[nabs-l] Learning a foreign language

[Nijat Worley]

Hi Joe,
   Thank you for the tips. I will try them to see if I can get it to
work. Thanks again for the suggestions.
   Nijat


On 7/20/09, Joseph C. Lininger <jbahm at pcdesk.net> wrote:
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> Nijat,
>
> Below I have quoted part of your message and then answered your
> questions below the quote.
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>> This is great, but for some strange reason it does not read Russian
>> websites
>> in Russian. I think JAWS has an automatic language recognition feature
>> that should
>> recognize the Russian language, and switch to it at once. Do any of you
>> know why
>> JAWS is not reading the websites in Russian?
>
> In fact, I do know why. You're probably missing one of the ingredients
> to get that to work. A few things have to be true in order to switch
> languages on the fly like that.
>
> 1. You must have a Russian language synthesizer installed. You've
> already met this requirement.
>
> 2. I believe you need to have Russian language support installed in
> Windows. This one you probably haven't done.
>
> 3. The site has to identify itself as a Russian language site. Not all
> sites will do that.
>
> I haven't ever tried to do this myself, but this is my understanding of
> what one must do to make it work.
>
>> I am also trying to find the international Braille code so that I can
>> learn Russian
>> Braille. I understand that they use the same Braille as we do, however,
>> they have
>> more letters in their alphabet than we do, so some of our contractions
>> become letters
>
> I won't venture a guess on this one, prefering to leave it in the hands
> of someone more qualified to answer.
> Joe
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