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Originally Posted by xilman
I've often thought of learning ASL or BSL. The main disincentive is that I've no-one to speak it with.
Interestingly enough, ASL and BSL are apparently quite different languages. They differ much more from each other than do English and American.
Paul
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Yes, extremely different. ASL shares around 50-70% (depends on who you ask) of it's vocabulary with French Sign Language
BSL's fingerspelling is totally different, BSL uses two hands where ASL uses one hand
I would say that BSL and ASL differ more than English and German. Probably more along the lines of German and Italian.