This app is the single best ASL app I’ve found. From the videos being easy to follow, the actual grammar lessons instead of just rattling off words, the options to slow down videos and split screen the camera so you can follow along. The dictionary option is great when you need to brush up on a few words or when you’re translating with someone real time and the vocab trainer is great for daily use to make sure you’re training in all the material. Not to mention that Mano is adorable and the reminders and feedback it gives you are actually encouraging instead of slightly menacing (looking at that creepy green owl we’ve all tried) premium is a thing to unlock all of the content but honestly I don’t even think about it just bc of how worth it it is. I never subscribe to app things but this such a great value that it’s really no question
If you were to make the premium more affordable or even have lessons unlock on a daily basis then you would have way more people use your app! The first lesson I took was very easy to digest and very well made so I know the rest would be great! But I didn’t even get to finish the first lesson because I had to pay up. $18??? Really???
Not everyone can afford a membership like that! By having it at such a steep price your excluding people who would genuinely want to learn. And by doing so destroying future opportunities and relationships community-wise. How are people supposed to come together when they don't have the resources to connect with one another?
I know most of asl can be learned for free online but to be able to have lessons put together in an easily understandable manner is so important to prevent the lost of understanding and interest.
I'm not saying make it completely free, I completely understand everything takes time and money, but to at least have it unlock a lesson a day would be amazing! And you could have the membership as an option for people who want to learn at their own pace!
If Duolingo can let you take 6 languages at a time for free with option of 6.99 a month for learning at one’s own pace, I think you can have a free lesson a day with a membership option of less than $18.
I still can't get over that, $18? That's an entire paycheck for some people.
Think about it and do better.
You can’t even complete the first lesson without paying the subscription. One of the main reasons I downloaded was because the ad said it was free.
On the ad: I was hesitant to download this app simply because in the ad the person who was signing and trying to get the other person to download the app was being super rude. She was talking down to the person who didn’t know sign saying “You won’t download this app” “Got any more excuses?” And etc. When she simply showed interest in learning sign. One of the main points the signing person made was that it was free so you can learn sign and not have money being an excuse as to why you don’t learn but it’s a monthly subscription (which I’ve read is $18 a month) before you even finish the first lesson.
This is ridiculous marketing and even more ridiculous pricing. If you wish to help deaf and hard of hearing people by teaching people sign claiming it’s free and being rude is NOT the way to do it.
If I'm going to pay that much money to learn sign language, I might as well just go to my local community college and take a class, this is absolutely ridiculous, it's great to be able to compensate people, but if you don't have money, and you need to learn sign language, you are absolutely screwed here. It should be set up like Duolingo, where you can choose to get more lessons quicker by doing premium, or you just use it daily to do one lesson a day, maybe have ads if that will help, but seriously? Forcing subscriptions? Really? Are you actually serious with that? 7 days is not enough to learn a whole other language for a free trial.
Forcing people to pay for something that they need but cannot afford, is not cool, useful, or necessary. There are clearly plenty of people who are able to pay, and do pay, so why not take their money, and use that to let the rest of us use the app too? It's like you don't even want people to learn sign language, unless they're loaded on cash of course. Greed will be the death of this world and you're proving my point. DO BETTER!!!!
Worth the price. My plug and reminder, you are paying for Deaf individuals work compensation which is a big deal. Second, I have been taking classes with people in my local ASL Deaf cohort and decided to try this out to support my receptive and maintenance skills. It teaches features of sign, fingerspelling and builds in a very visual way that Deaf people teach as well as uses ASL grammar which, as a hearing person has been the biggest learning curve since the structure is different and using this app helps to demonstrate that and break it down in an interactive way. This is learning a second language, it doesn’t follow English grammatical rules, so if you become frustrated, yes, you’re learning a different language not just a visual version of What you speak. Looking through the upcoming courses and the concepts that this app will teach me in the future, I am excited to use this app as a support as I continue to interact with my local community and develop my ability to effectively communicate with them. Additionally, the dictionary tool is absolutely amazing and I love looking up a word I haven’t gotten to that I don’t already know. Yes, over the year it may feel pricey to some, but remember, you are compensating paying real people and this will help you to engage with real people in the world. The perspective of that can shift that this really is pretty small relative to the impact you can have on others.
I like this app a ton, I’ve been learning ASL but have struggled to keep up with things the past few months and this app has helped. However, as someone who aready knew a bit of ASL, I wish this app had a placement test so that I didn’t spend weeks learning the basics and could skip ahead to what I don’t know. The price is also a bit steep when comparing this to free learning apps like Duolingo. I would be willing to pay as I understand this is a high quality learning modality for a unique language, but $5-$8 a month is more reasonable. Hopefully as time goes on the price goes down.
I downloaded this app to my tablet so that I could prop the screen up and see the signs and then use the mirror feature more easily. I was very disappointed to learn that it has the same view as on my phone. I had really hoped that I could take advantage of the larger screen to see things more clearly, and more comfortably use the app. How am I supposed to practice using my hands if I can’t prop my screen up easily? My neck gets tired looking down at it.
Other than the view limitation, however, I am loving the app! It works well for my learning style, and I am finding myself making progress quickly. I’m also remembering the signs much more easily than when I took in person classes. The repetition schedule is perfect for me!
This has been such an amazing experience using this app. I have always wanted to learn asl as I think it is fascinating! I work as a nurse and surprisingly come across a lot of patients who are deaf or hearing impaired. All of the teachers on the app are amazing, Liz is my favorite and you will see her the most! I am on module 6 of the app and had my first successful shift caring for a deaf patient! We didn’t need to write down anything or use word boards for identification, we were able to communicate just with asl and he was extremely impressed, and surprised I knew asl. Such a beautiful culture that I cannot wait to learn more of and hopefully be involved in more!!!! If you’re on the fence, JUST DOWNLOAD IT!!!!
I found this from a few advertisements and suddenly got the urge to start learning sign language for fun. I was I really interested while going through the first lessons, and then it showed that I had to pay to kept going.. well not exactly paying I don’t think, but I had to put card info. This app is for 9+, do you think all minors have that kind of money now? And speaking shouldn’t come at a cost at all. I’ve tried learning Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Tagalog. They all needed card info for me to keep learning. I’ve tried so many apps and nothing came fully free, I thought learning sign language would be different but it’s still just another language. I don’t get why we have to pay to learn these things. And people say it’s best to start learning at a young age. How can I learn if nothing will let me.
I have always wanted to learn to sign. But it wasn’t offered in my school system and with my budget now, finding an in person class to pay for isn’t an option. I stumbled across this in an add. And did the first chapter because that is what is offered for free. I learned the greetings quickly and immediately dove into the free trial of o continue because I was so excited to keep going. Everything is explained so thoroughly and even if I’m slow signing right now, it’s so exciting to be able to understand what someone is signing to me. And I think it will be more than worth the monthly price until I’ve completed all the units. And it comes with three dialects to learn, so I could become multi lingual in sign. This is a true dream come true, and I’m so thankful that I found this app.
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