NZSL Dictionary

NZSL Online

About this app

New Zealand Sign Language Dictionary contains 4500+ multimedia, multilingual dictionary entries.

A "Word of the Day" feature introduces you to a new vocabulary word every day.

All the diagrams are built in to the application so they can be viewed offline. To view the videos, an active Internet connection is required.

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Ratings and reviews

I used this app every day up until recently when videos stopped working. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app but no luck. My phone is pretty new so I don't think it's my phone at fault. Seeing the reviews shows I'm not the only one having this issue. Will definitely bump my rating up when this is fixed but at the moment the pictures by them selves are not overly useful.

I love this app. The videos are really helpful. Is it possible to share the favourite pictures and videos to groups of people on platforms like messenger? We are starting to use some NZSL in our Playcentre and it would be great to be able to print out the words we are learning and to share the videos.

I'm really surprised at how lame this app is compared to apps for other non-NZ sign language. The pictures are ok but the videos are way to short... the sign should be repeated 2-3 times and done slow and clear! A quick 2 sec sign is so inadequate. And it needs more info to explain different signs for the same word, ie "flower" is there twice with 2 different signs. "Dirty" has 3 different signs. Without explanation (eg is it a noun or verb etc) it's pretty useless.

What's new

Re-instate favourites functionality: Tap the 'Star' button in the app to find out more about how favourites work and start adding your favourite signs! You may notice that we request a new permission for this update - "Write External Storage". We ask for this permission so that we can store sign videos. Only the signs you have picked as favourites will be stored, and you can clear these signs at any time to remove the corresponding files.