[nabs-l] Information about Italian

[Mary Fernandez]

Hey Min,
I took Italian and French in college with just a Braillenote and my
laptop so it's doable. Much like you, in high school I always had my
French books in Braille. For Italian, I was lucky because our text
book was actually an E-Text that we bought online. Then you could
download the chapters in a pdf. I'd take that pdf and run it through
Kurzweil and then just convert the file into rtf and put it in my
braillenote. If you're book isn't an E-text, go ahead and start
working on your disability service office to scan it for you. If they
don't have anyone they use for this, AMAC is a good resource. Also,
you might try looking in the STEP program website to see if they have
your textbook. STEP is a project between Course Smart and AMAC that
allows you to rent accessible text books online.
I also did homework and quizzes on my Braillenote. My professor
created all of her assignment online so she would just email them to
me. Actually, most students in my class did all their work online,
since the E-textbook had a workbook portion that you had to type up
and then print. So, go ahead and talk to your professor now about what
you need, and talk to your office of disabilities.
Good luck, and feel free to email me if you have further questions.
Mary

On 8/3/12, Patrick Molloy <ptrck.molloy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Minh,
> If you have a BrailleNote, you can set the language setting to Italian
> and then type like you would in English. Not knowing Italian, I don't
> know which letters are accented or not, but if you set your computer
> braille table to Italian and then set the computer braille to 8-dot,
> you should have no problem with the accents.
>
> For the book or books that you'll use, here's what I did with my
> Spanish books freshman year. Have your disabilities office scan them,
> then read them either on your computer or BrailleNote. Hope this
> helps.
> Patrick
>
> On 8/3/12, minh ha <minh.ha927 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am going to be taking an Elementary Italian course in the fall and
>> was wondering if you guys have any experience with Italian braille.
>> I'm super excited to learn Italian but not quite sure how I might
>> tackle this in college. In high school, I took Spanish and always have
>> braille books, but obtaining a copy in braille for Italian might be
>> challenging. I am going to be using a braille note however so any
>> information on this would be  most appreciated
>>
>> Thank you for your assistance
>> Minh
>>
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