Good signers, mediocre app
The signers do a good job. However, the app itself is dot very well organized and makes it hard to learn from.
I’m just starting to learn and there are lots of pieces here that would be useful, ABCs, for example. There are even different ways of viewing the ABCs - just the hand, the hand with the person’s shoulder (to see more of the arm movement for certain letters), or the hand and the face. The problem is that they go through the entire alphabet in one go, you can’t pick a single letter to practice. Furthermore, if you want to have it repeat a certain letter it repeats the entire scene, back to A again. And there’s no “pause” button. This makes learning very frustrating.
The topic based sections are also well signed, but again suffer from navigation problems - there’s no way of seeing a list of all phrases in a section, you have to page through each one at a time.
I do like the fact there’s a turtle / slow mode which affects all videos, but it isn’t clear that when you play a video and want to replay it that you must then click the turtle button, not the regular repeat button.
In short, the UI needs a lot of work to be usable, and I hope some day it will be. Until then, I’ll be looking for another app.
I’m just starting to learn and there are lots of pieces here that would be useful, ABCs, for example. There are even different ways of viewing the ABCs - just the hand, the hand with the person’s shoulder (to see more of the arm movement for certain letters), or the hand and the face. The problem is that they go through the entire alphabet in one go, you can’t pick a single letter to practice. Furthermore, if you want to have it repeat a certain letter it repeats the entire scene, back to A again. And there’s no “pause” button. This makes learning very frustrating.
The topic based sections are also well signed, but again suffer from navigation problems - there’s no way of seeing a list of all phrases in a section, you have to page through each one at a time.
I do like the fact there’s a turtle / slow mode which affects all videos, but it isn’t clear that when you play a video and want to replay it that you must then click the turtle button, not the regular repeat button.
In short, the UI needs a lot of work to be usable, and I hope some day it will be. Until then, I’ll be looking for another app.
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Amazing!
This is great, and I wish there was a BSL version (I wanna learn both)
$10 is relative.
How can you people complain about $10 for knowledge. I always wanted to learn ASL but never made it a priority. When I found out I had to have a medical procedure that laid me up for a week, I said what a great opportunity. I went to five used book stores and bought all I could on ASL. Then a new book store and bought one more. I was looking forward to my week of learning. I am a mechanic and work on Deaf people’s car from time to time. I can’t wait to surprise them. My weekly tool bill for the personal tools I buy is $130. That’s every WEEK. $10 is relatively cheap for me. I got my monies worth from the free stuff before I bought the extra.
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Only 3 stars because I purchased...
I purchased this app for something like $8.99 a year or so ago and after forgetting about it for awhile, I decided to make more of an effort to use it. Now I’m seeing almost all the content has “but” buttons and there is a google banner at the bottom. What gives? I’ll upgrade my review if I get a reasonable answer. The only content I have access to is numbers, ABC, one set of very basic basics, and some hand exercises. Not worth nearly $10 bucks.
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Great for beginners buts needs extra features
It’s a great app for anyone is trying to learn a little sign language for fun but it needs more. Some way of testing the signs you’ve been practicing would be very helpful for retention. There is definitely room for more categories of signs as well. If it’s feasible maybe even taking the total signs in all categories and making a search feature that’s alphabetically organized. It would help a lot of with looking up a sign you’re trying to find.
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Like it a lot
I really do like the app. I have been wanting to learn sign language for our church. I upgraded and purchased all the packs but I was disappointed that there aren’t any signs for words you might hear in church or during praise and worship songs or hymns. I was specifically looking for signs for Christmas Carols. I’ll still use the app because I like the way the signs are taught but it would be nice if you included signs for Biblical text as well as worship songs. Thanks for considering adding this information.
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This app is great!
Keep in mind i have not bought the full app for all the bundles but as soon as i get the money to I am defiantly going to purchase this full ASL app because even the free version is amazingly helpful! The one thing i wish it did was turn horizontally so i can look at it all on my IPad Pro in all ways. But other then that this is still an amazing app!
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Love it
I love this app
I paid for the full version, and it was a great decision. I use it every day, and I learned so much since I started using it!
I recommend it
I paid for the full version, and it was a great decision. I use it every day, and I learned so much since I started using it!
I recommend it
No religion category but helpful when they rarely do have the sign you’re looking for.
I can’t really pull myself to understand why this app doesn’t take its time to have at least a religious category. Signs like “Jesus” and “God” are essential for a $10 in app purchase. The app tools it’s time to make an LGBTQ category because the ASL app wants to teach us that equality is only necessary when convenient to them. It is not that hard to expand the dictionary that you’re app has by adding signs like God, Buddha, Islam, Koran, Bible, gospel, and covenant. Things like that will be worth you’re wile. Overall this is a helpful app but not helpful when you might as well look up most things on google. I would like to have my learning in one place. Thank You the ASL app for taking my opinion into consideration!
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Stopped working
This has totally stopped working with the new iPad iOS please fix. It was a great app
