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  1. Well, first of all, if it's only been a week for you, then it's only been a week. Language takes time to learn, and it's much easier to pick up as a young child than it is later on in life, however old you are, and whatever learning difficulties you may or may not have. The first thing you should probably do is forget the length of time it takes you to learn, remove that from the equation. Don't pressure yourself based on time. Take as much time as you need, even if it's weeks or months, no one's going to instantly have it down. It takes years to fully learn a language, and someone who has learning difficulties should never compare the rate they learn to the expected rate of people without, because all it does is stigmatise you. I have a sight impairment, so if someone's signing too fast, I miss things, so that's a setback for me. I also have dyslexia and dyscalculia, and I have a sensory processing disorder (due to the sight impairment, no doubt, plus other health conditions) that makes me slightly delayed in processing what I'm seeing. However, I've been sticking with it, and bit by bit I'm picking it up. It gets easier the longer you do it, and as long as you don't pressure yourself by other people's learning standards, then there's no pressure. Remind yourself why it is you wanted to learn BSL in the first place, and if all the struggles you're having with it are going to be worth it in the long-run before giving it up as a bad job. If you don't practice, then you'll never learn. Like with any learning difficulty, there are always work-arounds - you probably use many of them yourself without even realising it. One thing you can do is write the vowels on your fingers (a, e, i, o, u) and practice those to begin with. Once you've got into the habit of touching the right finger for the right vowel, then focus on trying to read them, so either do it in a mirror or have someone else do them so you can practice. Then slowly add in the rest. Maybe do A-E to begin with, and once you start to get it, add another five letters of the alphabet. Also, if you write the alphabet down in clear writing so you can remember the order as you go, it'll help, until you won't need it anymore - it'll help you with letters in general, as well as learning BSL, and hopefully having a positive impact on you with reading/writing the longer you stick to it and the more you practice. I as good as taught myself to read and writer because no one else had the patience to, I even had a teacher in primary school that used to hit me around the head when I got it wrong, which was all the time, so I gave up doing it their way and learnt my own. If I can do it, and I'm not the brightest, then anyone can, you just have to want it enough to keep motivated. Others might have ways of learning letters and signs that could help, too, but the best way of learning anything is to figure out what works for you and what doesn't, and go from there, use whatever it takes to help you get going. It's not cheating. You can't cheat at learning something, you either learn or you don't, and using things like written alphabet or being decent at lip-reading to help isn't cheating.
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