ASL vs BSL | Side by Side Comparison | American Sign Language and British Sign Language
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- We partnered up with Sign Say in the UK to show you a side by side comparison of ASL and BSL. Although there are many similarities in the different sign languages there are also many differences. See if you can spot the similarities and differences between the different signs.
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0:00 - Intro
0:30 - TEACHING: Parameters of Sign
COMMON SIGNS
1:01 - I or Me
1:16 - You
1:25 - Meet
1:35 - Time
1:44 - Name
1:54 - Hello
2:02 - How are you?
2:13 - Please and Thank you
2:38 - Help
2:48 - Sorry
3:00 - Understand and Don't Understand
3:24 - Repeat or Again
3:39 - Excuse Me
3:59 - Good Morning
4:13 - Good Afternoon
4:26 - Good Night
4:39 - Live
4:50 - Learn or Learning
5:08 - US ENGLISH WORDS vs UK ENGLISH WORDS
5:38 - Soccer/Football
5:52 - Chips/Crisps
6:00 - French Fries/Chips
6:09 - Sneakers/Trainers
6:22 - Sweater/Jumper
6:33 - Subway/Underground
6:43 - Mail/Post
6:51 - Truck/Lorry
7:02 - Apartment/Flat
7:10 - Elevator/Lift
7:19 - Diaper/Nappy
7:29 - Candy/Sweets
7:37 - Cell Phone/Mobile Phone
7:46 - Pants/Trousers
8:00 - Closet/Wardrobe
8:10 - Crib/Cot
Thanks for watching!
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I live in the US, so from a practical standpoint it makes more sense for me to learn ASL, but I'm not gonna lie. Those BSL signs looked so much easier to do. Not only were they more intuitive to me as a non-signer, but they didn't look like they would aggravate my tendonitis as much.
as someone who isnt deaf and knows no sign languages, i agree 100%, the british ones look much more intuitive, luckily im british lol
This comment is interesting to me! I live in the UK and so would have no reason to continue learning ASL (I did learn it for a year when I was a kid and lived elsewhere). However, I find ASL more intuitive to me and would love to go back to it someday!
here's a question i've had for MANY years / decades... Why isn't / wasn't sign language worked out to be universal, where anyone from anywhere would be able to speak together? Thanks for the videos! enjoyed many of them!
Sign language is just like each countries language. It was developed within that country. There are some crossovers between sign language just like some countries languages.
@@LearnHowtoSign that was assumed, as it was created before the internet. i guess ... my question is why has it remained as such? hope this does not offend anyone, as it is not meant to do so, but i look at the deaf community as its own "Race" as they have their own language, and what could be considered a better way to initiate a 'world peace' if everyone understood each other with a universal (sign) language. is this something that has been discussed by chance? Any case, I appreciate your response. look forward to seeing more videos.
@@careygonzalez2829 There technically is a system (not an actual language) called Gestuno for the purpose of when those who are deaf from different countries get together for various events. But my guess as to why it hasn’t changed as a full international language is because of the varying backgrounds to create it.
@@careygonzalez2829 It’s a great question, and I think part of the reason is that a language is, in part, a product of the culture it comes from, and there are some ideas that are expressed within some cultures, but not within others. For example, in Japanese sign language (nihonshuwa) the signs for ‘sorry’, ‘please’, ‘thank you’ and the phrase ‘onegaishimasu’ (which is kind of like ‘thanks in advance’ but not quite) all use a similar component, because in Japanese culture being apologetic and the idea of requesting something are inextricably linked due to the common sense of etiquette that Japanese people, deaf or hearing, share. It would make sense to use the same signs in a country where those concepts weren’t linked in a similar way.
(P.s I’m not an expert in Japanese sign language so apologies if I got anything wrong. I work in Japan and work in a deaf school once every two weeks so picked up a basic amount to impress the kids haha)
why isnt spoken language worked out to be universal?
Love it . After learning ASL , i gonna try to learn BSL.
Awesome!!!
I am learning ASL but watching this it sometimes seems like BSL has "easier" signs , as in it seemed to me that more words were signed with one hand instead of two. Very interesting!
Thank you! How fun! This is great 👍 It was great to see the similarities and differences between ASL & BSL
Korie!!!!!!! Thank you for checking out our channel!
You should address the fact that just like there are different accents/dialects in spoken language, sign language also has regional differences. I have never seen your sign for "truck". Everyone I've signed with uses the British one, as it's descriptive of driving a truck.
Thank you Meredith. Well worth the wait! Two for one special!!!
Yes, its been a little bit of break. Life has been hectic on our end but now we are back in the groove.
Could you possibly do a video on basic signs for young kids such as like 'bedtime' or 'time to go to bed' etc?
Love this idea. I'll add it to the list.
Thank you so much for your videos! Your content is amazing!!
Glad you like them!
this is awesome. i’m currently learning ASL, although I live in the UK i’m looking to move to the states in the future. however I still want to learn BSL
U r teaching is so good .It's so fun to learn ASL
Thank you!
Wow, thank you so much Meridith
You are so welcome!
