Wow .. good job, jclarke. It sure shown big different between ASL and Auslan. Thank you for sharing!
I apolgize for the delay as I have been busy from the last few days, here is my first VLOG as an introduction of myself in two languages. Please post what you think? I, also, would like to hear some ideas/suggestions for the next VLOG on Australian Sign Language - like any signs you want to see.
VLOG
Enjoy!
Thanks, jclarke! That was awesome. I'm glad you did ASL first so I could compare, because some of the signs in AUSLAN, I would have read differently based on ASL. Would you mind if I shared this with our Deaf ASL instructor at my college? I think she would be very interested inthe differences.
Great! I will show it to her tomorrow, and let you know what she thought.
I just finished showing your blogs to our Deaf ASL instructor. She loved them! She thinks it is such a great idea that you have to open up the world of communication across continents like that, and said she truly admires what you are doing. She looks forward to more demonstrations, and said to thank you for being such a wonderful ambassador for the deaf communities.
These are great! Wonderful to see the comparison between ASL and AUSLAN. I love the sign for BORN with the "head" pushing through; it's so graphic compared to ASL.
Do you know whether the British Sign Language (BSL) and AUSLAN alphabet are the same? The few letters I know looked the same but I don't remember the BSL alphabet well enough to know the rest. I assume BSL had some influence on AUSLAN.
I would really love to learn a foreign sign language at some point.
AUSLAN signs looked somewhat simliar to BSL signs.
jclarke, just wondering here. Did you and your parents visit DeafChat.com in the late 1990s and early 2000s? I have read your previous entries here, one was where you talked about going to Washington, DC when you were very young. The lady was telling some people in DeafChat that she was taking her son, about 12 at the time to visit Gallaudet in the early 2000s.
Why don't you tell us about your holiday?
What a good idea.. I should do the VLOG outside in a warm weather, as it is nearly spring here! Gotta love it