[nabs-l] learning arabic or chinese

[Franandah Damstra]

Hello,
Well, I've been learning Japanese since I was twelve and they use
braille as well. Sadly, it is quiete a  long process. They first
translate the kanji (The picture writing taken from the Chinese) and
turn it into Kana (A  mix of Hiragana, which is used for non kanji
words and for young children, and Katagana, which is used for foreign
words with Japanese pronunciation.) After that it is translated into
Braille. The Braille however, is quite complicated and I have yet to
master it. I am much better at understanding, and then speaking the
language. In this case, I'm grateful for a  screen reader.


On 8/1/09, Eliza Cooper <eliza.l.cooper at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ben and all,
> 	Very good point, and please understand that I meant absolutely no
> offense by my choice of the term "non-standard."  I simply used it as
> a way to differentiate between the American english alphabet (i.e.,
> the Latin one, as you pointed out) and those of other languages.  Poor
> wording, admittedly.
> 	Thanks,
> 	Eliza
>
>
> On Aug 1, 2009, at 1:43 AM, Ben J. Bloomgren wrote:
>
>> Hello Eliza,
>>
>> I am not a speaker of any language with an alphabet other than
>> latin. Please
>> be careful with the word nonstandard. It's only nonstandard to those
>> of us
>> whose languages use the Latin alphabet. To Nimer, the Arabic
>> alphabet is
>> standard and ours is nonstandard. Anyway, Jaws does have Realspeak
>> solo
>> direct voices for Russian, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Korean,
>> Japanese and Greek as well as Czech and Polish, whose versions of
>> the Latin
>> alphabet has some other diacritical marks that must have special
>> treatment.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
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