<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">SignWriting List<div>June 22, 2026</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Amit!</div><div>Thank you for this wonderful gift. And thank you Adam for all the work you have done on this book. And thanks to Lucinda and Kevin as well. </div><div><br></div><div>This is an exciting new development!</div><div><br></div><div>Val 😊</div><div><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 22, 2026, at 4:52 AM, Amit Moryossef <amitmoryossef@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p>Hi all,</p>
<p>When I first started learning SignWriting, I came across the <span><i>Lessons in SignWriting</i></span> book. It is a wonderful resource, but as a beginner—and without any background in ASL at the time—I struggled to fully understand it.</p>
<p>The book could show me SignWriting, but I wanted to see the pages come alive. I wanted to see people signing, understand how the written forms corresponded to real movement, and explore the symbols interactively.</p>
<p>Over the past few months, I have been working on a new version of the book, which I call the <span><i>Interactive Edition</i></span>. It aims to remain mostly faithful to the original material while adding interactive elements:</p>
<ul><li>Hover over most signs to watch Adam sign them.</li><li>Hover over handshapes to see the corresponding real hand.</li><li>Hover over many other SignWriting symbols to view example videos.</li><li>Use the 3D viewer to understand how movement arrows represent motion in three dimensions.</li><li><b>Practice</b> reading, and writing, with games sprinkled throughout.</li></ul>
<p>You can explore it here:<br>
<a href="https://research.sign.mt/lessons-in-signwriting/" target="_blank">https://research.sign.mt/lessons-in-signwriting/</a></p><p>I made a walkthrough video explaining it <a href="https://supercut.ai/share/rylo/7F83XmIEOSlxO5Rw5kdeRH">https://supercut.ai/share/rylo/7F83XmIEOSlxO5Rw5kdeRH</a> </p>
<p>I hope you find it a useful extension of the original material. The project is open source and available here: <a href="https://github.com/sign-language-processing/lessons-in-signwriting" target="_blank">https://github.com/sign-language-processing/lessons-in-signwriting</a> <span style="background-color:transparent">Contributions, corrections, and suggestions are very welcome. The goal is to create a resource that clearly presents the full system and is useful to both new learners and experienced SignWriting users.</span></p>
<p>As always, this work would not have been possible without the previous work, and contributions of many people—especially Valerie, Adam, Steve, Lucinda, and Kevin.</p>
<p>Best,<br>
Amit</p></div>
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