Japanese Sign Language (JSL) 日本手話 指文字

[Kayogi]

日本語を勉強している大学生ですけど、日本語手話も学びたい！

オンラインで多いリソースがあるけど、ほとんどは日本語だけです­、そして私の日本語は流暢ではありません。

バイリンガルなJSLリソースを知っていますか？

[waffocopter]

Cool. I'm taking Japanese right now and just spontaneously decided to learn the alphabet a few hours ago. Though, from looking at other sites, I find eight painful/impossible for me.

[nemuineko85]

this is great. Can you show how to do glides and ten ten for sounds like ji and ze and such, if you know how? That's hard to find.

[KanjiKeith]

Watch my second JSL video, 日本手話 指文字 QUIZ 1, and you will find the answer to your request.

[nemuineko85]

@KanjiKeith Thanks! I knew a little about the glides; I'll study them more when I master the basics.

So "shi" becomes "ji" through gliding, and "fu" becomes "pu" by jumping. how do you get "bu"? is it by pulling back?

I may actually need to know this stuff for my job/ a project I'm working on. Thanks again!

[KanjiKeith]

"bu" is to "fu" as "ji" is to "shi"

ブ ← フ as ジ ← シ

All hard-sound changes are made by moving the sign to the right.

All soft-sound (pa, pi, pu, pe, po) are made by moving the sign up.

Pulling back makes the お into を and the others into small-sized characters, like small tsu and small ya.

[nemuineko85]

@KanjiKeith Thanks again. I figured that out right after I commented. >.>

How did you learn this? Do you have a deaf friend, or did you take a class?

Also I find it interesting that they resemble katakana, not hiragana. It makes sense now that I think about it, since katakana is more angular and easier to mimic, and since the function of katakana is closer to the function of fingerspelling than hiragana would be.

[KanjiKeith]

I live in Japan and took a beginner's JSL class last year.

Thank you for watching my JSL videos! I will try to make more.

[ciccarello]

its so cause hes nervous :(

[ASL8306]

Sweet! This is slow enough to actually follow along to, Thanks! ありがとう！