Oh yeah if you find charts for the alphabet between ASL and BSL, ASL uses one hand, majority of BSL uses both. And that's just the alphabet

Sign Language is slightly difficult to learn. I had the alphabet down, but I spent some time a couple years ago in a woman's homeless/abuse shelter and one of the women there was deaf. Everyone seemed to shun her mostly, because they had trouble communicating with her. I started talking to her and she learned slowly to read my lips and also she taught me some words, not just the alphabet.

Back in second grade I learned how to spell-sing we wish you a merry christmas, cuz my class was gonna go to the nursing home and sing and stuff for them
I don't remember how they acted to a kid signing a song, all i really remember is that we decided that instead of singing happy new year, just happy year so the signs weren't a blob of rush
Memories are weird

Mom teaches ASL, so if I really wanted to I could go to her classes and pick it back up
Mom and I are both left-handed, which makes signing a bit different, which has caused some trouble in the past, but mom has ways to help people get past that

If you know them left handed, switching might become awkward

@mem: I'm not sure which two, but I know one is the one that majority of the country speaks. Is that one Hindi? And the other is from the region her parents are from, but I can't remember if it's from the north or south because I can remember her talking about both regions but I can't remember what about. lol

They're as different as US English and British English
Different sources for different words and all that
Like a lot of ASL signs come from Martha's Vineyard, where a unique gene had a whole quarter of the island deaf, and so everyone knew sign language
If you took a Martha's Vineyard deaf person and they had a kid with a deaf person not from the island, the kid would be hearing. Every time

Rubie wrote:@mem: I'm not sure which two, but I know one is the one that majority of the country speaks. Is that one Hindi? And the other is from the region her parents are from, but I can't remember if it's from the north or south because I can remember her talking about both regions but I can't remember what about. lol

Yeah, that'd probably be Hindi. But the first thing that comes to mind when you mentioned South is Tamil There's over 20 languages in use there so I don't blame you for not remembering xD