[nabs-l] grade 3 braille

[Carly Mihalakis]

Hi, Sami,

         Grade 3 is even more deeply contracted than is Grade 2  and 
is used primarily for personal correspondence and notetaking 
purposes. Learn it if you can!
for today, Car
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as far as I know is used for personal correspondence and 
notetaking  a syAt 06:23 PM 2/3/2014, David Andrews wrote:
>Grade 3 Braille has lots of abbreviations.  It is basically a 
>Braille shorthand.  There aren't a lot of teaching materials, and 
>nothing regularly printed in it.  It was never widely used.
>
>Dave
>
>At 07:45 PM 2/3/2014, you wrote:
>>Hi All.
>>
>>I am creating this topic further to Dave's post about NFB training 
>>centers, who said that he learned Grade 3 Braille in those  centers.
>>I didn't want to post this in that topic so as not to go off-topic.
>>So I would like to know, could someone try to explain how this 
>>works? Because to be honest, this is the first time that I'm 
>>hereing about it.  Was this only discovered recently? Does it have, 
>>say, more contractions then grade 2 braille uses?
>>I'm sure that I'll be able to understand your explanations about 
>>it, because I have been using braille for quite a long time (since 
>>I was in kindergarten, and now I'm in 11th grade).  I don't think 
>>I've learned grade 2 braille when I first sttted to learn braille, 
>>but I have been using grade 2 braille for as long as I can 
>>remember, and am therefore very good at it, if I say so myself.
>>Not only that, but I just finished the course on Braille music at 
>>my music school.
>>I hope you'll be able to explain how Grade 3 Braille works.
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Sami.
>
>
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