Lucy Buxton teaches Media Isle of Man reporter Sadie the alphabet in Sign Language
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00:00Right, so here I am from Media Island Manseedi Journalist with the lovely Lucy who is going to teach me
00:08The sign language alphabet. Yes. Okay. This will be the British sign language fingerspelling alphabet, which is two-handed
00:15Okay. Now we're going to talk about your paper hand and
00:20Your pen hand and a lot of the time your paper hand is either gonna be up straight like that or it's gonna be flat
00:26Okay, we'll do other things as well, but that's either
00:30Flat and your pen hand often time you're going to be using your index finger
00:34Okay, so a you put up your paper hand bend your thumb slightly in
00:39index to thumb a a
00:42B fingers together
00:45It is like a love heart or pair of binoculars. If you want to be a child, okay back to being professional C
00:53D
00:55E is
00:57Bending the index finger. That's it tip of their E F is pen to on top of paper to
01:05G is pen fist on top of paper fist. If you imagine that's what a squiggly G looks like
01:10Yeah, it is H brush from the heel of that paper hands to the fingertips. I
01:16Back up again index finger and bend in the middle finger this time
01:22There this yeah, that's it today
01:25Back to upright and J. You're gonna swoop down that in middle finger and up the thumb. Oh
01:33Okay, okay. Just have the index finger up and your index finger of your pen hands
01:38You're gonna bend and you're gonna turn it over so that the knuckle is there
01:43Try not to know K. No, okay
01:46Okay, okay got it L put that paper hand flat one finger for L
01:53three fingers for M
01:55two fingers for N
01:58Because if you think about how it's written L is written with one line
02:01Yeah, and M has got three lines and then M has got two. So that's where it's one three two
02:07It's like a sequence. Isn't it the way you go through it and it's also visual. So it's like how it would be written
02:12So that's one three two, so back up to
02:17Vertical bend in your ring finger a bit index to ring finger. Oh
02:23Now we're on a
02:25P just that index finger of your paper hand pinch together the thumb and first finger and place them at the top. Oh
02:32I'm enjoying this good Q
02:35That hooked index finger just hooks in there and it will look like a Q to you
02:40Yeah, I'll put the hand flat have the index finger on there. That's the letter R. Cool
02:47S is little finger hanging from little finger. Oh
02:52I like that one that one slightly around that way. There you go. So I enjoy that one. Yeah, that is more
02:57That doesn't feel comfortable, but that man says s that's my favorite one. So far. Well the start of your name
03:03Yeah, that's s T. You're gonna take your index finger and point to the blade of your hand just below
03:09Yeah, that's it. Just there T
03:12You bend in the little finger. It's I'm struggling to keep you know, like all my fingers straight when I'm doing you mean you can't do
03:19that
03:22So you index to little finger index to the index index to the finger, yeah V two fingers apart
03:31W like a wigwam. Ah
03:34X like x-men
03:37Y
03:40And said what said so like this
03:46You've got a B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P
03:54Q R S T U V W X Y and Z
03:58Wow, that's really if you're left-handed, it will be the opposite way. Okay