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British Sign Language

British Sign Language (BSL) is thought to have around 150,000 deaf users in the UK, not including thousands of other users who are hearing relatives of the deaf, or who work with the British deaf community. Due to their different historical origins, only around 30% of signs in BSL are identical to American Sign Language (ASL). BSL is most closely linked to Australian and New Zealand sign languages, which evolved from an early form of BSL. It also has regional dialects across the UK. Continue reading →

British Sign Language

British Sign Language (BSL) is thought to have around 150,000 deaf users in the UK, not including thousands of other users who are hearing relatives of the deaf, or who work with the British deaf community. Due to their different historical origins, only around 30% of signs in BSL are identical to American Sign Language (ASL). BSL is most closely linked to Australian and New Zealand sign languages, which evolved from an early form of BSL. It also has regional dialects across the UK. Continue reading →

14 million language learners from 195 countries on Livemocha

Livemocha claims to be the world’s largest online language learning community. With Livemocha, you can meet native speakers of the language you want to learn, join a language course and have your language exercises reviewed by other community members or by one of the Livemocha ‘experts’. They offer courses in 38 languages at the moment. They also have a regular language learning blog and a Facebook page. Continue reading →