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About Fingerspelling
Learn more about fingerspelling in BSL
Fingerspelling has been around a long time - one early reference to a fingerspelt British alphabet is as early as 1698.
But it's only a very small part of British Sign Language - essentially a means of representing written English with the hands.
SignPost's FingerSpeller™ only shows signs for individual letters of the alphabet. They are done slowly to help you learn. They're not linked together.
But fluent fingerspelling is very quick. Individual letters form a continuous stream, so the fingerspelling can look different until you're used to it.
Think of the difference between English written in block capitals or in joined-up handwriting.
