From your first sign to reading real conversation.
Four levels. The early ones build vocabulary the way it's actually used; the later ones tackle what every app skips — directional verbs, classifiers, role shift — the grammar that separates “knows some signs” from “can hold a conversation.” Each lesson pairs a few signs with one idea, and ends with a drill scoped to exactly those signs.
Foundations
Your first signs, the alphabet, and the three parts every sign is built from.
1.Greetings & courtesy
The first exchange: please, sorry, thank you — and why two of them are near-identical.
2.Family & the gendered space
Mother, father, girl, boy — and the invisible rule that organizes them all.
3.Food & drink
Eating, drinking, and a sign that's secretly a fossil of two older signs.
4.Feelings
Happy, sad, cry — where emotion lives on the body, and on the face.
5.Colors
Eight colors — and the borrowing pattern that explains most of them.
6.The body
Ten body parts, almost all of them pointing — and why that's still worth a lesson.
7.At home
The house, the things in it, and the noun-verb pattern hiding in CHAIR.
8.Feelings & states
Hungry, thirsty, sleepy, sick, mad — everyday states, and the handshape family behind several of them.
Everyday ASL
Questions, description, and the facial grammar that turns signs into sentences.
1.Asking questions
WH-words, yes/no, and the eyebrows that make a question a question.
2.Animals
A themed set that doubles as handshape practice.
3.Describing things
Size, color, temperature — and how degree lives in the movement.
4.More animals
Fourteen animals, each named by one feature — and a few honest 'we don't know's.
5.Extended family
Brother, sister, grandparents, aunt, uncle — the gender map from Level 1, put to work.
6.Everyday actions
Look, listen, give, have, read, open, close — and your first classifiers.
7.Outdoors & weather
Rain, snow, sun, moon, trees and flowers — signs that draw the world in the air.
8.Describing things, continued
Opposites in pairs — loud and quiet, wet and dry, clean and dirty, good and bad.
Structure
How ASL organizes space and time — directional verbs, classifiers, and sequencing.
1.Directional verbs
Verbs that carry who-did-what-to-whom in their movement — no pronouns needed.
2.Time & sequence
The timeline in space, and using FINISH to mark completed action.
3.Pronouns & pointing
Me, my, you, we, and he-she-it — how ASL points instead of naming, and why gender drops out.
Toward conversation
Role shifting, narrative, and reading real signing at real speed.