Reference Works on Sign Language

The Standard Dictionary of British Sign Language ! - An Essential BSL Reference.

AN ESSENTIAL MULTIMEDIA RESOURCE FOR STUDENTS OF BSL AND THEIR TUTORS OVER 3,700 STANDARDISED & REGIONAL SIGNS - SELECT A CATEGORY OR A HANDSHAPE TO SELECT A WORD TO INSTANTLY ACCESS A SIGN.

The Advanced BSL Reference Dictionary - The Ideal Tool for Learning and Communicating in British Sign Language. The Microbooks BSL DVD creates a common ground for communicating in British Sign Language (BSL) and English. Using DVD technology, Microbooks brings to you a product that is flexible enough to be used with your DVD player on your television, PC, and Apple Mac.

With more than 3700 high definition motion video signs and 5000 English words (plus variations on these words) the The Standard BSL Dictionary DVD is the ultimate and definitive reference product that is a useful tool in communication, education, and other environments. A bilingual tool: English to BSL & BSL to English.

Instant access to any sign. Due to the visual nature of Sign Language, Multimedia is a perfectly natural way to learn BSL.With award-winning content and exciting learning activities, The British Sign Language Dictionary combines text, video, interactivity, fingerspelling and categories to create a super reference tool that makes learning BSL in your own time easy, intuitive, and fun. To look up a sign, you can (depending on the environment you use the DVD in):

Type a word
Click on a word
Click on a handshape
Click on a category and then click on a word

In addition, to ensure accuracy, cultural integrity and usability the DVD features

Standardised & regional signs
Deaf signers only
The controls of all DVD players
Test yourself quiz
Meanings of words
Fingerspelling
Freeze frame

At last! A visual and interactive tool to learn and practice the signs of the British Sign Language, with the clarity of pictures on a DVD.