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Free Valentines Day eCard – Love Sign in digital format. Send this paperless ecard to the one you love and add your personalised message inside the card. This Valentines Day eCard – Love Sign appears from an animated envelope and opens up with your message. This eCard has a sign language symbol with a hand showing the sign on a red heart background. See how it works.

 

Signing is a great way to interact with others.  The British Sign Language website says this:

  • SIGN LANGUAGE  Sign Language is a visual means of communicating using gestures, facial expression, and body language. Signing  is used mainly by people who are Deaf or have hearing impairments.
  • BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE (BSL)  BSL has it’s own grammatical structure and syntax, as a language it is not dependant nor is it strongly related to spoken English. BSL is the preferred language of around 145,000 people within the UK (2011).
  • A RECOGNISED LANGUAGE  After a big campaign BSL was finally recognised by the UK government as an official minority language in 2003. This has led to increased funding for the needs of the coummunication of people who are Deaf, and an increased awareness of the language which now has a similar status to that of other minority national languages such as Gaelic and Welsh.
  • SIGN SUPPORTED ENGLISH (SSE)  Another form of signing used in Britain is known as Sign Supported English (SSE). SSE is not it’s own language. It uses the same signs as BSL but they are used in the same order as spoken English. SSE is used to support spoken English, especially within schools where children with hearing impairments are learning English grammar along side their signing, or by people who mix mainly with hearing people.
  • A WORLDWIDE LANGUAGE?  Many hearing people have the false impression that Sign Language is a worldwide universal language, but this however is far from the truth. Because of the isolated nature of Sign Language there is even significant variation from city to city within Britain, this is known as regional variation and can be thought of as being similar to regional accents and colloquialisms found in spoken languages. Other countries have their own sign language.

View some favourite greeting signs here.

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