A Discord Bot that Teaches ASL

This is a submission for the Built with Google Gemini: Writing Challenge What I Built with Google Gemini I go to RIT, a school in New York State that shares a campus with the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). I really wanted to learn ASL, but the learning resources online were either unnecessarily time-intensive, behind a paywall, or both. I could have spent 30 hours learning ASL from YouTube, but I'm a programmer, so instead I spend 3 months developing a Discord bot that uses basic language acquisition principles to quickly make the user functionally conversational in ASL such that they can effectively communicate. The bot intentionally doesn't teach deaf culture or slang because I believe that knowledge is best acquired by interacting with the real ASL community, so I decided to prioritize basic vocabulary and syntax and rely on the user to meet and talk to those who are more embedded in the culture using these basic tools. The hardest part of this bot was creating a