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English translation: FSL French sign language

11:02 Feb 16, 2010
French to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Linguistics / description of museum exhibition
French term or phrase: LSF
(I don't think this means 'Loi sur la securite financiere')
This is about visits by disabled people:
'accessible aux personnes a mobilite reduite, visite en LSF sur demande'
mportal
Local time: 05:11
English translation:FSL French sign language
Explanation:
langue des signes française

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Note added at 3 mins (2010-02-16 11:06:19 GMT)
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For people who are deaf
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Solen Fillatre
France
Local time: 06:11
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Summary of answers provided
5 +9FSL French sign language
Solen Fillatre
Summary of reference entries provided
Just Google LSF and set 'advanced search' to French
writeaway

  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +9
FSL French sign language


Explanation:
langue des signes française

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Note added at 3 mins (2010-02-16 11:06:19 GMT)
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For people who are deaf

Solen Fillatre
France
Local time: 06:11
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jean-Louis S.
2 mins
  -> thanks
agree  philgoddard
14 mins
  -> thanks
agree  Evans (X)
40 mins
  -> thanks
agree  writeaway: easily and instantly findable on Google too. /@mimi-why wouldn't there be a guided tour given in sign language? nothing unusual about that.
1 hr
neutral  mimi 254: visite en langues des signes françaises sur demande me semble un peu bizarre
1 hr
agree  Jocelyne S
1 hr
agree  Chris Hall
2 hrs
agree  EmmaMorton: maybe hearing impaired people can request the presence of an LSF interpreter, that's what they mean by 'visites en LSF'?
2 hrs
agree  Travelin Ann: about 45K ghits for guided tours sign language
2 hrs
agree  Stephanie Ezrol
3 hrs
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Reference comments


1 hr
Reference: Just Google LSF and set 'advanced search' to French

Reference information:
Lots of clear results, the first of which are:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langue_des_signes_française
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Sign_Language

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Note added at 1 hr (2010-02-16 12:24:01 GMT)
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@ mportal the advance search feature can be very useful and can save a lot of time. Avoids trying to sift through useless answers in the wrong languages.

writeaway
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Note to reference poster
Asker: Thanks, writeaway, (I should probably know that, but I didn't).

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