fudgefactorfive
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http://www.signstation.org
This is the best one I've yet seen. It makes heavy use of video so you'd need broadband, and you also must install Shockwave 10 if you haven't already (a small download).
It covers Deaf Awareness issues, particularly in the workplace, as well as having actual BSL lessons. Vocab isn't gone into in great detail so I'd say that this might not be much use to a total beginner, but great for someone doing a course now or who learned sign vocab in the past and wants to refresh their skills. So this is not really a substitute for learning sign from deaf people - nothing is - but a really well-made supplement to it.
The best thing about it for me is that it covers grammar in a way that my CACDP courses really haven't. I understand why it's not taught more "formally" at FE colleges, ie. it's a "conversational" teaching style - many people starting BSL haven't been to school for a long time and may have never studied other languages or even English grammar - but if you like more structure, this stuff is great. I'm always being picked up on for talking in SSE and not BSL, but the CACDP courses don't really help you much with that.
This is the best one I've yet seen. It makes heavy use of video so you'd need broadband, and you also must install Shockwave 10 if you haven't already (a small download).
It covers Deaf Awareness issues, particularly in the workplace, as well as having actual BSL lessons. Vocab isn't gone into in great detail so I'd say that this might not be much use to a total beginner, but great for someone doing a course now or who learned sign vocab in the past and wants to refresh their skills. So this is not really a substitute for learning sign from deaf people - nothing is - but a really well-made supplement to it.
The best thing about it for me is that it covers grammar in a way that my CACDP courses really haven't. I understand why it's not taught more "formally" at FE colleges, ie. it's a "conversational" teaching style - many people starting BSL haven't been to school for a long time and may have never studied other languages or even English grammar - but if you like more structure, this stuff is great. I'm always being picked up on for talking in SSE and not BSL, but the CACDP courses don't really help you much with that.
