Do you want to volunteer to add your mother tongue or hand signs? Comment here to say which language or hand signs you want to add then ... download this Android app that volunteers use to add their's. Follow the screen shots and pdf below for adding.

1) Add your language data. See a screen shot description of adding your mother tongue using the hhr-odk_collect app here

http://www.hishandsreader.org/add-your-mother-tongue-demo.html

** note: In order to get good quality voice recording you will want to download the free voice recording app called "RecForge II Lite".

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dje073.android.modernrecforge&hl=en

Hint: To get good recordings do these...
a) record in a quiet place.
b) speak like you are speaking to someone across the table
c) position your mouth about 1.5 feet from the phone speaker
d) try to start saying the word right after pressing the button.. then press off with in one second after saying the word.

2) Save your work. When filling out a form that has data to input... you can save your work, close the form, and later return to where you left off and or make corrections.

3) Upload data process.
Send me an email BobAchgill@HisHandsReader.org and tell me what language or hand signs you are adding. When you are finished adding zip up the directory and send to me via a Telegram message ...

ODK/Instances


4) When you are finished adding your language or hand signs. When you have finished checking your work save and ...
Send me an email to say that you have finished entering your form data. BobAchgill@HisHandsReader.org

Then I will turn your work into a video dictionary and video reading primers.

The His Hands Reader mother tongue literacy project provides free quad-lingual literacy support for 1742 meanings.

Choose a curriculum from the list below and begin learning to read your mother tongue, business and English languages with local hand sign assist. Yes, the Deaf can learn to read, also!

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Under construction! The curriculum below without links will be added soon.

af - afghanistan

[afg - Afghan Sign Language] [prs - Dari] [arb - Arabic]


cm - cameroon

[cm1 - Cameroon Sign Language] [fra - French] [spa - Spanish]


cn - china

[cn9 - Changsha Sign Language] [cmn - Chinese Mandarin] [cn1 - Chengdu Mandarin]

[cn9 - Changsha Sign Language] [cmn - Chinese Mandarin] [npi - Nepali]

[cn9 - Changsha Sign Language] [cmn - Chinese Mandarin] [yue - Chinese Yue]


fr - france

[jos - Jordan Sign Language] [fra - French] [arb - Arabic]


de - germany

[afg - Afghan Sign Language] [deu - German] [prs - Dari]

[jos - Jordan Sign Language] [deu - German] [arb - Arabic]



il - israel

[jos - Jordan Sign Language] [heb - Hebrew] [arb - Arabic]

[jos - Jordan Sign Language] [heb - Hebrew] [fra - French]

[jos - Jordan Sign Language] [heb - Hebrew] [rus - Russian]


jo - jordan

[jos - Jordan Sign Language] [arb - Arabic] [ajp - Jordan Arabic]


np - nepal

[cn9 - Changsha Sign Language] [npi - Nepali] [thl - Tharu]


tj - tajikistan

[cn9 - Changsha Sign Language] [tgk - Tajik] [cmn - Chinese ~~ Mandarin]

[jos - Jordan Sign Language] [tgk - Tajik] [heb - Modern Hebrew]

[afg - Afghan Sign Language] [tgk - Tajik] [prs - Dari]

[afg - Afghan Sign Language] [tgk - Tajik] [rus - Russian]


Don't see your language or hand signs in the list above? Become a volunteer and add your mother tongue or hand signs using the Android app. It only takes 30 hours. Click here to ADD your language?!

His Hands Reader presentation (http://www.hishandsreader.org/2020.html) at the World Literacy Summit 2020 by Bob Achgill.


Note to Android users: Go to Telegram in applications settings and change Storage location to external SD if you have one. This will make sure the videos do not take up your internal memory.