Hardcore ASL with Janna M. Sweenie, MA and David W. Boles, MFA

CHARTER SCHOOL ONLINE TEACHING:
If you are a Charter School seeking online American Sign Language courses for your students, we can help you from afar as we have helped many others before you! We teach your students one-on-on. We have flexible semesters, and a rolling enrollment. We can start a course at any time you're ready. Students can finish a"Charter School level" in six weeks or 12 weeks. You decide. We teach. Please get in touch with us via the e-mail link at the bottom of this page for more information, or click on the "Call Me" button below to get started now!

NEW YORK CITY AREA IN-PERSON TEACHING:
We are pleased to announce we are taking our Hardcore ASL teaching system to CUNY-SPS (City University of New York-School of Professional Studies). You can now take ASL I and ASL II with us in person, for transcript credit, in New York Cit -- and you do not have to be a matriculated student at CUNY to study with us. Read more about current CUNY-SPS courses offered on our Classes page.

Be sure to join our Hardcore ASL discussion group on LinkedIn!

ONLINE ASL CLASSES NOW AVAILABLE!
We offer you private, intimate, one-one-on one ASL courses on an intensive and compressed, hardcore, level without leaving the comfort of your home. Our classes are as demanding as any in-person course. You will get the same quality teaching our students and/or staff have taken in person at New York University, Montclair State University, the College of New Rochelle, LaGuardia College, Lehman College, Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and the Hotel Macklowe. We also provide ASL tutoring services and fluency examinations. To understand our mission here, make sure you read this article about How to Find the Right ASL Teacher and this article investigating the difference between being an interpreter and a clarifier.

Our newest outreach program is -- sosASL.com -- an emergency website portal the Deaf can use to communicate with Hearing first responders like firefighters, police officers, EMTs and hospital staff.

Using American Sign Language images, and text in English and other languages, sosASL.com is a quick and clickable solution to an urgent problem that will help keep the lines of communication alive until a certified interpreter appears on scene.

If you are interested in helping us spread the word about sosASL.com please visit the site and get in touch with us!

Janna M. Sweenie, M.A. and David W. Boles, M.F.A. are your Hardcore ASL instructors!

We are pleased to announce our book on American Sign Language is available for purchase: Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1.

You can buy the book right now from Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble and your local bookstore.

You will learn 90 words and then create over 27,000 ASL phrases using our new "Pick and Say Rubric."

The ASL language book is full-color on every glossy printed page.

The book is published by Thomson/Cengage Learning and we can't wait for you to read it and watch the Bonus DVD bundled with the book!

The book is available in bookstores everywhere and for purchase online.

Hardcore ASL is where the inspired Janna M. Sweenie, MA and the polymathic David W. Boles, MFA teach American Sign Language to the strictest standards based on the genesis of the language.

Hardcore ASL uses a methodology for teaching that will bring a return to the hardcore basics of American Sign Language.

We are not an interpreting service though we do provide support for interpreters and interpreter issues.

Bad Baby Signs: Words No Infant Should Know! is our latest project-in-progress where you will find a laugh and a guffaw on every page.

Join us as we take a irreverent, in-depth, look at the wacky Baby Signs phenomenon and we set the whole cultural industry of "mini-ASL" on its bouncing baby head!

We are thrilled to announce we have online ASL courses you can take with us right now!

Here's a free online sample of how we teach Hardcore ASL in our books, workshops, in person and online: "Gosh, I found a bug in my soup, take it back!"

Click here for an "in process" look at our book, Hand Jive: American Sign Language for Real Life" published by Barnes & Noble!

Click around our site to discover how best we can serve you and you can email us your thoughts and needs!