[Sw-l] Lessons in SignWriting — Interactive Edition

[Amit Moryossef]

Hi all,

When I first started learning SignWriting, I came across the *Lessons in
SignWriting* 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.

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.

Over the past few months, I have been working on a new version of the book,
which I call the *Interactive Edition*. It aims to remain mostly faithful
to the original material while adding interactive elements:

   - Hover over most signs to watch Adam sign them.
   - Hover over handshapes to see the corresponding real hand.
   - Hover over many other SignWriting symbols to view example videos.
   - Use the 3D viewer to understand how movement arrows represent motion
   in three dimensions.
   - *Practice* reading, and writing, with games sprinkled throughout.

You can explore it here:
https://research.sign.mt/lessons-in-signwriting/

I made a walkthrough video explaining it
https://supercut.ai/share/rylo/7F83XmIEOSlxO5Rw5kdeRH

I hope you find it a useful extension of the original material. The project
is open source and available here:
https://github.com/sign-language-processing/lessons-in-signwriting
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.

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.

Best,
Amit
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