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Hey Cekncen, thank for the reply. I'm on pt 5 of the 150 essential signs, they are great videos! looking for some real people to practice what I've learned with

This is super awesome! i'm on my chromebook so I can't join now but I will ABSOLUTELY!!! Be joining this! sounds like fun!

I made an ASL discord server. It has a teen only area and an adult area as well as sections for beginners, intermediate, advanced, and fluent as well as a mixed level and age area. I hope to see y’all there so that we learn, practice, and grow together. https://discord.gg/CmQrzAhf

I just got 45! I'm getting really good I feel! I always like to find a good speed, then just read off the letters as they come up, and spell the word, then once i'm good at recognizing what letter it is, I try to pronounce the word as it comes through, I find that helps the most when it comes to learning with this game! hopefully I can get to 50 in 2 mins by the end of the week.

Hi Raf! Nice to meet you. This is definitely the right place to learn sign, but I also heavily recommend Learn How To Sign on YouTube for the first basic beginner signs and sentences. Meredith, the host, is an excellent educator and does a great job. Good luck!

Nice! i really do recommend this site for receptive spelling practice, its really good to be able to read signs, and i use a word generator occasionally to practice my own fingerspelling, i generate a word and spell it out, for accuracy and a little speed. if you ever wanna practice feel free to shoot me a message!

Sweet thanks a lot! I know basic the basics. the Alphabet, i've been practicing finger spelling a lot, a pretty limited vocabulary but I can express basic ideas, introduce myself, etc.

Awesome name Raf! How far in have you got so far? I wouldn't mind pitching in any help or advice I can give. good luck on your learning journey! I bet you'll have a great time.

Hi everybody! I'm Raf, I very recently started learning ASL and I'm looking for people to practice with and hopefully make some friends feel free to shoot me a message, I'd appreciate any help I can get!

I think something that helps deaf people to "hear" what people are saying could definitely work. I'm not super sure on this, but from what I've researched there are glasses that caption what other people are saying. I was thinking something like that could work, or another idea I had was that the gloves detect what is being said, and turns that into a series of pulses or some sort of sensory input onto the fingertips, kind of like reading braille. The problem with that idea though is that the user would have to know braille, so it might not work super well.

That sounds interesting. This is the first time I've ever heard of this, so the concept sounds intriguing. Given I'm hearing, I don't know how the deaf community feels about it, but the concept seems more skewed towards the benefit of hearing people. Maybe, if you could figure out a way to also make a program of sorts that could help deaf people "hear" [or, rather see] what hearing people are saying without a translator, that would be awesome. How about the concept of an app or website that is paired with the gloves that can also translate speaking to sign. I know sign is a very intricate language, so it'd really take some thinking about, but if you added the double benefit I think your idea could really take off!

Hello everybody, at the school I attend we are going to be doing a year+ long project about whatever we want, and for my project I thought it would be cool to make sign language gloves. I originally had this idea before I knew that people had already tried this, but after researching it a little I had some concerns, mostly because it seems like this idea is found offensive to people in the deaf/hard of hearing community. I feel that my idea differs from others enough that I wanted to get feedback. I would like to say that I was thinking that the person using these gloves would be someone who is biologically mute, but can still hear, and it would be used in situations such as a court. I have a friend who's father is a nurse, and what he told me is that they have to pay translators around $100 or more an hour, and even if they don't use them for that whole hour, they still have to pay them that much. The purpose I am intending with the gloves is to reduce costs for the business, and cut out the middleman. I know that sign language is more than just hang gestures, so I would also try and figure out a way to record expressions and other important movements. As part of our project we also have a stakeholder, or someone who would benefit from our project, and I was going to make sure that it involves someone form the ASL community. What are your guys thoughts on this, and if this is a good idea, what should I do to make sure its actually helpful. Sorry if anything I said was offensive in any way, and thanks for your guys input.

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Hey, good job! 37 is really impressive.

I just got 37 lets go!!

felt! A lot of my laid back chill teachers think it's funny that I talk to my friends across the room with it.

I really enjoy the fingerspelling game! I'm getting pretty good at it too, it's really helping me with the receptive part of sign, because receptive is just as important as expressive.

I'm super excited to start doing this! right now I'm a junior in high school. last year during my second semester of my sophomore year I took an ASL class, I got the joy of meeting my super awesome SEE ASL teacher. I was taught SEE, so exact english, but I know a lot of signs and can pick it up easily. She unfortunately retired, and we only have one year of SEE available. If I could have taken another level I would have, still, I kept all of our lesson signs, and I'm looking into getting a SEE dictionary. I'm so glad to continue learning, and this site is one of my favorites. I'm excited to hopefully get to work with all sorts of people and continue to learn and grow my knowledge of sign.

I’d love to practice with you if you’re still interested!

Hi so little about me: -I live in the US -I’m in high school -I’ve been slowly learning sign since eighth grade i really love learning sign! Before I thought I wasn’t good with languages because of my inability to pick up Spanish, but since sign is kinetic it was a good “beginner language”. I’m close to finishing my online asl 2 course and I don’t want to lose my ability to speak in sign, so I was hoping to find someone who I could sign with time to time wether it’s through videos or video chats. Anyways thanks for reading my ramble

How do you use the video chat rooms? It seems to not show anything when i join or create a room

Those are so pretty! love the colors too!

ive always seen ASL as a beautiful langue!!

Hi Victoria, same here i'm in the same boat! I relate to that situation. I just logged on here and now I'd love to find some community!