Good to see that help is the same sign in both the US and the UK! 😅
Deaf person here! I grew up in the US so started learning ASL first, and now live in the UK and am learning BSL. They both have aspects I prefer - fingerspelling is so much faster/nicer in ASL, but I find BSL to be more intuitive. But that's just been my own experience!
this is so interesting!
Right!!!!!!!
Thank You!
Hi there I work in retail and interact with many deaf people, I was wondering if there's a video out there with the kinda questions I need to help them . Usually it's like what are you looking for? What size? What color? By when do you need it?
Great suggestion. We will add it to the list.
Which language?
Very interesting video!!!✨✨✨
Its so fascinating right?
@@LearnHowtoSign yes it is
I'm talking an ASL course and the way I was taught elevator was to hold the non-dominate hand palm up and the dominant hand with two fingers on it the non-dom hand and move it up
There are probably regional differences just like BSL has regional differences, with some signs
Some of the BSL words look more intuitive for hearing people, like you're literally miming the meaning while the ASL word is more abstract
This is great! I am Learning bsl because I want to be able to talk to my friend she suffered through some head injury and is loosing her Hearing.
Coming from the perspective of someone who studied a little bit of LIS (Italian sign language), I also saw some similarities and differences. Interesting!
I should really try ASL because I think since I'm very visual and spatial I would take to it much easier than another spoken / written language. Thank you for this video
I’d love to know what are the various advantages and disadvantages of ASL vs BSL. For example, does one require better dexterity etc.
I don't know if being an ASL speaker makes me biased, but... I would say ASL is well known for its speed while BSL is more of slow but accurate.
I mean they are individual languages, so it all depends on which you were raised on. Personally i find bsl easier, aside from fingerspelling in which asl is much more fun
From someone who knows next to nothing about the subject, BSL looks less complex from the examples here.
Awesome
I know you most likely get requests a lot but, I am a paramedic and my wife is a nurse. Are you looking into making a video with basic medical questions I know many people will greatly appreciate it.
We have it on the list.
Hey, I'm from India. I completed my course in Indian sign language, but I want to learn ASL, would you please suggest some college and courses for an international student and what the job scopes in America etc for sign language interpreters??
Why are there no subtitles on this video outside the closed captions which have a slight delay and words that are wrong (eat instead of meet)?
I was taught BSL back in the early 80s when I got married to my first wife, and her family was all deaf, Mother, Brother, Father, and Sister, but now I'm living in the US, I went to a McD a few months ago, and met this deaf guy and it was like a native German trying to talk to a native Chinaman, luckily his name was the same in ASL as it is in BSL 'Wolf', but other than that, because we couldn't communicate, that was it, so when I saw a video on learning ASL, I thought "yeah right", BSL is far more easier to learn and use than ASL, having to spell with one hand, what if one has arthritis, as I do, luckily, BSL is easy on my arthritis.
Terry please, no one says 'chinaman' just say a chinese person that's like saying germanyman and frankly it's kinda rude
"Chinaman", wowsers, haven't heard anyone say that shit in a while lol.
Just to help out a bit, it's hard to go wrong if you add the word "person". So instead of saying "a white", you would say, "a white person". Avoids looking like you're reducing a person to that one element. Less dehumanising.
@@Siberius- Calm your tits, both of you. Terry was clearly not being intentionally insulting but using a word he grew up with. Personally I don't see how it's really offensive - seems no different than saying Englishman
@@martielupin1981 Frenchman, Englishman, Irishman. Those are all standard.
@dpayO2 Not equivalents. China is the country Chinese are the people. France is the county French are the people. You Frenchmen nobody says Francemen. If he said Chinese man nobody would be correcting him. Plus Chinaman is considered a slur in places.
I think some of the signs shown here make more visual sense in ASL than BSL like times of day in ASL indicate the sun rising, ASL's "mail" shows licking a stamp. But its interesting how many are the same.
Wow I just realised if you learn sign language its literally like learning to read and write.
When you are doing the signing you are seeing it from your perspective but then you have to mirror it when you translate it from another peraon.
So basically when I am learning a word I would have to stand in front of a mirror to see how it looks in order to be able to read it?
So each word has 2 different perspectives. When I deliver it, and how it looks front on 👀👀
I cant even follow dance routines or a gym teacher if they arent facing the same way as me!
Id like to think that maybe people dont understand that theres a difference right here in the us based on region, also. In WI, we were taught truck as the uk version, same with bus and tractor, one just a little more wide and one more bumpy.
Is there a difference in either SL for “live” as in “live and breathe” versus “live” as in “dwell or reside”? And if so what is it?
Live/dwell/reside would be the same sign but breathe is a different sign.
Please make a video of isl Vs Asl...☺️..
Interesting. We have French fries in ðe UK as well. Ðey’re like chips but þinner. We tend to get French fries in fast food places but it’s signed differently. “French” depicting a French moustache and ðen fries which is like “chips”.
Where I can get the content of Meredith
Do Canadians use ASL or BSL?
North American English is pretty much shared between Canada and the USA; but USA elevators are Canadian lifts.
So what about sign language?
Sign Language in Canada is ASL. I never knew elevators were called lifts in Canada.
