Snapchat has a brand new lens that can assist you be taught the American Sign Language alphabet

Snap is launching a brand new Snapchat lens that may make it easier to be taught American Sign Language (ASL). It’s known as ASL Alphabet Lens, and Snapchat is launching it in partnership with SignAll, an organization that has constructed expertise that may translate signal language.

“Led entirely by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing team members here at Snap called the ‘Deafengers’, the ASL Alphabet Lens teaches you to fingerspell your name, practice the ASL Alphabet, and play games that put new skills to the test,” Snap said in a blog post.

You can attempt the lens from this link, which ought to open in Snapchat if in case you have the app in your cellphone. I performed round for it for a couple of minutes and was fairly impressed. The lesson I attempted taught me to fingerspell the alphabet. Holding my cellphone in a single hand, I’d signal with the opposite by mimicking the hand shapes proven on display. The lens additionally gives a instrument that can assist you fingerspell phrases and one that can assist you memorize which handshapes are which letter.

Snapchat additionally launched stickers and AR lenses with SignAll in September for the International Week of the Deaf.