The lessons themselves are great, but the fact that you have to pay to learn how to communicate with people who have a disability is kind of stupid in my opinion. While the app teaches basic signing and a good way to say hi or ask if someone is deaf, it doesn’t provide more than that. Even if the fact you had to pay was dumb, the price that the app makes you pay is completely unreasonable. It makes you pay more than most people make after working for hours. I find that insane. I will say though that the idea is great, but the prices and the fact you have to pay is pretty insane.
This app is good, but the curriculum moves too fast with not enough review. They start you off very easy and then jog through to really complicated and long dialogs where its so hard to follow. And a lot of the words aren’t revisited in a way that helps build memory, I’ll learn a word once and then not see it again until it’s in the middle of a huge dialog 6 lessons later and I’m expected to be able to figure it out? I’m currently a frustrated customer. For as expensive as this app is, I wish it was better designed for learning constructively. This is making me think they didn’t test it with actual users
I realize the time and effort it takes to make an app like this, but $18 a month is way too steep. That’s the price of Netflix and Disney+ combined—almost an entire hour of work at my job. Inflation isn’t really a reason, and you’ve got a simple word like “Good” locked behind a paywall. I already know a lot of ASL, however, I wanted to learn new vocabulary related to the food we serve where I work. I know most words like bacon, toast, coffee, milk, etc, but I’d forgotten simple things along those lines like sugar, ice, and juice. I used the dictionary after it interrupted my first lesson to try and force the trial down my throat, but I was only able to look up a couple words before it again tried to force the free trial on me. You don’t get to finish lesson one, and you don’t get the dictionary at all, unless you’re paying $18 a month.
Here’s what you get to learn for free: Hello, Bye, How, Me, You, Deaf, Hearing, Thank you. After that, it was guessing on signs like: Book, Swimming, Baby.
So if I ever have a question about a word after learning ASL from your app, you expect me to continue to pay $18 a month for that dictionary? Absurd, and doesn’t help the deaf community if it’s all behind a paywall.
The small lessons that are available for free seem to be great to help people unfamiliar with sign language learn and understand the structure and inner working of the language. There are tidbits and need-to-knows sprinkled into the lessons. However there is not enough available for free.
Perhaps I’m too hard to please, but I do believe that the majority of it should be available for free. A learning tool that isn’t out for your hard earned money would be nice, and this app in particular seemed to be off to a good start until I noticed that anything past the 1st module is locked behind a paywall. So now I know how to say Hello and such, but I can’t get any further than a greeting without spending money. I think that learning should be above payment and it’s so sad to see what could have been an amazing resource fell into a capitalist trap.
I suffered a massive injury and hit my head on my car while then striking it on black ice that I feel on. I was giving a hearing aid for my right ear, and I still have sound in the left ear. Last evening I spent two hours in the emergency room while they try to pull out the dome of my hearing aid that was lodged deep inside the canal, almost 2 inches. The pain was beyond excruciating as they pulled it out, and I am petrified to wear my hearing aid. Therefore, I would like to learn ASL to help me function. This site is extremely easy for a beginner and I highly recommend it this far. Thank you to whoever developed this app.
I’ve been studying ASL for a couple years, casually. I know a lot, but it’s random, you know?
So I expected the introductory lessons to be basically just silliness for me.
But wow, this app is so rich in content, and does so much repetition.
One of its major strengths is the videos - I still have to use the “slow” feature jut before this app, I just couldn’t follow when other people signed, and now I feel like I might actually be able to be a fluent(ish) signer one day!
Grammar is mostly just built into the lessons themselves, but they’ll also call out specific grammatical with just a few lines on one screen.
I love it so much I bought my daughter her own subscription.
My only real complaint - if you don’t finish a lesson chunk, it doesn’t save your progress like other apps do. Cannot understand why this is.
So it’s great incentive to actually finish little lessons every day!
This could be a great app. I was ready to subscribe and pay the high fee because I like the way it’s set up.
However, going through the free trial showed me it would not be worth the fees… every time a picture won’t load, I’ve submitted error feedback; usually about 30 times per session. It wouldn’t be as bothersome if progress continued, but every time I have to go back to the dashboard to reload my progress is lost. I then have to go through the whole unit again and pray that the pics will load.
Repetition is good, but 30 times over to get through a unit is insane, especially if you’re paying for it.
I have absolutely loved the app. Is there anything beyond module 24?? I want to keep learning new things! I wanted to say that there is an error on the vocabulary trainer. The person in the video is signing converstion-sign and none of the three options given are correct so you can never pass that one off. Also, the word “quiz” is missing a video completely! Little stuff in an otherwise wonderful app. Would love more!
Like many people, I was initially appalled at the price of a subscription to Lingvano. But then I thought about it and realized that you're paying for the quality of the production. And I can tell, from both my experience with the beginning lessons and the intelligently written reviews from people who have subscribed, that this is a very well-produced app. Unfortunately, I still won't be subscribing right now because I have no income and simply can't afford it. 😕 But if and when I have that much money to spend, I will!
I appreciate that this is the only ASL app I've used so far – and I've tried many – that actually acknowledges and explains my seeing different people using different signs for the same word. I used to be much irritated by that, and I saw reviews indicating that many others were as well, but the reality is that different people sign the same words differently, and understanding that is just part of learning ASL. Bravo!
It does have a lot of lessons, and I did enjoy following along, but you can only go through like 90% of less than one before you have a to pay. I really would like to learn sign language and I am I’m sure how else I can do so without an app, but the fact it requires a subscription and not even just a one time payment. It is a barrier for a lot of people the parts I did get to experience were good, but it’s disappointing that it cost money to learn, especially knowing Duolingo is free and that is a language learning app that many people use I wish there was an app like that for sign language so it was more accessible
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