I also thought that when you say I love you. The I is with the pinky up and drawn to the chest
Are you saying for any "I" word? That is signed exact english. A lot of EE is initialized by the first letter of the word. like the sign for red in ASl is one finger down from the lip and in EE it is the letter 'r' down from the lip.
Is it possible to sign to each other in just one language? Like, supposing I sign only in BSL may I sign normally with an American? Besides the little differences of?
not at all, if i signed BSL to someone who used ASL there would be a big communication barrier, since they are seperate languages 😊
I’m British and understand a lot of Indian sign language but ASL is too different to really understand like that. American signers understand French Sign Language better. The language family doesn’t follow the spoken languages.
I notice how on some of them, the BSL guy does the word in two different ways. Is this for contextual reasons?
Sometimes there are 2 signs for one word, they can be chosen due to context like you said
For a "learn how to sign" channel - y'all are slacking not having captions available tbh.
I feel like american sign language is bouncy and has more movement with the signs. I also think British sign language doesn't use as much facial expression
No captions?
Do you miror or not or does it not matter?
More than sign language, i just amazed that we use British English in our country still them American country.
Like chips , flat, football etc
I'm trying to learn sign language and there's a British sign language is there a black sign language is it basl sign language can you tell me Sorry if it's long and if it's rude
It seem I was taught a combination
Why o why do do you have muzak. For some hearing people it's like 2 inputs hapening at once. Sign and voice is ample.
Can American deaf people understand BSL like of it was a different accent or they don't understand it?
They are completely different languages so no. But there are a few similarities here and there
asl , bsl , starcraf? :V
asl seems easier cause you can correlate with the notion of the word
bien
5:20 but fish and chips taste good ngl
You tap 2x for NAME in ASL, not 3x or 4x as shown in the video.
Probably would have been better if they used Deaf ppl for the video
Meet was spelt Meat, I got confused,😁😁
I love people are saying BSL seems easier but their alphabet looks harder. Tho im sure both have difficulty and easy signs
I thought they were way more different
I m deaf .i m from india .help teach u instersting.please love usa
Welcome all the way from America!
@@LearnHowtoSign oky sir teacher .its like american a follow.video chat
Why aren’t you signing?
Communication.
As a person who is not 🧏♀️ DEAF I’ve always wanted to learn sign language in so many different spoken languages in the world I understand everyone doesn’t speak the same language as me…. But tell me why I thought people who were Deaf spoke one language🤷🏽♀️…. Why do they have to complicate sign language with having ALS and having BLS🤷🏽♀️ I want to be anywhere in the world and be able to communicate with someone who cannot hear why do they have to complicate side language with the human language? Why couldn’t this be all on one accord when it came to signing?
It's because sign languages are natural langauges, just like spoken languages! Essentially that means no-one sat down and 'designed' them, they just developed naturally over time. It would have been difficult for the whole world to co-ordinate that lol
Because all Deaf ppl in the world didnt suddenly decide to invent sign. It deveĺped over time like spoken languages, think about all the culture engrained into spoken languages, sign languages are the same
You mean ASL and BSL
Ok so i want to start learning sign language but I don't know which one ASL or BSL bc I already know polish sign language (I'm from poland) but I want to learn ASL or BSL to communicate with people from other countries
I would try learning ASL since it seems to be a sign language that is learned in addition to other sign languages.
Depends where you want to go 😂
It seems that ASL is more easily understood.
I'm HoH and use ASL. Love the male signer. Didn't like the woman representing ASL
Should have gotten a Deaf signer tbg
Most are the same
I’m Deaf and she made many incorrect signs for ASL. Please use an actual Deaf person to sign and teach ASL. Thank you.
Which ones did she do wrong
I only know ONE INTERNATIONAL sign language. It’s the middle finger.
👏👏👏 so creative, mocking Deaf culture and sign, youre so funny
As an ASL speaker, now I can make a fun of BSL speaker like these America people did to Britian people.
Oh dear! That BSL sign for Subway (underground)... YIIKES!
Time definitely won't make sense in another hundred years considering how watches are already considered outdated and only used by those who own fancy 1000$+ watches
ma’am he’s indian not british
Why are you teaching ASL? you're hearing.. you're not supposed to be teaching ASL when it is not your language.
She is trying to teach us something as a good deed and also idk about you but I very much enjoy learning ASL it’s not like u should only have non hearing or hard hearing ppl teach asl. Without Meredith wouldn’t have gone this far in my sign journey!
I will let u have your own opinion but plz don’t make her feel bad about what she’s doing cuz it’s really helping other ppl. Have a GOOD DAY. ✌🏼
What? So my English teacher is not allowed to teach English just because it's not her language? Why can't she?
this is such a weird comment lol
Not all deaf people are fully deaf. deafness is a scale that ranges profound hearing loss all the way to mild. You don't know how well her hearing is, and unlike what the other comment said, I think you have an ignorant and uneducated opinion, that should should examine.
She's teaching ASL so other people, hearing or part of the deaf community, can work together to make communication for the deaf community and non-verbal people a more comfortable experience.
I prefer ASL, nicer looking, and its alphabet is better than BSL I think (one hand vs two!)