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  1. I have just restarted trying to learn a bit of BSL - it is almost 2 years since I started and then gave up! I am planning on completing the BSL online course this time and hope to find someone to practise signing with. I attend weekly lip reading classes
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  2. Hi I'm Shelley and I have decided to learn BSL because during my time as a teacher I supported a child who had hearing impaired parents to run a signing class. I realised the value and importance of this skill in being able to communicate and fully believed that it is something that should be taught to all children. Unfortunately I didn't continue and now that I do voluntary work in the community I want to be able to converse with everyone I meet.
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  3. Hello, my name is Jay I work for the Ambulance service. I am learning BSL to help me communicate with the deaf community who will hopefully never need my help, but if they do I am able to provide the best possible care. I am really enjoying the challenge and really appreciate and admire the language.
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  4. Hi! My name is Tam, I live near Leeds and I'm learning BSL because as a disabled person myself I want to be more inclusive to others and broaden my world view. I'm a sixth form student but by September I will be in university!
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  5. Hi everyone, I am a nursing student in the UK and have decided it would be a good idea to learn British Sign Language as part of my course. I am 23 and currently a first year student.
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  6. Hi there my name is Libby I’m 40 years old. I am delighted to be finally doing this course, I did look into it last year but due to personal circumstances I didn’t get signed up. I hope to go to learn all levels of BSL because it is an ambition of mine to work in deaf service or become a tutor or interpreter. Ideally I would have liked to join a course whereby there is a deaf tutor and although there is services near me they do not appear to be running classes at the moment due to covid. I’m really looking forward to learning this amazing language.
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  7. Hi, my name is Nicki. I have always wanted to learn sign language having been taught the alphabet when I was at primary school. I took a short course at uni. Now I have a member of my Reception class who is profoundly deaf and I am learning to support her. My class are loving learning alongside me, including this child and I have also set up a club for our older pupils.
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  8. I believe it's whichever you feel more comfortable with, rather than whichever you write with. I think part of my problems in the past have been that I change hands - I learned fingerspelling right-handed as a kid, but my BSL instructor was left-handed so I got myself in a muddle copying him (You'd think mirror image, right? No). I just used whichever hand felt correct at the time. I got my left hand smacked more times than I could count. I'm now trying hard to stick with left-handed. Right clearly didn't work for me. But now I'm having to undo three decades of right-handed fingerspelling. Since your post was four months ago I assume you figured it out for yourself, but I thought I'd reply in case anyone else was wondering.
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