This free online sign language course teaches you how to use British Sign Language to communicate with deaf people. British Sign Language (BSL) is a part of the culture and daily life experience of approximately 90 000 deaf people in the UK. This step-by-step course explains how to conduct basic conversations with other BSL users. We show you how to fingerspell the alphabet and various names. We also go over useful sign words and phrases for meetings, greetings, describing people and animals, weather, travel, directions, colours, sizes and numbers.
| Course Category | Sign Language, Languages |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Define ‘British Sign Language’ (BSL) • Explain how to fingerspell the alphabet from A to Z • Describe the signs used for different names and words used daily • Indicate how to sign greetings, inquiries and comments • Describe different persons, relatives and animals using BSL • Discuss the signs and gestures used to discuss yourself, your family and your pets • List the various types of animals by moving your hands • Compare BSL’s and English’s rules of grammar |
| Course Code | 1160 |
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