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Valerie Sutton Date: Sat Oct 6, 2001 7:46 pm Subject: Re: Learning SignWriting anyone help? | |
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SignWriting List October 6, 2001 Hello SW List members, and Trevor! I am glad to know that you received the materials, Trevor. Yes...learning to read and write any language takes years of work. Each country translates our Lessons in SignWriting Textbook from English-ASL to their spoken and signed languages. Translations have been done in Nicaragua, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Belgium (Flanders), Brazil, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Ireland....to name a few...there may be others...I know Japan is starting a translation now. I do not know of all projects using SignWriting any longer... In England, I do not know of such a project, but you might contact Bencie Woll to find out: Bencie Woll City University Northampton Square London, EC1V 0HB Bencie and her researchers used SignWriting years ago in Bristol to record international signing...and the SignWriter documents were typed by a Norwegian Deaf man, so it was not exactly a BSL project! I hope you find someone in England to help you. Or just learn BSL and write down individual signs as you learn them, and slowly add them into your dictionary file...in a couple of years, you might have a dictionary that will be useful to others... Best of luck with writing BSL signs...I hope you will share some of them with the SW List - Val ;-) --------------------------- Trevor wrote: >Yes after all this time as a member of the list I finally have the time to >learn SignWriting. :-O I have "Lessons in SignWriting" and SignWriter 4.4. >However, I'm find the heavy dependency upon ASL in the workbook a >hinderance to learning SignWriting for British Sign Language, which is my >only signed language. Things like Spanish-R and Portugese-R have me >confused. As do some of the axial/curved/rotational movement symbols. >Maybe I'm just expecting a shallower learning curve. > >I'm wondering whether there's someone in England --- especially near >London --- who'd be prepared to give me a few hours face-to-face coaching? >For didactic reasons I need this before early AM Monday 22nd Oct. Perhaps >an of-list contact so we can negoiate a fair rate for your time and agree >a date to meet. > >Regards, Trevor > >British Sign Language is not inarticulate handwaving; it's a living language. >Support the campaign for formal recognition by the British government now! >Details at https://www.fdp.org.uk/ > >-- > ><>< Re: deemed! |
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