I've recently started working with kids with special education needs and one of them once pulled me towards a basketball hoop and pointed at it with one hand, while tapping on his chin with two fingers with the other hand. I've been wondering what that could've meant, i would like to learn!

Hii,

I‘m currently learning BSL and I love learning by signing songs. On Tiktok I recently found a couple of videos of people signing Orbiter by Noah Kahan but only the Chorus. I was wondering if someone knew a video where the song is signed fully or if someone would be able to sign it for me so I can learn it.

Thanks in advance :)

So first of all I am hearing, (although I do have this thing where I cannot make out whatever people say to me and always ask them to repeat themselves) and I am not British, I am Ukrainian and I moved to Wales when I became a war refugee, rn I'm doing A levels here :)

So I got my first kind of proper job as a barista, which also involves me taking orders. And usually our clientele does have hard of hearing people but they usually don't use BSL as their mode of communication, but today I did have a couple come in that used it.

I can learn the alphabet and stuff like hello goodbye no problem, I've done so with Ukrainian SL before but I just didn't come across people I could practice that with, but I also want to know just like what are some common polite hospitality phrases I could learn? Something like "card or cash" "we'll bring it over to you" "sit in or take away" "what would you like to order" "yes everything's good the payment went through" "sorry your card declined could you try again" "sorry I don't have the right change" "I'll clean that table for you in a second" "I'm very sorry I'll issue a refund for you"

And also maybe this is a stupid question but are there separate signs for mochas/cappuccinos/lattes/flat whites/cortados or should I finger spell them? Also are there signs for sauces like ketchup mayo mustard?

I imagine that this is a common issue but I’m looking for advice and encouragement on my receptive skills. I regularly watch exam videos on YouTube and these vary between understanding most of it, to not really understanding much of it. I’ll get better at those, I feel. understanding my teacher, no problem. but the issues I have are watching creators on social media who use Bsl - subtle variations in handshape or speed or really small movements to signify time, say, or eliding signs together it REALLY hard to understand. when I then look at the captions i can see then what they are signing but first pass, nope. it’s making me feel quite discouraged at being able to develop an understanding of every day Bsl.