always wanted to learn BSL, since i first did fingerspelling at 2ndary school (a long time ago now!), two years ago we employed a Deaf team member, who has been teaching us signing, and we had a 6 week course, but i would love to learn to communicate better with my Deaf colleague, so i can support her